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(instrumental music playing) blake morgan: juniorgood afternoon. welcome to the unc charlotte undergraduate admissions webcast. my nameis blake morgan and i’m a junior operations & supply chain management major from gastonia,nc. so about for the next hour, we’re pretty much going to accept all of your guys’ questionsand i’ve also brought three of my really good friends. so without further ado, i’llgo ahead and introduce the panel. emily murphy: seniorhi, i’m emily murphy. i’m a senior english/education major here at unc charlotte. i’m originallyfrom highlands, nc up in the mountains but i’m happy to now call charlotte home.

stephanie burrough: sophomorehi everyone, my name is stephanie burroughs. i am a sophomore marketing analytics majorwith a spanish minor and i’m originally from baltimore, md. kaitlyn kubacki: juniorhey everyone, my name is kaitlyn and i’m a junior here at unc charlotte majoring inbusiness management from albemarle, nc. blake morgan: juniorawesome, thanks guys. so one of the really cool things about coming to unc charlotteis obviously that you have a story about getting here. so, emily, what—how did you get hereto unc charlotte? what is your story? emily murphy: seniori originally came to unc charlotte on a campus

tour, just kind of checking things out, andeveryone here was incredibly friendly, really helpful, and the campus is beautiful. a lotof greenery, really nice, new facilities, and i just kind of fell in love with the atmosphere.i really love the opportunities that charlotte offered as far as networking, internships.being right here near the city offered a lot of opportunities, so coming from a small townthat’s what i was really looking for getting out of my college career. so, that’s whatunc charlotte offered me. blake morgan: juniorawesome! stephanie burrough: sophomorefor me when i looked at schools, i mean coming from up north i kind of looked at schoolsall up and down the east coast and i always

kind of—i always believed in kind of gettingthat feeling and kind of that-- kind of chills that you get when you say, “okay, this isgoing to be home.” so, unc charlotte was actually the last school that i visited; ithink i applied to about 10 schools and visited many more than that. but when i came hereand i looked at the sac—the student activities center, and looking at the student union andi really just got that feeling i knew like, it just fit. i felt at home and i felt likei was very comfortable here, more comfortable than i was on any other campus. kaitlyn kubacki: juniorwell, so i’m a business major, so charlotte the city is actually the 2nd largest bankingcapital of the world, so for me, it had great

potential for me as a business major, so itwas one of my top choices to come here. blake morgan: juniori’d say probably the main reason why i decided to come to unc charlotte was a lot of schoolsthe history has already been made. and i guess you could say specifically for unc charlotte,the history is currently happening, so you are able to be a part of unc charlotte. sothat way when you look back you can say, “i literally helped make this university great.”so yeah. and then the second question—so we just talked about how you came to unc charlotte;how have you gotten involved with the university? emily murphy: seniori’ve gotten involved in many ways over my four years here. i’m part of greek life,i’ve been a part of several leadership organizations

on campus that have given me the opportunityto do service activities, to go out and give back to the community and be a leader on campus.i’m involved with niner guides, giving tours around campus and helping out with open houseand large events, admitted students day, things like that. but i really enjoy being able togive back to the university. and i have also been involved with relay for life and otherservice organizations. so those have given me great opportunity to get involved in thecommunity and also the community of unc charlotte. stephanie burrough: sophomorei’ve kind of had the opportunity to get involved in every different aspect of campus,so i’m currently a resident advisor in hunt hall, which basically means i’m in chargeof about 40 residents out of the building

that holds about 500, but i specifically have40 to myself and i kind of help first-year students kind of get acclimated to the collegelife experience. with that i am also a unc charlotte 49er cheerleader, so i am at allthe football games, all the basketball games. we have our spring game coming up soon sowe’re definitely—i’m excited about that. so just kind of being involved in that aspect– housing and also being involved in athletics – and like emily said, i’m a niner guideas well so i give tours every week. kaitlyn kubacki: juniorso for me, i joined the business learning community as a freshman here at unc charlotte.and then now i am just currently a leader. i worked my way up into leadership positionsthroughout different organizations and unc

charlotte is a great campus and we have over350 student organizations here and so i’ve just slowly worked my way up to be a leaderin some of those. blake morgan: juniorawesome. and one of the key ways…i’m very much like stephanie…i got involved in alot of different departments, different aspects. i’ve been a resident advisor, i had a jobat the student union, i’ve had a lot of leadership positions, both with the ninerguide program (our tour guide program for the university), as well as some campus ministriesand a lot more! so, really awesome. and now we’re going to go ahead and bring the questionsfrom you guys. so, one of the very first questions i see is a little bit about housing, so whatis a learning community? kaitlyn, you said

you were in one? kaitlyn kubacki: junioryeah, so as a learning community, i’ll try to fit it briefly and get it to you the bestway possible. so again, i’m a business major, i joined the business learning community.so business—a learning community is where you basically live in the same room or thesame hallway with other students who are in your same major. there are also non-majorspecific learning communities. so there could just be a leadership learning community. soif they don’t have one for your particular major, they have one you can just join anyway.but you know, for me it had great opportunities if i needed some help with homework, my roommatewas the same—similar, 3-5 classes with me.

so studying for a test we would all—my wholehallway would go down the hall and meet in the study rooms in the dorm and study togetherfor tests, so i highly recommend the learning communities for sure. blake morgan: juniorawesome. and then, emily, you said you were part of greek life, right? so, does greeklife have their own housing accommodations? emily murphy: seniorgreek life does. we have greek row, which is up on the north side of campus or so. allseven of the panhellenic sororities have their own house in there and one of the ise fraternitieshas a house there as well, so that option is available, and they’re houses, just likeyou would find, they’ve got the nice, you

know, brick columns, and it’s a good placefor the greek community to hang out. blake morgan: junioryeah, they are really nice too. especially… that side of campus. and then stephanie, yousaid you were a resident advisor in hunt hall. a question was just asked, “can freshmenlive in hunt hall?” stephanie burrough: sophomoreyes. freshmen can live in hunt hall. i know previously—in previous years it was, i wouldn’tsay—i lived there my freshmen year so i definitely say freshmen can live there. mostof the students on my hall right now are freshmen, a few upperclassmen, obviously my roommatesand a few other people. but you can live there, it’s not specific to any class specification.

