Duke University seeks a talented, engaged student body that embodies the wide range of human experience; we believe that the diversity of our students makes our community stronger. If you'd like to share a perspective you bring or experiences you've had to help us understand you better-perhaps related to a community you belong to, your sexual orientation or gender identity, or your family or cultural background-we encourage you to do so. Real people are reading your application, and we want to do our best to understand and appreciate the real people applying to Duke. (250 word limit)
My nickname’s Twinkie.
I am chicken, stir fried with string beans. I am chicken, deep fried with waffles.
I am hip hop, Taiwanese math rock, indie future-soul.
I am the unholy union of a 250-watt space heater of a GPU and a 65-decibel blower fan chipping away 24/7 on a Vertcoin block chain.
I am procedurally generated voxel-based survival simulators, Korean 2D platformer RPGs.
I am /r/sneakers. I am /r/youtubehaiku. I am /r/asoiaf.
I am 3AM inspiration, Victorian Gothic fiction, reinterpreted in meme format.
They call me Twinkie.
But I am anything but homogenous,
Anything but artificial/processed/mass-produced/whitewashed.
I am Twinkie.