DukeEngage Durham^2
Ezgi Ustundag, Class of 2016 My summer with DukeEngage Durham: The Sister Cities Program feels less like selfless service and more like an opportunity for personal growth. Let me explain, I promise it’s not...
Tagged: North America
dolphins up close
Hi Unis! I hope you’re all having a fantastic summer. My summer has been filled with beach, ocean, and plenty of dolphins – just the way I like it! I started my summer doing...
Wader woes
Waders can be a wonderful thing. To some, they’re key to a good day of hunting and fishing. For others, they complete an award-winning costume (meet your director, new Unis!). And for those of...
Defining Service {lma}
Approximately 17 days ago, another DukeEngage student and I arrived at our volunteer site in a small village called California in Trinidad and Tobago. We learned that we would be working under the supervision...
on the eve of my-summer-is-over
hi all, i’ve never had much experience with blogs. when i first set up a myspace account i was so excited i posted two entries – and that’s all i’ve got, for blogs. it’s...
The Brief History of a Box
Hello fellow Scholars, I’ve been meaning to post for sometime now from Moss Landing, CA, home to Phil’s Fish Market, more sea lions than people, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), where I...
violence in the district
This summer, I have the pleasure of interning as an investigator with a criminal law internship program, thanks to the summer enrichment fund. There’s never a dull day on the job here in the...
Greetings from the Rocky Top Retreat
I open my eyes from a hazy sleep to see a spider above my head. It looks dangerous. It takes me a while to register what exactly is going on. I get a book,...
New York City, #1
This is my last week in NYC! I wish I had posted on this blog earlier. Now I have to go back in my memory and recall all the AMAZING things that happened over...
Air-raids, looting, oral histories–and a lesson about Wikipedia
In Paris to the Moon, Adam Gopnik’s excellent book about his time as an American living in Paris, he has a chapter on how French people whom he interviewed (he’s a writer for the...
