The University of North Carolina - Charlotte

Date: May 27 2010
Major: Business - Management and Administration (This Major's Salary over time)
First of all, I am an upcoming Sophomore here at UNC Charlotte. I am originally from Gastonia, NC which is about 30 minutes down the road. UNC Charlotte was my first choice of schools over NC State and App State.

Secondly, I am very involved on campus. I was in the Emerging Leaders and Students in Free Enterprise and have now been chosen to be a member of the Student Alumni Ambassadors. I am in a learning community called Building Educational Strengths and Talents (BEST) and I am very satisfied with this program. It offers free printing, extra advising, educational supplies, free mock interviews, opportunities to go on out of state trips, free tutoring and there are many more benefits. Some of the resources on campus are the Writing Resource Center (WRC), University Center for Academic Excellence (UCAE) and the Math Learning Center (MLC). I have personally used the WRC on several occasions. The WRC offers free tutoring on your writing(editing papers or just practice on writing skills) by Graduate students. The Math Learning Center offers tutoring with math while the UCAE offers tutoring on almost all core subjects(Bio, Calc, etc) including the classes that are covered in the MLC. UNC Charlotte's library is also an excellent resource that we have. The size of the 10 story building(plus a basement) is excellent for people like me who like to disappear into the library and study. With the size of the library it also offers more than adequate literature for your studies and personal readings(if you so choose).

There have been a lot of complaints on this website about the social life here at UNC Charlotte. My favorite part about the social life here is between the student orgs and the athletic events. The basketball games this past year were some of my favorite memories from my first year. It is extremely easy to get caught up and excited in the heat of a Charlotte 49er basketball game. I went to all but 2 or 3 home games this year. For those of you who do plan to attend school here next year I highly recommend that you join Niner Nation Gold in which allows you better seating at Basketball games. With the addition of coach Alan Major in the past few months I am extremely excited about next season. The student orgs that I am involved help to take up a good deal of the rest of my time. The networking opportunities that arise through student orgs are also very beneficial and enjoyable. Just the other day I was able to help with the Charlotte Regional Awards luncheon in which several famous people were in attendance such as Mayor Foxx and Humpy Wheeler(Pres of Lowes/Charlotte Motor Speedway). If you are a party person then there is also plenty of parties to go to( I am not a party person). The party bus picks up from Wednesday night to the weekend and takes students to the clubs. There are also a lot of frat/sorority parties from my understanding.

Right now is an extremely exciting time to be a student at UNC Charlotte. If you ever get the chance to look at the campus master plan then please do so as it made me excited about the future. The administration has also made great strides in recent years to build new, state of the art buildings (there is a whole area near the Union that is basically under 5 years old).

If there is anyone who reads this who has questions about university then please feel free to email me at