The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Date: Aug 19 2003
Major: Undecided (This Major's Salary over time)
UNC is not some stellar higher education "best buy." The campus is like a bubble, with each student led to believe that reality lies within the confines of the campus walls. Students overall were extremely cliquish, and I felt like it was high school nightmarishly revisited. It doesn't matter how much someone tries to get involved on campus. Everyone is stigmatized there as belonging to one certain social group or another. I might as well have walked to class with a sign around my kneck stating, "I DON'T AGREE WITH YOUR WORLD VIEWS, I WON'T ALTER MY WAY OF LIFE TO BE YOUR FRIEND, AND YES I CAN'T WAIT TO TRANSFER OUT!" Just because you get into UNC doesn't mean ANYTHING… I met lots of kids who didn't know how to finish a complete sentence at orientation (which by the way is a complete foreshadowing event of the hell to come: no organization, no friendliness, just a lame excuse for wasted pot-heads to reunite with their highschool buddies while the other chosen few walk around depressed about the year to come)! The dorms suck, the food sucks, but hey if you work hard and do well in class you can always live off of your pride and reward yourself for sifting through the bs and coming out the other end. I had one amazing English prof. who ended up leaving the school to teach elsewhere due to the lack of support at the University. Although I did extremely well academically there, it was purely due to my effort, not because the professors presented the material in such an earnest and engaging fashion. I basically went to school there my freshman year for pratically nothing with scholarships and am now taking out exorbiant loan amounts to transfer to a private school up in New York City at NYU where I can only hope I can observe the real world, become a cultured person and learn from a community able to embrace change and accept differences.