does NC like Californians?! advice needed!!

BedHead
Tue, 29 May 2007 09:19:17 +0000

Monsheree:

My only regret about going to Berkeley when I did was that it was so close to home in California. Going there was a great experience, but it was one that I “made up for” by moving overseas quickly after graduation and then attending graduate school Back East.

I default always to telling people to move somewhere else for school. And what an opportunity you would have with UNC. I have a list of about 10 schools that if I had to spend my life as a perpetual student I would want to attend for awhile and UNC is right at the top of them.

It doesn’t seem that you could go wrong, and I actually think that the culture of the South can be a pretty good fit with people who like the Northern California milieu – different enough to be really educational yet similar enough to be comfortable. (Though Northern California’s been getting more and more non-Northern Californian in the past 10-15 years. : ( )

I say go to UNC, and if you want to go to grad school, you can always go to Berkeley then.