Column: The (Im)possibility of Resuming Normal
After a three-hour shooting lockdown, most of us celebrated the last Alert Carolina message on Monday, Aug. 28: “It's safe to resume normal activities,” it announced.
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After a three-hour shooting lockdown, most of us celebrated the last Alert Carolina message on Monday, Aug. 28: “It's safe to resume normal activities,” it announced.
On March 29, the N.C. General Assembly voted to override Gov. Roy Cooper's veto on Senate Bill 41. The bill repealed the requirement to obtain a permit from a local sheriff before purchasing a handgun.
I started writing this article from the dark, sterile basement of Granville West, wedged between my backpack and two classmates who also evacuated Chapman Hall. We collectively munched on the stale Doritos that the Granville staff provided, as we huddled around my phone for news updates about the shooting on campus.
TW: This article mentions gun violence and death.
At a press conference about five hours after the shooting on the University’s campus, UNC Police Chief Brian James confirmed his forces had initially detained the wrong person.
Five months ago, I made a promise to you. As editor-in-chief of The Daily Tar Heel, I said I’d redesign The DTH’s website to be dynamic and user-centric.
The summer internship season has dwindled to a close, as the rush of LinkedIn recaps dies down and students begin the school year. For some, though, it’s already time to start pivoting to the next internship opportunity — or the deadline to secure a new one has arrived.
For my whole life, I have felt the need to work harder than most of my white peers if I wanted to be given the same opportunities. I strained myself trying to be perfect so I could be considered by what I deemed to be the right universities.
Almost as soon as I had stepped foot within the lift, the elevator operator's query, delivered with a keen edge, cut through the air.
Simply based on my easy demeanor and overall likable personality, you might not be aware of the fact that I’m a workaholic. I like working. Correction: I like getting home at the end of the day knowing I have worked. Contributing to my overall development and learning new things makes me feel good about myself. Just head over to my LinkedIn to see all the corporate jargon I abuse to pass myself off as an employable person.
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I touched down on American soil in mid-May, after four months of studying abroad in Barcelona. Everything was different.
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My first story at The Daily Tar Heel was about the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education working out a way to evaluate its superintendent. I left class in Carolina Hall at 6:15 p.m. on a Thursday and sat down in the Student Union soon after for the virtual meeting at 6:30 — stressed out of my mind.
I’ve lived in Chapel Hill for what feels like forever, so while moving into my South Campus dorm last fall wasn’t a change of place, it was definitely a big change of pace.
I am not the first person to share this advice, nor will I be the last. Moving into your first college dorm room is a formative experience in your young adult life and I’m here to make sure you have everything you need to be a full-time Tar Heel.
When I got to UNC in August 2020, I had just spent five months isolated from the outside world. After March 2020, when Wake County Public Schools shut down, my world was never the same.
While sitting down to write this column that is now past due (sorry, Caitlyn), the only thing that comes to my mind is the first time I walked into The Daily Tar Heel office.
Everything becomes more vivid when you’re about to say goodbye. And now that I’ve written that, it sounds goofy. But it’s true.