blake morgan: juniorawesome. and then another question was just asked about the light rail. so, the lynx blueline extension will be coming around august 2017, hopefully with construction everythingwill go well. and then who’s from a small town? oh, so two of you! so one really coolquestion was just asked, “coming from a small town, i’m a little terrified to cometo unc charlotte, mainly because it’s so big. how would be—well, what would be thebest way to adjust to unc charlotte?” emily murphy: seniori think what my advice would be on it, i graduated with a class of 38 from a public school innorth carolina, so when you say ‘small town’ i feel you—small town. but coming from that,it was—i grew up in atlanta and moved there

so i didn’t have as much transfer processgetting used to being back in charlotte because it was just like going back to the big city,but it was still an adjustment. my suggestion would be to be willing to branch out, definitelyliving on campus really helped me because i was able to meet people who were also freshmenwho were also new here, also trying to figure out where we are in our point of life andbecoming college students. so they were kind of trying to figure everything out with me.getting involved from day one is also really important, and that’s important to anyonecoming to college, i believe wholeheartedly, not just if you’re coming from a small townbut coming from a small town, unc charlotte is a large university, not gonna lie. butonce you’re here and you establish yourself

on campus and you get involved in your majorand some of these other organizations like we are, it really starts to feel like a reallysmall community. the four of us have been working together and known each other forquite a few years and it really does form like a small family. getting involved in thosethings and really finding somewhere that you click really, really helps with that. blake morgan: juniordo you have anything to add, kaitlyn? kaitlyn kubacki: juniori mean, similar story—small hometown, my high school was actually a small charter schoolwith 55 students in my graduating class so a little bit bigger than yours. but so, theyactually told me—my advisor actually told

me, “kaitlyn, this is a huge university.you won’t like it.” and i think by telling you how i’ve staked my claim here, it’spossible to come here and love it. for sure, getting involved and getting active on campus,staying active on campus. the learning community, you get 30 instant friends, so those 30 peopleare in at least three out of your five classes and so now as a junior i don’t go to a singleclass without knowing someone in the class, even if we didn’t register together. i’llhappen to be in class on day one and go, “oh my gosh, there’s so-and-so” and so weknow each other. and so yeah, definitely in greek life’s a great way to get involvedand then the 350 organizations to meet new friends is great too.

blake morgan: juniorawesome. now, stephanie, you said you were a cheerleader, right? stephanie burrough: sophomore i am. blake morgan: juniorso you have a lot of experience at the football games, right? so with freshmen, how does theticket process work for football games? stephanie burrough: sophomorethe ticket process is super simple. basically all you have to do is go online and registerand say that you want a ticket and then about a week later they’ll come back and e-mailyou so you can claim your ticket and that’s really important to do. i’ve never not beenable to get a ticket for any of the sporting

events—football, i know football’s a bigone; basketball’s big as well, soccer, anything like that. i’ve never not been able to geta ticket for any game. i think that’s something really important to know as well as the studenttickets are free and depending on the sport, your guest tickets may have a price on them.i know football has a price; basketball might have a price, i’m not positive. nine timesout of – you’re gonna get a ticket. so, that’s really important to know. blake morgan: juniorawesome. so then is anyone involved in honors because it’s a really big opportunity forstudents to have? so, emily, you’re involved in honors? and stephanie are you? no? okay.first one. yeah, so do you want to talk a

little bit about that for honors? emily murphy: seniorjust the general honors? blake morgan: junioryeah, about the university honors program emily murphy: seniorokay, yeah i’m in the university honors program and it’s a really awesome program.it’s non-disciplinary so it’s not specific to any major so it encompasses anybody oncampus that wants to. so as an english major, they didn’t have an english honors so itwas great for me to still be able to get that experience. they get you involved in thatfrom day one. you have different classes that you take for some of your general educationcourses, and i know coming from high school

it sounds like honors is going to be harder,it’s going to be a lot more work. it’s really not. when you come to college, theonly difference with honors is that your classes are generally going to be a lot smaller andthey’re going to be a lot more discussion-based and a lot more community based. so you’renot going to have large lecture classes with honors classes. they’re gonna be under about25-20 people so you can really get personal, you can really get to know the professors,great networking, and then every semester we’re also involved in community servicehours. we get to do social events; we get to go to things on campus with people likethe deans and the chancellor so it’s really great networking, but it’s also really rigorous,so being academically minded is really helpful.

and then as you kind of go through the program,you meet a lot of people, you get that structure, and then come your senior year you’re readyto complete your senior portfolio and graduate with honors like i am. so, it’s a really,really great program if you’re looking for that kind of community. blake morgan: juniorawesome. so there’s a lot of spots for us current students to be able to meet and greetother and a lot of new people. what would you say is the number one spot where you goto socialize here on campus? stephanie burrough: sophomoreanywhere that has food. blake morgan: juniorand with that, say your favorite place to

eat. stephanie burrough: sophomoremy favorite place to eat is bojangles, only because i’m from the north and the closestbojangles to me is an hour away in washington, d.c., so definitely bojangles and i feel likei’ve had my fair share of bojangles this year, but that’s okay! but yes, i definitelythink that’s gonna be your best place to go and hang out with people just because everyone’sgonna be hungry. it’s college. so you can just kind of say, “hey, i’m going to bojanglesat 4:00, do you want to come with me?” i promise you one of your friends will say yes,without a doubt. you might even see them; you might not even have to tell them and they’llbe there.

emily murphy: seniorso my favorite place, hm, that’s a hard one. i’m a very social person. i would saymy favorite place to hang out would probably be—i really like the area between the collegeof health & human services and the college of education. i’m in the college of educationall the time, frequently, so that’s kind of my area, but that courtyard is really,really nice. they’ve got benches and grass, so if it’s a nice day you can bring a blanketand lay out on the grass and that’s where everyone is coming and going because it’sright in front of the union so it’s close to all the food as well if you need to popin for a snack. it’s a really, really pretty area; they’ve done a really nice job withkeeping it nice, so i really like hanging

out there with my friends. and that’s usuallywhere rent-a-puppy is, so if rent-a-puppy is going on, you can pay $5.00 hang out witha puppy for 15 minutes. so, can’t beat that. kaitlyn kubacki: juniorand now there’s like a pet-a-goat or something like that? blake morgan: junioryeah, it’s pretty cool. they’re like baby goats. they’re so cute. it’s awesome. kaitlyn kubacki: juniorokay, so my favorite place is starbucks because i like coffee and it keeps me awake. so yeah,starbucks, because it’s right there in the union so you can grab your coffee if the lineis, you know, decent, and go sit down in the

student union, so that’s my favorite place. blake morgan: juniori don’t know what my favorite place would be. i’m always torn between the studentunion and the quad between chhs and coed because there’s always so much—so many peoplegoing through both. stephanie burrough: sophomorealways. emily murphy: seniorguess it depends if it’s raining or not. blake morgan: junioryeah, that is very true. that is very, very true. so, with classes, obviously we’retaking all these different types of courses, and we have the instructor to help us. arethere any other ways that students can seek

academic help outside of the instructor? stephanie burrough: sophomoreeverywhere. there’s definitely many options, i mean, i always stress to people that unccharlotte really wants you to succeed; we’re not just kind of like throwing you for thewolves, i mean they really, truly want you to succeed. so with that, you have the universitycenter for academic excellence, which basically means you can get one free tutoring sessionper class per week, and i think that’s super helpful for me, especially i’m taking accountingright now and i am there religiously every week. they also have supplemental instruction,so if you want more of a laid-back setting and less of a commitment, those are aboutfour or five times a week for a lot of the

general education courses and you can justkind of go and kind of review what’s been going on during the week, and those are taughtby current students who have received a’s in those classes. blake morgan: juniorawesome. and then, since you are a resident advisor, we just had another question: “howdoes wi-fi work out in the residence halls? stephanie burrough: sophomoreoh, wi-fi’s great. i haven’t had any issues with the wi-fi at all. they—the universityis continuously updating the wi-fi just because the university is continuously growing andwe’re having more students live on campus, so obviously there’s going to need to besome updates, but i’ve never had any issues

