As students begin to travel home, Thanksgiving break marks the start of several time-honored holiday traditions.
College students around the country will find themselves pigging out on Mamaw’s famous creamed corn, exploring unknown coat closets to hide from creepy Uncle Steve and his slightly racist jokes and, most importantly, setting up camp outside malls for a minimum of three hours before they open to prey on innocent cashiers and Black Friday’s best bargains.
This year, my family is revolutionizing the Thanksgiving dinner.
Starting at 2 p.m. Thanksgiving Day, the Goins family is setting up camp in the mall parking lot with a spread so massive it would put an NFL tailgate to shame. We’ll be locked and loaded on the frontlines, ready to storm the gates of Belk and guarantee ourselves the biggest savings.
Nothing says Thanksgiving quite like trampling a crowd and ripping a pair of 50 percent off boots from the wrinkly grasp of a grandmother as you watch her sink to the bottom of the human pyramid. Only the strong survive.
But do UNC students have the same cutthroat mentality as my family when it comes to Black Friday?
First-year Katie Holt (left)
Chemistry major