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"You should come here because our girls are at least twice as pretty as those in the Yankee land." Prof. then grabs a random guy by the elbow and repeats the question, asking the guy if it is indeed true. He agrees.
"They say that God must love Carolina, because he painted the sky Carolina Blue." Prof. on the subject of the UNC school colors - white and sky blue.
Foods: Bar-Be-Cue, Cheese Grits, Sweet Tea
It is true that they've been at least six times as nice to me here as anywhere else, and the campus is at least four times as pretty. The weather is fine, and Chapel Hill is a beautiful town. The grad students are happy and fun, and the atmosphere is buoyantly progressive. The professors are very kind, their work seems good. They were very well organised about showing me around. Today the director of graduate admissions took me on a personal tour of Chapel Hill and Durham, from 9:30 to 2 in the afternoon. There are nanotubes, general relativity theory, molecular beam epitaxy, nuclear physics. I think I could be a star here.
Now I'm at Duke (er, that's "Dook", as in "Stanfurd". As a prospective Tarheel, you know...), whose campus is only more beautiful than UNC's in the degree that it's manicured, and perhaps the stone instead of brick, the gothic architecture. (As for Duke I think the saying "Behind every great fortune there lies a great crime" holds true — this place is built on tobacco money) But it is wonderful here, too, full of people dressed up in dresses and tuxes being trailed by photographers wandering the Duke Gardens; prospective frosh flocking to a barbeque and outdoor music. In the depths of one of the buildings I finally found Taylan (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
taylan), now I'm going to hang out with him. And hopefully get some studying done for Math 140. eep!
The state mammal of North Carolina is the Eastern Grey Squirrel. The bird is the Northern Cardinal; the insect, the honeybee; the tree, the Pine; the flower, the Dogwood (also a tree!). In fact, the state rock is granite, the state dog is the "Plott Hound," and the state fish is Sciaenops ocellatus. But where does the name "Carolina" come from?
"They say that God must love Carolina, because he painted the sky Carolina Blue." Prof. on the subject of the UNC school colors - white and sky blue.
Foods: Bar-Be-Cue, Cheese Grits, Sweet Tea
It is true that they've been at least six times as nice to me here as anywhere else, and the campus is at least four times as pretty. The weather is fine, and Chapel Hill is a beautiful town. The grad students are happy and fun, and the atmosphere is buoyantly progressive. The professors are very kind, their work seems good. They were very well organised about showing me around. Today the director of graduate admissions took me on a personal tour of Chapel Hill and Durham, from 9:30 to 2 in the afternoon. There are nanotubes, general relativity theory, molecular beam epitaxy, nuclear physics. I think I could be a star here.
Now I'm at Duke (er, that's "Dook", as in "Stanfurd". As a prospective Tarheel, you know...), whose campus is only more beautiful than UNC's in the degree that it's manicured, and perhaps the stone instead of brick, the gothic architecture. (As for Duke I think the saying "Behind every great fortune there lies a great crime" holds true — this place is built on tobacco money) But it is wonderful here, too, full of people dressed up in dresses and tuxes being trailed by photographers wandering the Duke Gardens; prospective frosh flocking to a barbeque and outdoor music. In the depths of one of the buildings I finally found Taylan (
taylan), now I'm going to hang out with him. And hopefully get some studying done for Math 140. eep!The state mammal of North Carolina is the Eastern Grey Squirrel. The bird is the Northern Cardinal; the insect, the honeybee; the tree, the Pine; the flower, the Dogwood (also a tree!). In fact, the state rock is granite, the state dog is the "Plott Hound," and the state fish is Sciaenops ocellatus. But where does the name "Carolina" come from?