with it. blake morgan: juniorso when we were just talking about classes a little bit earlier, class size can somewhatbe a barrier to a lot of students. so, talk about that—your large class experience,small class experience, what was it like to be in a large class here at unc charlotte? emily murphy: seniori think they might be able to talk a little more about the large classes because of themajor-specific stuff, but i—our average class is about 30 students once you get upinto your major, that’s kind of the average size that your classes are going to be. beingan english major, my classes really lend themselves

to be discussion-based because it’s reallyhard to have an english class where you’re discussing texts and novels be 100+ peoplebecause that would be chaos. but my classes are usually 35 people or less once i’m inmajor courses. so, your liberal studies courses may be a little bit larger; the largest classi’ve ever had was about 250 people and that was a general psychology class that everyfreshman on campus was trying to take for a science credit. but my smallest class hasbeen 11 people, so i’ve had a really wide range. all of them have been very personal,very keyed to the students so that’s really great. i don’t know if you guys had… stephanie burrough: sophomorei think it also kind of depends on the course

that you’re taking, so i know for some ofour math courses, you have the option if you look when you’re registering, some of theclasses will be limited to like 40 seats, so i definitely try to go for those just becausemath is something i kind of need to be more on a personal level, as well as your generaleducation university writing courses, those are going to be capped at around 20-25 students,as well as my spanish minor i know those classes are capped; i had to like e-mail the professorto try and get in this course…really needed it. but they definitely cap those as welljust so you can get those hands on experiences. with your larger classes, like general psychology,i’m in that one right now. and yes that has 200 students and i came from relativelysmall schools too; my graduating class had

75 students in it, so i understand but i’mliterally in the third row, i’ve never felt distracted or anything like that. i thinkthere’s a way to kind of balance being in the large classes and being in the small classesand i don’t think it’s an overwhelming, intimidating kind of environment. kaitlyn kubacki: juniorright. coming in as a freshman, i had that general biology that everybody kind of hasto get out of the way with that science and the classroom itself had 298 seats in it,so a larger classroom space. again, coming from a high school with a graduating classof 55 students, so big change for me but i just chose not to sit in the last row, butnot to sit in the very front row either. i

chose kind of little bit kind of comfort zonein the middle. but definitely you know, your professor will provide office hours on yoursyllabus the first day of class. and, so i went to his office hours and just shook hishand and said, “hey my name is…” so then it became this thing that if i had aquestion in class i could raise my hand and he would know my name. so i made this personalconnection with the professor so that way it felt comfortable to go to him and ask questions. blake morgan: juniorawesome. yeah i think one of the really cool things with professors too—a lot of my experiencespecifically being the business college, they’ve actually had real world experience where someworked in the health care industry, the financial

industry, so being able to bring in not onlythe textbook perspective but also the real world perspective also allows me to learna lot more so that’s interesting to be a part of. one thing that was also just askedtoo was about like, recreation, how to get fit here on campus. so what kind of ways dowe have in order to stay athletic and you know, good and healthy and all that good stuff? stephanie burrough: sophomorewell the campus has a lot of hills, so we like to joke and say the “freshman 15”doesn’t exist because you’re really walking uphill half of your day. we do have two studentathletic facilities on campus, so if you’re looking to go to the gym and kind of justdo the elliptical and the treadmill, you could

do that. they also have classes, so if youwant to do zumba, if you want to do yoga, we have 49erx, which is like a version ofp90x, so there’s definitely many ways to get involved and at the beginning of eachsemester there’s a fitness sampler, and you can try about four or five different classesin a short amount of time to kind of see which one’s going to work best for you. i triedzumba; i made a fool of myself, i did not go back. i just stick to the elliptical—hey,there’s something for everyone. blake morgan: juniorand then, do we check out laptops here at the university? emily murphy: seniorwe do. yeah, you can check them out at the

front desk in the library at unc charlotteand they’ll check them out to you for 24 hours and as long as you don’t do any damageto it in 24 hours or the power cord they give you and bring it back on time you don’tget charged. you don’t have to have a laptop as a student here at unc charlotte unlessyou’re in engineering or architecture. they do have some stipulations about that becauseof software and all they need to have to complete their courses. but, we do have those options.our library also has hundreds of computers all throughout it and the library is open24 hours, 5 days a week during the school year, and then a little more limited hourson the weekend, and then 24/7 during exam week. so we have a lot of opportunities tohave access to that material if we need it.

blake morgan: juniornow, when it comes to college, there’s obviously the academic side and more of like, the socialside. so thinking about that—how have you physically gotten involved on campus outsidethe organizations? so when you come here as a student, what fun things are there hereto do at unc charlotte? stephanie burrough: sophomorewell, we have the campus activities board and they’re basically in charge of makingdifferent events on—making them happen on campus. so i know someone asked a questionabout holi moli earlier today, and then we have different like—luke kuechly was herejust a few weeks ago; shawn johnson has been here…they definitely kind of keep us entertained.there’s been comedy shows on campus; there’s

“all-you-can-make” cupcakes one day; theyhad a build-a-bear type set up one day in the student union, so really there’s somethinghappening every single day and some days i’ll wake around campus and be like, “wow, thereis a lot going on right now.” but i always tell people, “if you’re bored at unc charlotte,it’s not because the university itself is boring. it’s because you haven’t goneout and explored the city.” that’s why i came from baltimore but i like going intothe city, exploring north davidson, which we like to call “noda,” which is kindof like the arts—artsy district…going into the city and going into the museums;there’s food truck friday, there’s so many things that you can do that are off campus,so it just kind of gives you the full college

experience without kind of being stuck oncampus all day. emily murphy: seniornot to mention the professional sports, if you’re interested in that, we’ve got thepanthers, which you know, maybe next year. but we’ve got that, we’ve got the checkers,which is our hockey team; we’ve got the charlotte knights which is baseball, and they’reup and running right now, so that’s a lot of fun. blake morgan: juniorand the hornets too. emily murphy: seniorand the hornets. oh yeah, can’t forget basketball. absolutely.

blake morgan: juniorbuzz city! crazy. so, what are some of the general education courses that are requiredfor freshmen? so…going back to your freshman – sophomore year, what are some of thoseclasses you had to take? emily murphy: seniorwell, you can always check our admissions website if you just go to admissions.uncc.edu.,they’ll have all the very specific information that you’ll need if you’re concerned aboutcourse requirements or anything like that. but the general stuff is—you’re goingto have to take freshman writing courses (at least two of them); you’re going to havetwo maths, sciences, you’re going to have to have a science with a lab. some majorsrequire a language requirement, others don’t;

you’ll have to check specifically in yourmajor for those kind of things. so, kind of your general stuff that you still have experiencecoming in if you’re coming from high school or you may have knocked out of the way ifyou’re transferring in at your community college. so, just kind of general stuff. butit’s good—it’s good to get an idea of what the university offers and kind of takesome courses outside of your comfort zone, because i would not have done that if i didn’thave to and i actually found a lot of things that i actually have an interest in, likeart and being creative, that i didn’t know existed in me. so, it’s a good thing foryou. blake morgan: junioryeah awesome. and also too, a question was

