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<p>I don’t know about the rest of you, but if you don’t make judgments I don’t know how you can make decisions. Maybe the word “critical,” is what you were trying to say. But, yes, making a judgment call is exactly what deciding which college to attend is all about. It is self-evident that one can make one’s own way in any setting – college being only one such setting. I was using the beer-swilling basketball rubes as my analogy to overall Duke culture. If that is the underlying culture that one must work against or find one’s way around, etc. etc. then you really haven’t helped matters by simply stating that there are “other” ways to enjoy Duke life. I was trying to get a fix on the fact that, yes indeed, beer-frat-basketball is the framework culture of Duke versus (as a contrast) the intellectual-fun-in-the-sun of Stanford or the residential close college system of Yale. I thank you all for doing me the favor of confirming that Duke indeed is a frat-based social culture that one must work around in order to build a decent personal life. I will have to think about this and weight that against all the benefits of Duke classwork which, in my limited experience, seems excellent.</p>