Durham

The Charity: AMF (Ailing Mothers and Fathers)

The Guy: Dave Fajgenbaum

I met Dave at a leadership conference my junior year of college. I call him Clark Kent. He was a quarterback for Georgetown's football team, pre-med, and had started a non-profit in memory of his mother. AMF helps support high school and college who have lost family members and are dealing with this personal trauma. (But Greg, Georgetown is in DC- not NC. What gives? David, and his Mother lived in NC).

Top Five things to do in Durham:

Five: Party hard with Duke students (just not the lacrosse team)

Four: Visit Duke (Cool campus and chapel)

Three: Visit UNC (I didn’t do that this time around)

Two: Eat Hush Puppies from Cookout. Yummm…

One: Catch a Durham Bulls game if their in season (they weren’t…sad)

Things I passed on: UNC, Durham Bulls, and other triangle attractions

Good places to stay: Andrew and Em’s place

Durham’s Ratings. On a scale from 1 to Boston: 6.5

Durham has that college town feel, good minor league baseball, and Rocio Perez.

Durham doesn’t have a ocean, mountains, history, or a city feel.

The story: Durham. What to say about Durham. Doesn’t seem like a bad place to live or be in college. There is land that is cheap. Even college apartments seem nice. If you’re there as a student, you probably go to a good school. Being in the triangle seems like a good place to be right now. That being said… ah? Durham. Really. The only reason anyone has ever heard of you is because there was that movie where the guy wore the girls underwear to pitch better. And if any of my readers say “Duke” or worse, “Duke Basketball” is a reason people know about Durham- they couldn’t be further off. People know about Duke, not Durham. Sheesh. In an anonymous poll that I never did, I asked people where the school Duke was, and they said in the town of Duke. Anyways, Durham, not a bad place to be, but I wouldn’t go there unless you are settling down in a good job, med school, or law school. In that case, buy some land and build. It’ll be worth more in 10 years. Anyways, Duke is pretty, my night out was fun, and I still hope they lose to UNC (and I hope UNC loses to everyone else).

And… donate.