just asked about classes that are requiredfor certain majors. so, i know that being a business major, we actually have that curriculumguide that’s given to us, and it pretty much says all the classes that you need totake, and won’t go specifically into the electives because they change semester bysemester. so, you have a curriculum guide set out by each college depending on the majoror department you’re going to be in. but yeah, i use that thing all the time. stephanie burrough: sophomoreall the time. i have it like, hanging up in my room. my mom has one that she like, checksoff…she’s like, “you’re graduating in four years,” and she checks off everythingi’m supposed to be taking, so i definitely

would say go to your specific college, getthe curriculum guide, and kind of start of knowing exactly the path that you need totake in order to graduate. emily murphy: seniorand we also have academic advisors, so if you’re coming in as a freshman and you’reundeclared, you will have an advisor in the university college to kind of guide you throughthose general education course. but if you come in with a major declared, you will havean academic advisor in your major and they will have those sheets for you. and they’llbe able to say, “this is exactly what you need to take. this is when it’s offered.this is when you need to try and schedule everything,” and they’ll do everythingthey can and work with you to try and get

it all taken care of. so you’re not on yourown. blake morgan: juniorand typically the curriculum guides are online, you just have to search—say for like, businessoperations & supply chain management, you would just google “unc charlotte curriculumguide for business” or “unc charlotte curriculum guide for…” any other departmentor major. however, if you can’t find it, you just e-mail or contact the respectivedepartment or contact the undergraduate admissions office, so you have those two choices as well.and then also, so we just talked about football a little bit earlier, and we talked aboutthe recreational aspects. so tell me a little bit about intermural sports, club sports,how does that work out? oh i said ‘work

out.’ emily murphy: seniorwe have a ton of – no pun intended— blake morgan: juniori know. it was very puny. emily murphy: seniorwe have a lot of intermural sports that are offered. there’s everything from, i believe—dothe freshmen still do water dodgeball and water polo? kaitlyn kubacki: junioryeah, they still—now that the pool’s open back up. emily murphy: seniornow the pool’s back open, yeah we can do

all those again. basketball, soccer, slow-pitchsoftball, we’ve kind of got anything and everything you might want here as far as intermuralsgo. and they’re really fun, because you can play at a competitive level if you playedin high school, but you maybe don’t want to do the d1 level, like we have our actual—likeour big sports; you can play in the competitive league, we have co-ed, we have single gender,we have kind of just the laid back feel—option. so if you don’t want to play competitively,you don’t’ have to. and you usually only play like five or six games a season—intermuralseason. it’s pretty easy to do—get involved in, we have several intermural fields aroundcampus. there’s some on campus kind of near our soccer facilities that our soccer teamswill use as their practice facilities when

they’re in season. and then we have quitea few fields across the street that we also use a lot. so, we do have those options. blake morgan: junioryeah, there’s a lot of variety when it comes to different types of sports. i mean it couldbe riding a horse, or you could be going on a water tube playing water polo. stephanie burrough: sophomorewe have golf…we have everything. emily murphy: seniorwe have frisbee golf, mini golf… stephanie burrough: sophomoreyeah. blake morgan: junioroh, i didn’t know we had frisbee golf. hmm,

interesting. stephanie burrough: sophomorewe have everything. blake morgan: juniorthat’s the one where it has like, the basket kind of game? kaitlyn kubacki: junioryeah. blake morgan: juniorgotcha. now, another question is, all of us had to go through soar. so, that is our studentorientation and registration, so who wants to describe a little bit about that? stephanie burrough: sophomoresoar is basically—if you don’t—if you

have any questions about the university, ifyou have questions about registration or classes, that’s where you’re going to get it allanswered. there’s a whole bunch of workshops that you kind of have to go through; there’ssome for you and some specific for your parents as well so that your parent’s aren’t—it’sa two day process for most students, so your parents aren’t just sitting around whileyou’re going through all these sessions. they have sessions of their own as well. ourorientation counselors are great, they’re so excited to have you here; they want tomake this the best experience for you as well. so you kind of go through the whole day, there’s—youcan go into the student activities center and they have a whole bunch of student organizationsyou can start getting involved right then

and there. i remember i signed up to get allof the text message alerts for all of our sporting events so i could get a free t-shirt,so they give you a free t-shirt. i think you may have been able to climb the rock climbingwall while you were there, so they just kind of give you like a quick overview of the universitybefore you get there, and then the final thing that you do when you’re there is registerfor your classes and your orientation counselors are there to kind of help you out and say,“okay, there’s no way you can get from this class to this class in 15 minutes; youmight want to find one closer,” or just kind of little things like that, they’llkind of help you out so that when you get here you’re not completely overwhelmed.

blake morgan: juniorand typically, isn’t it right if you’re an incoming freshman, you have to spend thenight? stephanie burrough: sophomoremhm, and that’s fun too. they have like, movie nights. i know my year we did—we had,like, popcorn and people were just kind of hanging out, just kind of get to know peopleand kind of see the variety of people and the diversity that this university has. blake morgan: juniorand another really cool question was posed—getting a lot of free stuff here on campus, when itcomes to t-shirts, a bunch of giveaways, souvenirs, how many—who here thinks they have the mostfree stuff?

emily murphy: seniorprobably, i don’t know. um, this was free. kaitlyn kubacki: juniori have no proof because it’s all been free food.stephanie burrough: sophomorethis was free. this shirt was free. kaitlyn kubacki: juniori have no proof. stephanie burrough: sophomorethat shirt i got for free. emily murphy: seniorthat shirt was free. blake morgan: juniorthere’s always a lot of options too, like a bunch of different departments and organizationswill bring stuff to football games or come around to the front of the union sponsoringa bunch of different events.

emily murphy: seniori would say the first two weeks of school, go to everything because they’re offering— stephanie burrough: sophomorejust stand in front of the union. kaitlyn kubacki: juniorthat week of welcome. emily murphy: senioryeah, week of welcome, and if they’re not offering t-shirts, or like, fun goodies likelittle teddy bears and things like that, they give you pizza, or hamburgers, they’ll dofree drinks like sodas, waters—it’s awesome. yeah, go collect all that stuff. stephanie burrough: sophomoremy freshman year, the football team was giving

out footballs—just like catch them, we wereall so nervous, like “oh my gosh, i’m going to drop it.” i remember that; i don’tthink i caught mine, to be honest with you. i don’t think i did. blake morgan: juniorawesome. so, all of us have lived on campus, right? which one would you say was your favoriteoption? or it could be the current one. what is your favorite place to live on campus? emily murphy: seniorwell, i lived in—i only every lived in witherspoon hall, and it’s a suite option, and i reallyenjoyed that. i kind got placed there being in the honors college, so that is the honorshousing currently; they actually are getting

levine hall as of next year, so that’s goingto be really, really nice because it’s brand new; the honors offices are actually goingto all be in there so you actually don’t have to leave the residence hall to go andmeet with the people from honors there; they have classes for honors. so that’s goingto be really convenient. but living in the suites is really nice because i had a roommatein a room with me as well, just like you would in a traditional residence hall, but thenwe also had two other suitemates that had their room, but then we all four just shareda bathroom, so there was only four of us to a bathroom. however, we did have to cleanit and take care of it, so if you want to take on that responsibility, it was a greatoption and highly, highly recommend living

