Basketball and Niches

Introduction
When I got here, I discovered that it was more beautiful than I thought it was it terms of the campus itself. I guess it was initially disappointing in terms of students, just because it’s so – well, it’s very segregated. Everyone has their little niche and it’s kind of hard to intermediate between them. But you kind of get over it – you find a way to intermediate the situations.

Campus Life and Social Life
In order to get tickets to Duke basketball games you have to tent from – well it depends on how long you want to do it. Some people come back early from winter break and it’s like a one month – one half month kind of thing – some people do it, come in later – it’s a month or a two week thing. I’m not that into it so I just did a 2-week thing. You get a group of friends together – you get a tent and you go and you camp out by the gym – it’s called Kepschevskyville, and you have shift everyday, my shifts were two hours every day, and then you spend a night in the tent every week and then the days before game you have to be there continuously 24 hours because they have random checks and they give you your wrist band and then you can go and do it and it kind of becomes a part of this whole Duke experience, very unique to Duke. I mean it’s fun, just because it’s like a big party all the times and a lot of people are there. Advertisement
Academics
My classes have been really, really awesome, especially this semester. I was in a focus program last semester, which is an intensive freshman beginning experience where you live with people you take classes with, and you take all these classes with higher ranked professors you wouldn’t be able to normally, which was both a good and bad experience, in that it was too intense for me. I had one professor who was very, very well known, very famous last semester but he wasn’t a great teacher per se. His TA did a lot of the grading. But was still active in class it wasn’t like this looming figure. On the whole, I’d say, the biggest incentive to coming to DUKE is getting really, really good professors because they are amazing and they are really engaged and the do love what they do.

Student Body
There’s a huge racial segregation. It’s self segregated – but there’s a bit of everything in that. There’s a big divide between in terms of the Caucasian population, if you go Greek, you go Greek and that’s it’s own little life. I didn’t. I’m affiliated with share. Which is one of the living groups And if you don’t go Greek you have a very different experience, I think,

In Closing...
The resources are really good. The Library system is amazing. I mean I just finished a 30 page paper – and I had 15 or 20 books for that and they were all really helpful. They have specific areas. They can make appointments with you – the libraries are good. The gym on West is really nice as well. The facilities are well kept – they’re very nice. In terms of that I’d say it’s definitely worth it, the beauty of the campus is also well preserved. The gardens are well taken care of. In that sense, it’s an aesthetically pleasing campus.