<p>There are individuals with elitist attidues. There are also those who aren't elitist at all. You'll find the same thing at any top-10 ranked school.</p>
<p>dayobball, by elitist, i am asking if Duke is a lot like High School with a rigidly established social hierarchy of frats and sororities? Is Duke socially fluid or rigid? Do most people "stick to their own kind"? Is the student body blind and obliging to the needs of the rich and socialites at Duke?</p>
<p>I'm trying to gain a sense of what social life is like at Duke... not that it matters as I'll get rejected, but I'm really trying to figure it out..... all this negativity about the social life at Duke stems from somewhere and I am trying to find it. I am also seeking to find positives that balance this out.</p>
<p>Rich and socialites? From my experience, Duke doesn't seem like nearly as much of a country club school as people make it out to be...no more than comparable privates elsewhere in the country.</p>
<p>I don't know that there is a social hierarchy or anything like that though. The frats dominate the social scene but most parties are open to everyone.</p>
<p>i just got off the phone with a friend at wake forest and he said the following:</p>
<p>"Most Duke Freshman hate their first year because they live on East Side (he may have said west side) of campus and have to take a bus for 30 minutes to get to class/where everything is on west side (he may have said east side here) of campus"</p>
<p>Anyone care to comment?</p>
<p>Biiiiiiig exaggeration. The C1 (East-West) bus takes about 5-6 minutes between campuses, and the MOST you'll usually have to wait for one is 5-10 minutes. Living on East is great- we have our own library, music building, gym, etc. History, art, music, writing, and many foreign language and math classes are taught on East.</p>
<p>The only time the East-West thing sucks is on weekends, because it's taken me as long as 45 minutes from the time I started waiting at the bus stop on East to the time the C2 got to West.</p>
<p>Walking gets you there in 20 min. ;)</p>
<p>I was in heels. :p</p>
<p>Is there food on East?</p>
<p>The Marketplace on East is part of the all-you-can-eat (and smuggle out) dining plan freshmen are required to have. You get breakfast and supper Monday through Thursday, Friday breakfast, Saturday brunch, Sunday brunch, and Sunday supper (12 meals total). This semester they implemented a system where if you miss breakfast, you can have lunch at the MP. The food is fairly good (much better than many colleges'), and a new company is replacing ARAMARK (finally) next year, so it should be pretty good for incoming freshmen. The rest of your meals you eat on West or elsewhere using dining points.</p>
<p>I wish there were more places to eat on East. I've heard that there are plans to bring a third dining location to the Upper East Side of the MP, which would be nice.</p>
<p>The food at the MP isn't horrible, and certainly isn't as bad at the food at some colleges. There are certain mainstays like pizza and fries that are always good, albeit pretty unhealthy. :p</p>
<p>and plus duke is probably getting a new provider for east campus next year and it is a pretty small company so duke will become their "flagship campus" which probably means better quality than this year...</p>
<p>I love that Whole Foods is right by East!</p>
<p>Did anybody read the articles that where posted? </p>
<p>HAHAHAHA, I only read the first one but it was so biased and scathingly unfair that i couldnt bare to read the others. What kind of journalist asserts that half of white duke students are so sheltered that they have never met a black person. What a joke.</p>