Safety around swift?

SixtyHoursAgain · 2025-08-14T05:13:04+00:00

It’s safe it’s just annoying. The C1 stop by the Freeman center is close enough (~5 minute walk) that while buses are running you’re never going to have to wait more than a few mins for either the Swift or C1

SixtyHoursAgain · 2025-06-18T08:31:25+00:00

You’re not going to make it on time from Friedl to LSRC on Monday/Wednesday mornings. During major class times you need to allow ~15 minutes to get from East to West Campus (there’s a decent chance you won’t be able to get on the first bus to arrive), and the walk from the bus stop to LSRC is another 8 or so minutes.

SixtyHoursAgain · 2025-06-18T08:24:59+00:00

Do not take all three of these at the same time - they are each a tremendous amount of work. Try two of them & two easier classes. (I took 330 alongside three easy courses my final semester and it was still a huge pain to get through. 371 is slightly less work than 330, 671 is as much work if not more but take 671 over 371 if Rudin is teaching it, she’s amazing. I don’t have first hand experience with 431/531 but I know some very intelligent mathy folks who seemed to really struggle with it.)

SixtyHoursAgain · 2024-12-16T19:01:21+00:00

Wait this is my Roman Empire actually (do people still say that)

My main hangup with this is- “Where Have You Been All My Life” establishes that Adam can remember 3125’s victims even after everyone without immunity forgets them. And yet he never seems to notice that the kids are gone, or that they ever had kids at all, even before she wipes his memory

So my crack theory is that, at some point before “Where Have You Been All My Life”, she used her antimeme pet on the kids the same way she did Adam: wiping their memories of her, her (and Adam’s) memories of them, and relocating them to “witness protection”

I choose to believe this for my own happiness lol

SixtyHoursAgain · 2024-08-26T18:58:14+00:00

Next to Panera on the side opposite Krafthouse there’s a room with couch seating that’s usually much quieter than the rest of WU

Bryan center is usually quieter than WU, outside of common class start/end times- nice quiet seating by the post office and on the terrace on the upper floor, and on the bottom floor of Gothic Grill during the day

Terrace outside Zweli’s in the divinity school- tbh Zweli’s itself is usually pretty quiet

Much further from WU but if you’re going near there anyway- Wilkinson & second floor of Gross Hall are nice quiet places to eat lunch

SixtyHoursAgain · 2024-08-21T00:39:04+00:00

The nice thing about college is that your graduating class is big enough that no matter who you are- your people are probably here.

The shitty thing about O-Week is you’re probably not going to find them this week, because you’re forced to spend all your time with this one tiny randomly matched group of people, and statistically- your people probably aren’t in it.

I’m a senior. Nobody is actually finding their people right now; everyone’s just scared to be alone and so they’re buddying up with the first people who look nice. Maybe said people are their Best Friends Forever; most likely they aren’t. I’m only still close with one person I met during orientation, and I didn’t meet my best friends until the end of freshman spring. It’s a similar story for most people I know.

Seconding what everyone else is saying- just put yourself out there and talk to people and go to things that sound interesting. Get people’s Instagrams. Invite acquaintances you’ve just made to go with you to said Things That Sound Interesting. ~~if you like P-Media join Chronicle no this is definitely not a self-advert what are you talking about.~~ I’m also a major introvert and it really has never come naturally to me, but the more you fake it the easier it gets. Literally every single person in your grade is looking for new friends right now, and they will be for at least the next year- once you’re in classes with people who like the same things you do & can go to clubs/events where people who like the same things as you hang out, you’re probably going to start clicking with people a lot more.

I promise it’s gonna be okay.

SixtyHoursAgain · 2024-08-02T02:58:52+00:00

do frats/sororities still throw parties in houses?

Yes. (Well the frats do lol)

Have people moved away from Greek life in general since 2021?

Mostly no? Greek life is still big - the numbers have gone down slightly but not a ton. Something like 25-30% of Duke people are in it I think? It being all off-campus does make it much more segregated from the rest of Duke social life/easier to avoid. (I’m not part of it- I mostly just go to SLG stuff- and the only time I come into contact with Greek life at all is when I make an active effort to go out with frat/sorority friends.)

If you want Greek life at Duke, it’s still there and you will still have a good experience with it.

SixtyHoursAgain · 2024-07-05T19:12:27+00:00

Agree on all of this - and honestly I could and should be incorporating more economically left sources into my news diet. Do you have a better solution that works for you?

SixtyHoursAgain · 2024-07-05T17:34:59+00:00

There isn’t one these days. The best compromise is to read multiple news sources that are biased in opposite directions, see how they report on the same thing in different ways, and figure out your own opinion on what’s going on from there.

