Recently, I took my roommate home with me. We drove the five hours across North Carolina, through curvy mountain roads to my hometown in the western part of our state. I spent the weekend driving on back roads, showing her my rural hometown. At one point on my tour she remarked, “So, it was a big deal freshman year when you came to Chapel Hill.”
A crowd of about 50 graduate students and community members heard on Thursday from two alumni who took the entrepreneurial route after graduate school.
It might seem as though two people who live a world apart and speak different languages could meet and fall in love only in the plot of a romantic movie.
As UNC awaits Wednesday’s matchup against Duke University, students can already take pride in one victory: its ranking. On Sporcle, that is. A few months ago, Sporcle began compiling data on colleges’ use of the site, creating a top 25 ranking of worldwide schools.
Despite UNC’s commitment to switch from Blackboard to Sakai by 2014, announced Oct. 18, some professors and teaching assistants don’t see it as a clear favorite. Some educators said they preferred Blackboard, while some who have tried the Sakai program think several factors make it easier to use.
The maze of fences and yellow caution tape outside Davis Library might soon become a thing of the past. Roof construction should be completed on schedule Friday, said Julie Thurston, a structural engineer in the design and construction services department.
