From the Eyes of a Dukie: 2010 Pictures Continued (& Some from 2011!)

Cameron for the Maryland game! Super pumped for tomorrow's game against UNC!

Duke in the Fall.. It seems like so long ago. The sun is starting to come out and the weather is hitting 60s these days!

Oregon -- my trip to the Rose Garden Arena for The Chronicle to cover the men's basketball game!

Plate & Pitchfork - Our own dine-in restaurant right here on campus.. on food points!

So there they are! The summing up of my adventures from last fall. Up later this week will be pictures from the UNC game, the Chiddy Bang concert, Coach K's talk to the Cameron Crazies, etc. But of note from the first semester:

Last last Sunday, my Germany Confronts the Holocaust class visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C., so that was a very intense experience, though I had already been twice before--once in junior high, once in high school. We even got to talk to one of the ladies who helped put together the exhibit, and it was great being able to ask her questions after reading about controversies surrounding the opening and display of the museum, articles in which she was mentioned! The class is definitely a very enriching one, and it definitely forces me to think a lot about history and the actions of the United States, not just of Germany.

Also of note is that last Thursday was Chinese New Year, and one of my classes--Institutions and Reforms in Rural China--went out to have a Chinese New Year dinner at Eastern Lights! It was awesome to be able to talk with my professor, classmates, and other prestigious Duke instructors in a very casual, light setting, and I definitely had very interesting discussions. Plus, it was great food on the university's tab, which is always awesome. The dinner definitely helped me think more about political science, especially the possibilities I have in the future being a political science major.

Oh! And I just thought of this one, but I'm taking an advertising class (Advertising/Society: Global), and all throughout the Super Bowl, every time there was an ad (the silly Dorritos one, anybody?), I would analyze it and try to find the message and intended audience--all subconsciously. I realized this halfway and was sort of embarrassed but then realized how good of a job the professor and TAs had done in getting me critically thinking about advertising around me.

All right, more pictures and adventures later! Sorry again for the ridiculously sporadic updates! I'll definitely try and do my best to post regularly, but it's been really difficult recently with sorority recruitment (Oh, I'll definitely put up a picture of that in a bit), midterms coming up (one paper due next Tuesday and midterms Wednesday and Thursday), and covering Chronicle games (women's basketball yesterday against UNC and Duke at Maryland). Oh--and how could I forget tenting?! Tent twenty--Dre All Day! Pictures for that will definitely be below this, too! And that's all for today--more later!