on campus. there where i met my room—i actuallyonly have ever lived with the same people too; we still live together today, four yearslater, so being randomly placed worked out really, really well for us. if i hadn’tof lived on campus, i wouldn’t have met them. stephanie burrough: sophomorei’ve only ever lived in hunt hall; i was placed there my freshman year and i got placedthere as a resident advisor this year, so that’s a suite style—it’s either two-bedroomsuite or four-bedroom suite, you can see those layouts online. next year, i will be livingin belk hall, which is an apartment, so that’s more of an upperclassman option; i’ll bea junior so obviously i think i deserve a

kitchen, maybe. maybe, maybe not. so, i thinkliving on campus, i always say, “if i didn’t live on campus, there’s so many events iwouldn’t go to because it’s like—it would be like, “oh, i have to drive,”“oh, i have to find parking.” where here, it’s like, “i’m just going to leaveand i’ll be there in 10 minutes.” so i think it’s definitely a little bit easierto get involved on campus, especially your freshman year because i knew—i know northcarolina students can come down here and they’ll probably know at least one person from theirhigh school, but when i came here, i literally knew not a single person, so i think definitelyliving on campus was the best option so i wasn’t always in my room; i was kind ofout and about going to the dining hall, going

to the student union, going to different eventson campus. they have comedy shows, i think they had the woman from girl code come myfreshman year, so just little events like that to kind of get you out of your comfortzone a little bit quicker than if you were off campus. kaitlyn kubacki: junioryeah, i mean i will i say i lived in lynch hall for that learning community purpose onfreshman year and it’s set up the same way hunt is, and people just leave their doorsopen so you walk by and there’s people with their doors open and you’re like, “hey,how are you, my name is…” it’s just a great way to meet people that if you’re,you know, not living on campus, you may not

get to meet as many people. blake morgan: juniorand i believe now freshmen are allowed to live in traditional, suite, and apartmentstyle. this is the first time, right? blake morgan: juniorthat’s really nice. so, obviously we just talked about living on campus, so when itcomes to eating on campus, how would you describe the food at the dining halls? and what areour two dining halls? emily murphy: seniorthe food is good. food’s really good. our two dining halls are south village diningand crown commons. we call them crown and sovi for short because we like to shorteneverything.

blake morgan: juniorwe love our acronyms. emily murphy: seniorlove the acronyms. but sovi just opened up last year; it’s been a year already, wow. stephanie burrough: sophomorethey had a birthday party. blake morgan: juniorwow! kaitlyn kubacki: juniorwith a dj, and gifts, yeah. emily murphy: seniorooh that feels just like yesterday. stephanie burrough: sophomorea birthday cake. blake morgan: juniora birthday cake?

emily murphy: seniorreally? dang, i missed birthday cake. stephanie burrough: sophomoreit was really good. it was really good. blake morgan: juniori should have been there. emily murphy: seniorman! but yeah, it’s new, it’s a really, really nice facility, it’s huge and there’sso many different options, so if you’re vegetarian, if you have specific dining needs,you can just let them know and they will take care of you. you can make sandwiches, saladbar, soups; they always have like, a home-cooked aisle that you can go down. you’ve got somethingdifferent every meal. so it’s really good. crown is the same food, so it’s the samepeople, so it’s just as good as sovi, and

we have a ton of fast food options aroundcampus. blake morgan: junioroh yeah. emily murphy: seniorso if you’re jumping between classes and need to pick something up real quick and chickfil-a, or subway or panda express, you can do that as well. stephanie burrough: sophomorethere’s food everywhere. emily murphy: senioreverywhere. stephanie burrough: sophomoreand like, even if you’re not at a dining hall, there’s going to be a professor that’sgoing to have candy for you or your friends

are going to bake cookies. i was—i wentto my mailbox in hunt hall the other day and there was just cookies in there, and i waslike, “okay, thank you! i don’t know who these are from, but thank you!” so there’sreally like—food is everywhere. it really…college. college and the food. blake morgan: juniori know, it’s delicious. so when it comes to parking, a lot of questions were asked:“how does parking work at unc charlotte?” so, whoever wants to take that one? kaitlyn kubacki: juniorso, freshmen are allowed to have cars here on campus, and parking generally works ifyou’re a resident here on campus you get

a specific on-campus resident parking pass,so the pass the three years i’ve been here it’s been blue every time. but the nicething about parking at unc charlotte is with your resident hall is your parking is prettyclose. you’re paying for convenience, so it’s really nice and convenient. and thenif you’re a commuter student, you’ll, you know, commuting from home, you’ll havea different pass and it will be—i’ve seen it as yellow, yeah. greek life has, what,white ones if you’re in greek village? so there’s different parking passes for whereyou’re living, but for me parking’s never been an issue, it’s always been pretty easyto park on campus. stephanie burrough: sophomorei know everyone wants to have their car freshman

year. my parents, who are probably watchingthis right now, my parents did not let me—they did not let me have my car freshman year andi was devastated. i was like, “how am i supposed to go to mall?” so i learned howto online shop a little bit more. but even if you do not bring your car on campus orif you don’t have a car, like that’s not an option for you, you’re completely fine.i think about four or five students in my area on my hall had their cars, so when ihad to fly home or if i had to go to the grocery store, i’d be like “hey, i’ll pay you$10.00 if you take me to the grocery store,” and they—like, college kids will do anything,so my neighbors were more than willing to help me out, so i never felt like not havingmy car on campus was a disadvantage. and this

year i’m kind of like, i drive way too muchand i pay way too much for gas, so i kind of liked it last year. but i would say—iwas fine, i didn’t suffer, i was okay. blake morgan: juniorand with that too, even though you may not have a car on campus, you have the on-campustransportation, so that’s really convenient. i believe it runs from like normal businesshours, from six in the morning to ten at night, and they stop about, what, every 10-15 minutes? emily murphy: senioryeah. kaitlyn kubacki: junioryeah, and there’s that app. blake morgan: junioryeah, they do have that app. do you want to

talk a little bit more about that? kaitlyn kubacki: juniorso, yeah, we have a nextride app that you can actually download on your smart phonedevice and it will tell you when the next bus will come through so you’re not sittingat the bus stop waiting for long periods of time. you can actually wait in your residencehall and see, “oh, it’s coming in 15 minutes so i should probably head out.” so yeah,that’s really convenient and that way you know when the next stop is, you can really—itruns off a gps tracking device so you can watch it move on the thing, so it’s reallycool. blake morgan: junioryeah, and unc charlotte is really interactive

with your smart phones…the nextride app,and also doesn’t the police and public safety also have something to do where they sendout text messages? yeah, so talk a little bit about campus safety; what’s been yourexperience with that? emily murphy: seniori’ve been here for four years and i’ve never had a problem with campus safety. unccharlotte is really nice and convenient because it’s all really close together; you canwalk across campus in like 15 minutes. so there’s not a lot of roads you have to cross,there’s not any issues like that. being a large campus, you would think we have, butwe don’t, because of the way they’ve strategically designed our campus. we have the “blue lightsystem” on campus and there’s hundreds

