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It’s that time of year again.
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It’s that time of year again.
Picture this: you are ten weeks deep into the semester, attempting to juggle five classes, three extracurriculars and some vague semblance of a social life. You’re running on a solid five hours sleep, a Celsius and the remaining straws of hope for a 4.0. Your professor turns around to you, hours before a 3000 word deadline and says “try not to stress too much, use your essay as a space to dream!”
April is right around the corner, which only means one thing — it’s time to open up ConnectCarolina and fill up your shopping cart like it’s $100 worth of groceries.
Entering college is an opportunity to explore yourself and your future. It is a chance to form new connections, explore new interests, to possibly redefine who you are in a new environment. This is beneficial in a social sense, but attempting to apply this principle in an academic context is more difficult at UNC, especially regarding choosing your major.
One of the most common pieces of advice that people gave me (often unsolicitedly) before starting my first semester of college was to not sign up for any morning classes. They told me that I wasn’t in high school anymore, so I had the freedom to choose my own schedule, and God forbid I would have to be out of bed before the clock said “p.m.”
UNC students have long been fulfilling their general education requirements through 'classic' courses, but after taking mainstay electives and major courses, students may find themselves looking for something a little more specific and niche.
As a previous instructor of the boxing club, UNC fifth-year Eszter Rimanyi is using her skills another way.
Editor's note: This article is satire.
On Oct. 2, the UNC student body received an email from the Office of the University Registrar announcing new changes to ConnectCarolina.
With the promise of greater academic success in college and higher graduation rates, many high school students opt to take higher-level courses, such as advanced placement classes.
At schools like UNC, there are thousands of students pursuing the same hyper-competitive fields like medicine, computer science and public health. But not everyone finishes with these degrees. There is a system present to make sure only a select best will be able to succeed, and it starts with weed-out classes.
Ah, the righteous semi-annual affair that rivals the insanity of a Macy’s Black Friday Sale: course enrollment.
UNC will require a new general education curriculum known as IDEAs in Action for incoming first-years and transfer students who enroll in fall 2022. The curriculum will help students design their own educational journey at the University.
As a first-year student, course registration can be overwhelming. However, UNC has an array of unique courses geared directly toward incoming students that have no prior college experience.
As a new class of UNC students prepares to step onto campus for the first time, some rising juniors and seniors offered their advice to the incoming Tar Heels.
It’s the most stressful part of the year.
The time to register for spring courses is upon us, and UNC has rolled out a new registration process for students. Enrollment times — now based on credit hours — are over the course of four weeks, in which students can first register for up to 12 hours before registering for up to 17 during their second enrollment appointment.
CLARIFICATION: A previous version of this article misstated if UNC offers content creation classes. The University offers New Media Technologies: Their Impact on the Future of Advertising, Marketing, and Public Relations and The Branding of Me. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for this error.
The University registrar’s announcement of a revamped course registration experience was intended to improve degree progress for transfer students. Nevertheless, it continues to miss the mark.
On my first day back to in-person learning, my physics professor announced that we’d be using math concepts that we should have already learned to understand advanced physics theories.