Just got back from an absolutely amazing lecture by Salman Rushdie, who gave the Franklin Humanities Institute’s Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities (event link here). His lecture was entitled “Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in the Modern World.” Some notable quotes (and I’m recalling this from memory ~1.5 hours after the fact, so forgive [...]
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Salman Rushdie
Posted: April 13, 2011 in Diya, DukeTags: Duke, Franklin Humanities Institute, Salman Rushdie
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The Fall Semester
Posted: November 12, 2010 in Duke, International Politics, PoliticsTags: DIRA, DISC, DISC 2010, Duke, Duke International Security Conference, North Korea, Pakistan
Haven’t posted in a while. What can I say? My life has been pretty tame in the past few weeks months. Let’s see…where did I leave off? Oh yeah – Dad and I had just come back from Costa Rica, bruised and beaten and feeling great. Then it’s off to Project Waves in beautiful Beaufort, [...]
NCAA National Champions
Posted: April 8, 2010 in DukeTags: DIRA, DISC, Duke, Duke Basketball, NCAA Champions, Pollen
Elephant in the room – DUKE BLUE DEVILS ARE NCAA 2010 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!! WOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Speaking of elephants, Duke Diya, the South Asian Students Association at Duke, is manning a table at the annual Springternational fair/celebration held on campus to celebrate…something about spring and international-ism…and the idea came up about trying to find an elephant to [...]
Day 11
Posted: February 11, 2010 in Chronicles of KVilleTags: ACC, Apple, Basketball, Duke, iMac, Maryland, Tenting, UNC
Day 11! I actually only had 30 minutes of tent duty today. For those of you in Durham, you’ll know that it is unbelievably windy today – I’m talking hurricane force violent winds ripping through everything. Zach, the head line monitor, sent out an email explaining that we had grace until after the Duke @ [...]
Day 10
Posted: February 10, 2010 in Chronicles of KVilleTags: Duke, Duke Basketball, K-Ville, Rivalry, Tent, Tenting, UNC
I’ve decided to keep a running blog of the happenings of K-ville this year, since it’s an experience so weird that I feel the need to share it with the world (aka myself, in the future. Sometimes I log onto other computers and check my blog to get more hits) For those of you who [...]
Bora Bora?
Posted: December 6, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Bora Bora, Duke, Duke Basketball, Finals, UNC
I have recently become obsessed with going to Bora Bora. I mean, this place is as close to heaven as one can get. Check this out – I honestly have worked out ways to get there, and unfortunately the flight to California that I would need to take before I get on a cruise is [...]
She Was Kind of Psycho
Posted: October 3, 2009 in DukeTags: 30 Rock, Aycock, Dan Brown, Diya, Duke, McDonalds, The Lost Symbol, The Office, Website
It’s laaate Friday night, and everyone’s gone for fall break except me and a few others in Wannamaker. Parents are coming down tomorrow for the VT @ Duke game so they can rub it in my face a little bit, and then the gang is driving back up to the house for a weekend of [...]
…since I’ve gone to class. My current excuse is that I’ve been staying up so late trying to catch up on the reading that I’ve had to sleep through the next morning’s class to fulfill my “at least eight hours of sleep a night” quota. It’s also been a while since I’ve posted on this [...]