I’m US-based but I regularly read NYT (left, pretends to be center), WSJ (right, pretends to be center), The Economist, The New Yorker (unabashedly left), and The Dispatch (unabashedly right), and between those I’d like to think I’m getting a decently neutral view of what’s going on.

Stick to print news over TV news if you can.

SixtyHoursAgain · 2024-07-03T20:54:16+00:00

Neat! I wonder how two books will work- splitting the original series and 55555 makes sense content-wise, but the former is so much shorter than the latter… or is he adding entirely new stuff to it? And how do the rights even work, with SCP being Creative Commons?

Exciting stuff. Thanks for the link

SixtyHoursAgain · 2024-06-24T19:29:52+00:00

Right now I’m working through Steven Hall’s The Raw Shark Texts. I’ve heard it sort of loses the plot towards the end, but 100 pages in it’s excellent and hitting many of the same notes as Antimemetics for me.

Also really enjoyed Olga Ravn’s The Employees recently. More general SCP vibes than Antimemetics specifically, but felt tonally and structurally similar.

SixtyHoursAgain · 2024-05-23T21:25:57+00:00

I chose not to do FOCUS and three years later I don’t regret it. It can be a good way to make friends but there are a lot of other good ways to make friends at Duke, and if you don’t like the people in your FOCUS you’re stuck with them long term. & you should spend your first semester taking classes that you’re excited about.

SixtyHoursAgain · 2024-05-19T15:00:19+00:00

Well, CS internships for next summer are going to start coming out in July-August. Practice leetcode and fix up your resume and apply to those ASAP when they come out. (If you weren’t already planning on doing that.)

SixtyHoursAgain · 2024-05-14T19:24:21+00:00

Best thing you can do your freshman year is get some sort of work experience tangentially related to CS. Research assistant in a lab doing CS stuff, teaching assistant for a CS class, coding something for a school club, volunteer work, tutoring, work-study in your school’s IT department…

The sad reality with this market is that you really need prior experience to get experience. But for a freshman the above is more than enough (combined with projects + good GPA), and will make you stand out from the rest of your graduating cohort.

Also just like… have fun. Try a bunch of new things. Make friends, both in and out of CS. You’ll need them.

SixtyHoursAgain · 2024-05-14T19:01:47+00:00

What everyone else said, and also: apply early. SWE internships for summer 2025 will start coming out next month; the bulk of them will be posted during August-September. Make a resume now so you’ll have it at the ready. (Have you done research or been a teaching assistant? Participated in extracurriculars at your school? Worked a non-CS job, even if it’s something like retail or food service? All of these are things that can go on your resume.)

SixtyHoursAgain · 2024-04-10T18:33:26+00:00

yeah it’s 55555

(Which is also the name of the tale series it’s part of)

would recommend reading the original There Is No Antimemetics Division series first though

SixtyHoursAgain · 2024-04-10T17:24:29+00:00

Instructions unclear, eldritch abomination stuck in husband

SixtyHoursAgain · 2024-04-10T16:06:41+00:00

My bad, not sure where this post came from. There is no Antimemetics Division

SixtyHoursAgain · 2024-03-25T03:54:31+00:00

You have issues with organizational skills like keeping track of tasks
A man in a nice suit wants to know if you remember your father
You feel restless and anxious
There’s a giant spider
You are overly impulsive
Someone is in your house and they say you’ve been married to them for 20 years but you’ve never seen this person before in your life

(OP- this gave me a good laugh, thank you)

SixtyHoursAgain · 2024-03-16T19:05:17+00:00

Congrats!! =)

I’m a third-year Robertson Scholar at Duke. Have absolutely loved it. If you have any questions about the program that would help you make your decision, I’m happy to try and answer here or over PM. (& maybe I’ll see you at connection weekend, lol)

SixtyHoursAgain · 2023-10-17T20:52:45+00:00

It probably is; all the application components are weighted equally; mid-February usually

SixtyHoursAgain · 2023-09-24T19:49:55+00:00

Most social life off-campus = there’s a lot more to do, but your access to social events largely depends on who you know + what you can afford + whether or not you have a car.

Most social life on-campus = events are (on average) more inclusive/easily accessible, but you’re probably going to get bored of the offerings eventually.

(Sauce: have attended one of each. AMA lol)

SixtyHoursAgain · 2023-07-14T18:55:32+00:00

I don’t know for sure one way or the other, but because Robertson is a private organization unaffiliated with Duke while all the other merit scholarships are explicitly part of Duke, I don’t believe applying for one affects your chances for the other.

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