My
Background
Major: English
Hometown: Greenville, NC
Freshman
CONTACT MEGAN
Never, not in a million, billion, trillion years, did I think I would ever
end up at UNC-Chapel Hill. Not when I was growing up in Louisville, Kentucky.
Not when I moved to Greenville, NC when I was 11 ½. Not when I was touring
colleges in eleventh grade. Not even when I got accepted to UNC-CH in January
of 2004 my senior year. Never, never, never.
When I was deciding on a university not too long ago, I didn’t want
the college students to tell me their favorite food (chocolate), their career
plans (professor of English and creative writing) or random, seemingly interesting
facts about them (I am an Oprah fanatic, I am a morning person who likes eight
hours of sleep a night, and my best friend is my identical twin sister).
This
experience isn’t about us; in fact, we have it easy, we already know
where we are meant to be. This experience is about YOU! And all I ever wanted
anyone to tell me was that I didn’t have to be born knowing that I would
go to Carolina. I deserved better than to be pressured or ‘convinced’ to
go here. Just because so many other students go to UNC-CH, that didn’t
mean I wasn’t special and unique. And I could be happy wherever I went – the
experience would always be what I would make of it. So…
- You don’t have to be born knowing that you will go to Carolina. (If
you are, that makes it that much easier!) It’s okay to not know, even
after you’ve decided where to go, whether it will ‘work out.’ Although
it may say so on the forms you sign, college is never a final decision, but
you won’t know for sure unless you give it a shot.
- You shouldn’t be pressured or ‘convinced’ to go to any
university, not by your friends, not by your high school, not by your parents,
not even by yourself.
- You are special and unique! There is no one else on this earth quite like
you! Your distinct perspective and vision will be appreciated throughout
your life, before, during, and long after college.
- You can be happy no matter where you go – the experience really is
what you make of it!
I didn’t think I would ever go to UNC-CH. And yet, here I am, so in
love with this place that I am going to spend all the time I can sharing it
with potential first-year students like you!
I want to help you make this decision
easier for you than it was for me – even if you do not choose Carolina.
For a long time, I didn’t think I would. But I know now that, although
I may not be a North Carolinian by birth, I am a Carolinian at heart.
Best wishes in everything!
Megan