of them all over the place; if you’re standingat one, you can be able to turn a circle and see another one, so those have a big red buttonon them that you can push if you just feel uncomfortable walking home from the librarybecause it’s three in the morning. they will come meet you and help you get home safely.if you are allergic to bees and you get stung in the middle of summer and you don’t haveyour epipen, you can push it and they will come bring medical help to help you. so everything,that’s there for you—the livesafe app that you were talking about, that came outthis year for us and you can download it to any smart phone device. that works as a mobilered button—blue light, so you can actually put in there like, where you are, where you’reheading, and your roommates can see it; the

police here can see it on our campus, andif you for some reason don’t get where you’re supposed to in the time period it probablyshould take you, they can notify the police right from the app and kind of let them knowand show them where it tracked you last. so safety is a big priority here, being in thecity they’re very conscious of that and they’re constantly taking that into consideration.we have our own section of police, unc charlotte police—they’re fully trained police officers,they interchange with the cmpd continually, so they are real, please take them seriously.i’ve watched them arrest people on campus for poking their buttons…speeding tickets,everything. and we also have undercover cops as well that are just walking around on campusdressed like the students here so you would

never know… stephanie burrough: sophomorei did not know that…oh my goodness. emily murphy: senioryeah, and we always have at least 6-10 officers on campus on any given day of the year, whetherit’s a holiday, whether it’s spring break, they’re still here and of course when there’sstudents around, there’s a whole lot more than that, so they take it very, very seriouslyhere. blake morgan: juniorand they’re really approachable too. emily murphy: senioroh yeah, really friendly. blake morgan: juniorthey’ll definitely strike up a conversation

with you. stephanie burrough: sophomorethey’re very friendly. blake morgan: juniorabsolutely. and you mentioned a little bit about like, medicine and stuff like that.so, can students get their medicine here on campus? stephanie burrough: sophomoreso we have our student health center, so i went in there and i really compared it togray’s anatomy, i went for like, an ear infection, but it basically looks like gray’sanatomy; you go in, first, students—you can, the university can provide you with healthinsurance or there’s a fee that you can

get waived if you have your own insuranceas well. there’s a full, functioning pharmacy there so if you do need to have your prescriptionstransferred to the university, that is something you are able to do. there’s also physicaltherapy in that building as well, so if you have some injury that you need to take careof, you can do that there. and they’re very approachable, you just have to make your appointmentsonline, you can probably head in in the next day or two; if it’s something urgent, obviouslythey’ll tell you to go to the hospital, which is literally five minutes away rightup the road. so if you ever have any concerns about your medication or if you just needto have a quick check-up or something like that, that’s definitely something you cando.

blake morgan: juniorso coming into college, you’re obviously with like 28,000 other students, so there’sa lot of different opportunities, specifically also with leadership. so coming in as a freshman,or even a transfer, how can they get involved with all these different, like, types of leadershipopportunities? emily murphy: seniorthe way that i got involved freshman year, right off the bat, is we have the office forleadership development on campus, they’re in the student union; they’re really approachable,you just walk in and say, “hey, what opportunities do you have?” and they’ll be happy tohand you their flyers, give you all their information. that’s a really great placeto find out about leadership opportunities

on campus, but they also have a freshman-onlyprogram called “emerging leaders,” which is where you actually get—it’s kind oflike having another class in your spring semester freshman year, but it’s only once a weekand it’s fun. it’s a lot of fun. it’s where you just come together with a groupof about 50 other freshmen and you have seminars on how to be a public speaker, how to presentyourself in an interview, skills that you wouldn’t think you would need to learn asa freshman, things that you would think, “oh, i’ll need this when i interview for a jobfour years later,” but like, they prove to be really, really beneficial in gettingconnections, in getting future internships, things like that. so that is how i got involvedlearning to be a leader, but you also meet

50 other people that are interested in leadershipthat are likely somehow involved somewhere else on campus, so that’s how i also kindof connected to other types of opportunities later on down the road. stephanie burrough: sophomorefor me, i kind of took a back seat my freshman year first semester because i was overly,overly involved in high school. i was head of a lot of clubs, so my first semester herei kind of took a back seat and kind of looked at the 350 organizations on campus and justtried to find what was going to be the best fit for me. so with that, i was a member ofthe sports marketing association and basically they help out with all of our sporting eventson campus; they help out with the halftime

shows at all the games and things like that,so that was kind of—i’m a marketing major, so that was something i was really passionateabout. and then i found niner guides the next semester and that was probably like one ofthe best things ever. i love being a tour guide, i love giving someone that unc charlotteexperience once a week. and then from there they just kind of started to build on oneby one. so then became cheerleading, and then became resident advisor, and then i feel likeyou always have the opportunity to find something new without overwhelming yourself becauseyou always—you need to know yourself and know what you can handle and the time commitmentsthat you’re going to need to keep up with your academics, but there’s definitely somany opportunities and they’re literally,

like, throwing them at you, like they wantus to be involved. this is our university. we have staked our claim and we need to makesure everyone knows that. blake morgan: juniordid you have anything you wanted to add? kaitlyn kubacki: juniorstephanie covered it all. she really did. blake morgan: juniorawesome, yeah. i think one of the biggest things coming into college, you really wantto do the most you can and a lot of people come in trying to sign up for 10 organizationslike i did, and you slowly start regretting it because it’s really hard to spread outall that time to different organizations. stephanie burrough: sophomoreall your orgs are going to end up meeting

on the same day. it happens all the time. blake morgan: juniori know. stephanie burrough: sophomoreat least in the same week, and you have like five meetings in one day. i’m like, “oh,boy. this is going to be awful.” blake morgan: juniorso what would you say, how do you accommodate with time management and all these differentopportunities and occupations that you have here at the school? how do you struggle withall—not ‘struggle’—how do you deal with all the potential stress that comes withbeing a college student? kaitlyn kubacki: juniori know i have like, a huge calendar in my

room on my wall, and then i also have my individualplanner that i take to my class or my meetings. i mean, i am a work-study student here oncampus, i forgot to mention that earlier, but yeah, i do have a job here on campus.so i am a work study student, i’m a niner guide, i am in several organizations plusschoolwork and stuff. it is a lot, but i think that’s one thing where you have to establishthat organization and teach yourself to do it, so that way you can remember, “hey,i have to go from class and then i have this break to fit in food—gotta fit in food—andthen i have this meeting, and then somehow you gotta throw in homework in there.” soyou know, you know you best. i know freshman year my bedtime, my body shuts down at like10:00 p.m. and, but, all the other kids would

be—i know, that’s early, sorry, grandma—butall the other kids would stay up until like, 12:00. but i knew myself, i had a certainamount of time that i had to get my homework done, so it’s just something that you knowyourself better than anyone else so you have to learn to time management and organize yourschedule. emily murphy: seniorgo ahead. stephanie burrough: sophomoreand like kaitlyn was saying, it’s important to make time for food. it is very easy toforget to eat, but i also, personally, i have to make time for my naps. like i have to havea nap. if i can have time for my naps, i’m going to make time for my naps because, imean you’re going to be doing—it’s not

like school, your normal high school schedulewhere i was there, i know, from, 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., it’s not like you’re doneafter 3:00 p.m. and you can kind of go home and get ready for dinner and things like that.it’s—you might have two classes at 10:00 and 2:00 and then you have dinner at 5:00and then you have an organization meeting at 7:00 and another one at 8:00, and thenyou might have to do your homework starting at 9:30-10:00, so it’s like you have tobe able to—it’s – your days—some of your days may never truly end, per se, soyou need to make sure that you have the time for your naps. i like my naps. my roommatesknow i take my naps. blake morgan: juniorschedules always vary depending on the student.

