HC DUKE BLOG
Friday, May 4, 2012
Nostalgia has officially kicked in.
I can’t believe our first year at Duke is coming to a close. Classes have officially ended, we had our first LDOC experience, and now it’s time to buckle down and take final exams. My mom just called me about plans for packing up the car in a few days… wait, what? Where has the time gone??
It seems like everywhere I turn,...
Monday, April 30, 2012
So my dinner consisted of 5 courses, 4 of which may have been dessert… #SorryI’mNotSorry
It is that dreaded time of year again… no not finals (as if those are hard). I am talking about something far more terrifying: bikini season.
I knew something strange was going on when I was at dinner the other evening and my suggestion to get LOYO was met by complete...
Saturday, April 28, 2012
As a stereotypical girl, I love any chick flick, no matter how miserable the acting is or how predictable the storyline is. I like to tell myself that I learn something from these films. I analyze their personalities, their reactions, and their outfits - I train myself to understand what different scenarios with the opposite sex mean.
From When Harry Met Sally I told myself to keep my...
Thursday, April 26, 2012
It’s that time of year. The time of year when there is an abundance of wide-eyed high school seniors on campus with maps, cameras, and name badges. Oh, hey, prospective students, welcome to Duke!
I remember being a p-frosh… walking around campus during Blue Devil Days pretending I was a student, sitting in on classes, and having lunch in the Great Hall. Those were good times. Times...
Sunday, April 22, 2012
It’s the Last Day of Classes, so you better make it last. Once April 25th is over, hell week begins and you won’t be seeing the light of day much less another human being, especially a male human being…unless you’re both in the stacks…late at night with no one else around…#graduationrequirement.
But that’s the ideal situation and we all...
Friday, April 20, 2012
The countdown has officially started and everyone’s buzzing about the events planned for this year’s last day of classes. As freshmen, LDOC remains a complete mystery. We all have these elaborate portraits that we’ve painted in our heads of what we think LDOC will be like, but we won’t actually know until we experience it ourselves. Luckily for us, it’s just a few...
Thursday, April 19, 2012
My fellow colleague and I were astounded to walk into her apartment this week to find 7 whole boxes of Crystal Light Hard Candies—little did we know, this was to be one of the best decisions we ever made. These candies are awesome. Seriously. We’re all familiar with Crystal Light (I have one friend who religiously used it as a mixer during pregame her entire sophomore year) as a...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
We have all experienced for ourselves or heard stories about the deliciously infamous, the legendarily beautiful, LDOC: the day you won’t remember but will never forget.
As Duke students, we live our lives by the motto “work hard, party hard.” However, LDOC is the one day when we can all say, “F*ck working hard, I’m just gonna party hard all d*mn...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
My love of cooking definitely comes from the experiences I had cooking with my mom back at home, and even more so from the incredible responses she always received for her signature dishes (hi Mom!). One dish that really stuck with me (even though we only made it once or twice) was quinoa-stuffed peppers, inspired by a recipe we found on the Whole Foods website.
[Aside: if you ever have a food...
Monday, April 16, 2012
Dear roomie, I turned our floor into my personal closet… as well as my chair… and your chair… and the futon… #SorryI’mNotSorry
You may be that girl who wakes up every day and spends hours picking out your outfit each morning (just to go sit through a 75 minute History lecture). I mean, could you imagine if that cute guy in your class saw you looking less than...
