by Laura
Today I finally finished a monster paper that I had been furiously working on for the past several days. Because of this monster, I was unable to take the time to go the campus wide study break last night. Of course, never one to turn down free food, Harold went in my stead. He [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘College Life’
December 11, 2009
Does Your Study Area Face a Door, Window, or Other Distractions?
October 25, 2009
Mission Stay On Couch=Epic Fail
by Laura
Anticipating a few days without visitors, we decided to stay local for fall break and attempt to do absolutely nothing. However, Harold discovered that it was Parent’s Weekend at Duke, and the related events were right about at our current hipness level. Besides, this meant reaping all the benefits of the free dessert reception [...]
October 10, 2009
RDWe’reBetterThanU
by Laura
The Daily Beast recently revealed a ranked list of the country’s smartest places. Apparently, I should pat myself on the back for choosing to be a part of the most intelligent metro area of them all – the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill trifecta of awesome.
October 6, 2009
UNC Media Center, I Blame You
by Laura
I knew I should never have trusted a lighter shade of blue. At Duke, our library provided a model academic climate. We had books, study rooms for the serious learner, coffee shops with comfy chairs for the slightly less focused (me) – and in general, a fine aura of Knowledge.
UNC’s library, on the other [...]
September 26, 2009
Overheard in the Halls: Homecoming Edition
by Laura
Harold will be updating the blog with his Homecoming report shortly – but in the meantime, here’s a few highlights:
A Half-Century Club member after my own heart, commenting on a lecture about reading:
“For me the library is like the bar on Cheers – I go there because everybody knows my name.”
A library tour guide [...]
September 23, 2009
What Will They Think of Next?
by Laura
Back in 2000, Duke did some remodeling and unveiled an improved K-ville*. The campus was especially in awe of the ethernet connections in the lamp posts. This provided a much-needed way to connect laptops to the Web, because the primary concern of students seeking basketball tickets was ensuring proper completion of their homework. Also, [...]
September 21, 2009
Is UNC Really the Pits? (Hardy-Har, Har)
by Laura
Some readers have been begging us* for more insight into life at Carolina, especially versus Duke. Since I went to Duke as an undergrad, you will naturally have concluded that I will be much too busy polishing my Porsche to discuss this topic further.
It is true that instead of writing this blog post, [...]
August 26, 2009
It Wouldn’t be Back to School…
by Laura
…without an a capella showcase to start off the semester right.
Several alarming items to report:
Christian a capella groups are still ruining songs you used to like by turning lines about love and being alive into messages for God. Especially creepy when the lines originally had sexual undertones.
When other students in the audience [...]
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