Tag: stepping out of your comfort zone

When confronted with the many opportunities DukeEngage offered, I knew I had to decide which issues were close to my heart and …

San Francisco is a city that you couldn’t dream up… or at least I couldn’t, coming from the conservative South. …

Have you ever heard that quote from Eisenhower, “Plans are nothing. Planning is everything”? That quote comes to mind a …

I am a huge fan of the Harry Potter series. I’ve read all the books and seen all the movies …

Routine is important to me. At Duke, I wake up at the same time every day, go to the same …

When I applied to the DukeEngage Durham program, I was hoping that I would gain a better sense of the …

As I write this I find that I am struggling to find the words to express how my first week …

Wǒ bù zhīdào, which means “I don’t know”, is one of the first Chinese phrases I’ve learned, but it also …

The past week since last sitting down to reflect in a blog post has gone by, no matter how cliché …

It has almost been a week at the time of this post, and I must say that this trip thus …