Duke Medicine Pavillion (est. 2013) by Perkins+Will
Click an image to view the rendering larger. Beautiful.
photographer: Travis Dove
goal: attend a Duke home basketball game
I took a few minutes off from Microbiology-studying to assemble these lovelies.
Three of my oldest in-general crushes. AHHH, I LOVE YOU ALL.
source credits: photo 1 (Duke), photo 2 (Georgetown), photo 3 (Yale)
nom nom nom nom nom nom too bad it costs $45 and I would rather make it by hand and save the money nom nom don’t underestimate my silkscreen and sewing skills nom
“Letter Sweaters”
Chris Sebastian
Adobe Illustrator
The first batch of academic crushes represented by old-timey letter sweaters. Duke is my oldest crush, Northwestern is my newest crush, and Notre Dame gave me a ring. Others in this batch: Georgetown, Harvard, and Stanford. More crushes coming soon.
Purty campus architecture: not required, but a wonderful bonus.
Duke University Chapel (via carl lexicon)
I would be fine if Butler won the title tonight— it would make for great sports storying— but I would be more fine if Duke won tonight. Why?
1) Duke was the first college I rooted for when I transitioned from “sports suck” me into “woo! sports” me in junior high. Sorry, University of Texas— you were close! But Duke got me first. I credit the TIP test and lots of loose leaf for my fandom— that and my grade school (in Dallas, mind you) had an inordinate amount of UNC fans. This is what happens when in-state college basketball stinks— impressionable kids default to The Machine. We also had Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas State, Penn State, Ohio State, and Michigan football fans in junior high. I blame the parents.
2) The Duke Chapel is pretty Gothicarchitecturally wonderful. Intricate. Intimidating. EPIC. A Gothic feast for the eyes. Gothic Wonderland.
photographer: Chris Hildreth
aerial view of the Duke Chapel, blue and gray (always a fan), shadow and line
Duke Magazine -Religious Life at a Crossroads, by Bridget Booher - January/February 2008
Duke Chapel (via tz5b)
Whenever I academically crushed on colleges in grade and high school, I went on a drawing spree— logos, mascots, crests/ coats of arms, the whole nine yards. I would draw on loose leaf, in the margins of notes, on the surfaces of binders, and on the backs of spirals and my hands. I have piles of this stuff.
Provenance? I drew this Duke combo freehand in 7th grade, so either late 1997 or early 1998. I used colored pencils and markers on what appears to be a perforated sheet of wide ruled paper (no holes means it’s not binder friendly!). It has remained relatively undisturbed on my childhood bedroom wall since the late ’90s. Except for that pushpin hole.
Duke versus North Carolina tonight.
I have to side with the school I’ve had an academic crush on since 1997. I think we took that TIP test in 7th grade, right? Sure.
You never forget the first one.