it’s crazy. and then kaitlyn, you mentionedthat you were in work study? can you elaborate on that a little bit more? kaitlyn kubacki: juniorso work study is something that you are—or i was given through the financial aid office;i was awarded it through financial aid. and so, yeah, the hr office is great here on campusand so i went through the hr office and looked through tons of applications, basically beginningin august and—or job applications out there and filtered through and i applied to severalof them and chose which one i wanted to work in the best and it ended up being a greatfit and i’ve stayed in this office and this is my third year in that same office now,so it’s been a great fit for me.

blake morgan: juniorsweet! so, also with that, when you talked about having a different schedule, do freshmentypically have all their classes at 8:00 in the morning? stephanie burrough: sophomoreno…no. emily murphy: seniori’m a senior here and i’ve had one 8:00 a.m. in my entire career. blake morgan: juniorthat’s awesome! emily murphy: senioryeah, i didn’t have class until 11:00 my freshman year and i was so stoked. some 9:30’s,but they’re not that bad.

stephanie burrough: sophomorei sch—for next semester actually, i scheduled an 8:00 a.m. because the teacher really great.so, and i’m slightly a morning person, it depends on the day but if i know i’m goingand the teacher’s gonna be great and i’m going to do well in the class, then i thinkit’s definitely worth it. but you’re not gonna get stuck with all 8:00 a.m.’s, ipromise. the way that they do soar last time i heard, is that they don’t— if you cometo the first soar session and your friend doesn’t come until the last soar session,they still might be able to get in the same class as you because they don’t open upall the seats for each soar session. so for the first soar session, if there’s an accountingclass at 12:30 that everybody wants because

they want sleep in, they’re not going toopen all the seats for that class for the first soar session so that everyone has anequal opportunity to get in their classes. and that was not there when i was a freshman,so you guys are gonna get lucky with that one. blake morgan: junioryeah, and emily, you said you lived in witherspoon hall, alright? which is home to—well, currently,home to our honors college before they go into levine hall. emily murphy: senioryes. blake morgan: juniorso we have one question that says pretty much

they’re in the honors college but they wantto room with someone who’s not in the honors college, and how will this affect them, iguess? they were just wondering about that. emily murphy: seniorwell, the way that—only kids who are in the honors college are able to live in thehonors housing because that’s allotted to them and it’s specific for them, so unfortunatelyif you want to live with someone who’s not in the honors college, you’re not goingto be able to live there unless you’re willing to sacrifice living with that person. butthat doesn’t negatively affect you at all. they don’t—the honors college doesn’tget a list that says, “this is who lives here, give them priority for this, this, andthis.” that’s not how it works. if you’re

in the honors college and you’re currentwith what you need to have to be an active member, you still get the priority registration,you still get everything that you need whether you live in witherspoon or not. so, the housingthing is more just a perk that you get, so if you want to have the suite option and beguaranteed that housing, you can, but it’s not like they mandate that you have to livethere. if you have somewhere else that you’ve preferenced, you can still be in the honorscollege and live there too. blake morgan: juniorand then too, when you come to the class, obviously you have that man or woman of thehour, the instructor, so what has been your experience with the instructors here at unccharlotte?

stephanie burrough: sophomorei think they’re great. emily murphy: seniorthey are. stephanie burrough: sophomorei don’t think—i have yet to have a negative experience with any of my professors hereand i think that’s something really important to stress that if i have to go to office hours,if i have questions during class, they’re going to be willing to help me. i’ve neverfelt rushed…information, they can point me in the right direction, they get otherresources on campus, so i don’t think our professors—our professors are great. i thinkit’s important, especially in business, that a lot of our professors have that handson experience—

blake morgan: juniorabsolutely. stephanie burrough: sophomoreand i know my accounting teacher is a certified cpa and he actually came back years laterand decided that he wanted to teach, so it wasn’t like he came out of college and wentright into teaching; he started as an actual accountant and then came for teaching, sothat’s definitely helpful when we have real-life examples and real-life, just, he has real-lifeexperience with the field that he’s trying to teach us. emily murphy: seniorso i think—i’ve never had a negative experience either. like i said, my classes are generallysmaller so you get the chance to really get

to know them. i’ve, like you said, you scheduledan 8:00 a.m. because you knew the professor was great. i’ve had several professors’multiple times over just because i purposely took their class because whether or they weremy absolute favorite or not, i knew how they worked and i could deal with that. so i thinkthe biggest thing coming into college is just being understanding that they are the authorityfigure and be respectful and kind of approach them on those terms and definitely don’twalk in there, kind of, if you go into office hours, go in saying, “hey, i don’t understandthis, i need your help.” don’t be like, upfront about it because then they might gettheir bristles up a little bit because they have—they’re definitely experts in theirfields. but they’re all very approachable,

they want—they’re here to help us, that’stheir job. so if they didn’t enjoy that, they wouldn’t be here. so definitely takeadvantage of them because there are some very bright people on this campus. kaitlyn kubacki: juniori will say at the end there’s always those professor evaluations, so positive or negativefeedback—that’s a very professional way to get your voice heard, you know, toward--about that professor. so i think—and i—every professor i’ve encountered has always said,you know, first day of class, “well, i got this feedback about pop quizzes or my testlast semester so i kind of tweaked it a little bit this semester,” so they really do valuethose opinions and i think that’s a great

resource too to get your voice heard by theprofessor. emily murphy: seniorand those are anonymous and they don’t get to see them until after final grades are alreadyin so it doesn’t affect us at all. so. blake morgan: junioryeah, so one of the best things i really pride upon about unc charlotte is the diversity.so how would you guys elaborate more on that with the diversity here at the university? stephanie burrough: sophomorei think unc charlotte was the first school i visited out of all the schools i visitedwhere i could physically see the diversity when i was walking around campus and thatwas something very important to me because

my high school was not very diverse at all,so i definitely wanted to see different races, religions, personalities, you just kind of—younever know what you’re going to get here. i could walk up to somebody and have a completelydifferent experience than i was expecting to have and i think that’s something thatis important because when we get into the real world, it’s not just going to be everyonethat looks the same, everyone that acts the same; it’s going to be so many differentpeople and so many different personalities so i think that’s helpful in group projectsor just—just learning about different cultures i think something i think is very importantto do. i think campus activities board does a great job of kind of keeping us involvedwith what’s going on campus, or like campus

ministries, or just different—we have sucha variety of organizations that just kind of show the diversity within itself, whichis being able to walk on campus and see that as well, which is something that is just amazingto me. kaitlyn kubacki: juniorso you studying abroad, but i was going to mention too, which the diversity and we—wehave an international fest on campus every year. emily murphy: seniorso awesome. kaitlyn kubacki: junioryeah, great food, and then, you know, for me, i’m not comfortable just sending myselfaway from home that long or that far so kudos

