<p>Not ■■■■■■■■, just correcting.</p>
<p>In reply to the HoyaSaxa discussion, Duke does have a lot of drinking, and to be honest it does annoy me (even though I party a couple times a month–nothing near the partying of fratboys, though). Hoya does have some valid points.</p>
<p>That being said, Duke’s drinking scene is not, as he implies, much more than other schools. I’ve been to his beloved Georgetown and while there are many rich, annoying, out-of-touch students here, there are even more rich, annoying, out-of-touch students at Georgetown. Any of these top private schools are going to have a lot of rich kids; I’ve visited Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Chicago, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins…the list goes on and on. It is annoying–to me, and to a lot of other people. </p>
<p>However, it would be stupid to ignore the strong financial aid at Duke and other institutions too. Only a few other schools, like Duke, will give someone a free education if their family makes less than 60,000 dollars. As in FREE. As in, completely free, no loans. FREE. Lots of people I know would have had to pay more at UNC than at Duke–ironic, huh?</p>
<p>Anyway, some people also get way to defensive. Don’t let Hoya get under your skin. He makes some valid points. He makes some invalid ones as well. In the end, Duke COULD USE more options than what we have now, when looking at the social scene. However, to say that drinking, sex, and drugs are the NORM on campus is completely misleading. Most people I know go to the movies, go bowling, or go to sports events on weekends. Only a few get wasted/smoke drugs/have sex every weekend. </p>
<p>Hoya, I understand what you’re saying, and some of it is right–but a lot of it is wrong, too. Duke defenders, I understand what you’re saying, and A LOT of it is right–but SOME of it is wrong. We have problems; other schools do too. Georgetown does, though Hoya, despite his remarkable ability to identify problems in other institutions, seems to be remarkably blind to Georgetown’s own problems.</p>
<p>Don’t let it get under your skin. In the end, college is about being your own person. Dukies, you go to an institution that is respected around the US and is number 9 by the latest rankings. You have nothing to be ashamed about, in general (including me, since I go here, ha). Many people would kill to be in our position. Some people, like Hoya, don’t like Duke though, and that is fine. </p>
<p>Being perfectly honest, Duke has been a good experience in some ways, a bad experience in others. Its college. Too many people are blinded by love for their schools to see that, to objectively reason when speaking of their institutions. Meh.</p>
<p>Part of the appeal of the school is its social life, the outgoing nature of the student body in comparison to peer academic institutions.
The goal of well-rounded national university with a strong liberal arts curriculum is to provide students with a well-rounded undergraduate education, not funnel them into jobs.</p>