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People tell you that you can never predict what your college experience will bring. From the minute your application to a particular university is accepted, almost every college student spends hours imagining their perfect lives at their chosen university, creating lofty expectations for the presence they will have on their future campuses. But most of the time, before this image crystallizes in our heads, our college experience begins, and we actually have to figure stuff out for real. I had two years to think about what my life would be like at Duke (check out my first blog post for why I had two years to think about Duke). I used to spend hours roaming on Google Earth, trying to virtually simulate what my Duke experience would be like. I would watch Duke basketball highlight tapes, listening closely to the melody of the Cameron Crazies and wondering how my voice would fit into their symphony. I catalogued the different permutations of majors and minors I could pursue and which degre...