to you for, you know, going away out of thecountry. but yeah, so i’m not that comfortable, so the international fest gives me a chanceto walk around on campus and see the different, you know, countries showcased by the studentswho are from those countries. you know, they’re dressed in their general outfits that theywear in their countries from their cultures, and the food that they have-- stephanie burrough: sophomoreoh, the food is so good. kaitlyn kubacki: juniori mean it’s all just—it’s a great experience and it’s something that you don’t haveto leave the campus, you know, study abroad, take that leap if you’re not comfortablewith it. it’s a great opportunity, great

experience here at unc charlotte. stephanie burrough: sophomorei just love the food. blake morgan: juniorand about study abroad, do you want to talk about that? your experience? emily murphy: senioryeah! my experience—great experience studying abroad. i highly, highly, highly, highly recommendit for anyone even considering it. check into it, do it, it’s amazing. unc charlotte,they offer a lot of opportunities for us to study abroad; they really push for us to dothat, and it’s really, really easy, actually to do it. so we can go for a semester or ayear, depending on what you’re comfortable

doing. i went for a summer program becausei wasn’t able to leave during semesters since i’m a teacher, there are certain obligationsi have to do within schools here and it gets a little tricky when you take it out of thecountry for licensure purposes. so that wasn’t realistic for me semesterly, but i was ableto go last summer. i was in manchester, england for about two months, just under two months,and that was like the perfect amount of time because i love to travel and i love goingother places, so that wasn’t like, outside of my comfort zone for me, but for someonewho was because many of the other people on the trip with me maybe weren’t super comfortableeither. it was like the perfect amount of time to get integrated into the culture andget a different look at the world, but just

about when you started really missing home,it was time to go home. so there are those options, that’s one of the longer summerprograms that we have; a lot of them are anywhere from three to four weeks usually. mine wasabout a six, six-and-a-half-week program. so those are certainly some options there.we also have spring break programs, so you actually—one of my sisters did it this yearand she had an amazing time, but you basically have a class where you meet with your professorhere on campus once or twice throughout the beginning of the semester and then you actuallygo for 10 days over spring break to where—whatever country or program you’re doing, and thenwhen you come back, you kind of like, do your follow up academic work and you get threehours of academic credit for it, so… and

the nice thing about the summer programs isthey’re all led by a unc charlotte professor that goes with you so you’re not completelyon your own and you’re going with unc charlotte students, so you have—whether you know themor not at the beginning, at the end you know them very, very well and you have familiarfaces with you. so, highly recommend studying abroad; look into it if you’re even curiousbecause it’s a great opportunity. blake morgan: juniorand then being a resident advisor, so you’ve had a lot of experience with the roommates,the difficulties, the ups, the downs, the room search policy, you want to elaborateabout that kind of stuff? stephanie burrough: sophomoreso, at unc charlotte, you do not—we do not

have a specific roommate survey, per se, becausewe feel that people are not as honest on those and they just kind of want a good roommate.so basically from my personal experience, i went into the “class of 2018” facebookgroup and that is where i found my roommate and my best friends, so that’s kind of whereyou start. but with that process you just kind of put in there your—your potentialroommate’s information, and 9 times out of 10 if you have it all put together, theassignments office will just drag and drop you into a room and that will probably bein one of your top options. once you get to your room, there is going—each semesterthere is going to be kind of like a list, like a “honey do” list of kind of whatstudents want in the—i know—what students

kind of really want in their specific room.so there’s going to be rules for the entire building, so you vote for visitation and thingslike that, but then afterwards you’re going to make a kind of list of things you wantspecifically for your room, so if you want this between 5:00 and 7:00 to be quiet becausethat’s going to be your study hour, or you want to make sure there’s no guests after10:00 p.m., things like that. that’s something that you can customize for yourself, and thenif things don’t work out, things arise throughout the year, obviously that’s kind of whati’m there for, that’s what they’re paying me for. so if there are literally any issuesat all on campus, i have duty nights probably about once a week, so if there’s any issuesthat i need to take care of, i’m kind of

like, in charge of the building for abouteight hours. blake morgan: juniorawesome, thanks for the response. so looks like we’re almost about out of time, soi’m going to pose one more question to our panel. so what is your favorite traditionwhile being here at unc charlotte? emily murphy: seniormy favorite would be homecoming week. the whole week is like, an awesome experience.they do the lights parade the night before the big game on saturday, and that’s wheredifferent organizations on campus can make floats and they put lights on them and balloons;they usually throw candy, which is why i’m always there, because we talked about thefree stuff. i’m there. they give out t-shirts,

they have all the football players, cheerleaders,dance team—they’re all out performing, kind of –we have the union takeovers oncea month through the campus activities board when the union stays open late for studentsand they have fun events; that month it’s always on that weekend and we just have abig pep rally. so the coaches come out and you get to meet them and talk to them andit’s just a really, really fun experience, but there’s also stuff going on throughoutthe entire week. so there’s competitions between different groups on campus, there’scampus clean-up, so if you want to give back to campus making it pretty for homecoming.and of course all the alumni coming back on campus is really cool—get to talk to them,because our campus is rapidly changing, as

he mentioned we are being a part of this historyand hearing from people who are also part of it, but many years before, is a reallycool experience. stephanie burrough: sophomoreeverything i was gonna say…yeah, i definitely think homecoming week is probably one of myfavorite traditions on campus because of the lights parade and just kind of being a cheerleader,i got to cheer for the homecoming game; it was my first homecoming game that i got tocheer, so just kind of seeing the atmosphere with all the alumni there, and cheering inthe alumni section, which is kind of like a great experience and you just kind of seewhat unc charlotte is capable of as far as school spirit and our alumni, as well as currentstudents. so that’s definitely something

that i think was really great. i know my parentsdrove down at 3:00 in the morning just to make it in time for the game. it’s justan amazing environment to be on the field and see our football team, and see all ofour peers just in the stadium and the environment that just kind of comes about with homecomingbecause again, it’s not just the game, it’s a comedy show, it’s—i know there was funnelcake, i keep thinking of the funnel cake. there’s funnel cake and there’s just theparades and you meet the homecoming court throughout the week and things like that,and then the homecoming king and queen and prince and princess are crowned during halftimeat the football game, so just that kind of environment just kind of—to see like, wevoted for these people to represent our university

and seeing all that come to life, all at theend of homecoming week is really great. kaitlyn kubacki: junioryeah, so mine is the 49er gold rush 5k event, and my friends and i all like to sign up andgo for the t-shirt, and then we run our couple laps around campus, and then we go to i hopand shove our face with pancakes. so, it kind of defeats the purpose of the run, but that’sdefinitely something that i’ve established with all my friends since freshman year andit’s something we love to do. blake morgan: junioryeah, i think my favorite tradition has always been the first home football game every singleseason, just having that hype again, seeing the whole stadium with seats, about 15,000individuals, just painted in green, gold,

and white. and then the fireworks come out.norm, our, mascot, comes—it’s just awesome to be a part of. but yeah, so i want to thankyou guys so much for posing all the questions to us. if we were unable to answer any ofyour questions, feel free to look at the chat box below for twitter or also e-mail us atadmissions@uncc.edu. so, thank you again so much. thank you emily, stephanie, and kaitlynfor offering pretty much your experience here at unc charlotte. other than that, have agreat afternoon and we look forward to seeing you soon. go niners!