UNC in the recession

smbsmom
Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:45:28 +0000

Wouldn’t it be great if keepittoyourself could drink some of eadad’s koolaid. You two are the yin and yang of these threads!! I did love keepittoyourself’s self-admitted gasp when she agreed with eadad on something the other day.

I have wondered, keepittoyourself, if in the same way you are hard on UNC–the university that will grant your degree–you might be really hard on your mom. I wonder because most of us work to see and promote the good in the hand we’re dealt or the lot we picked, but not you. You seem to enjoy casting aspersions on UNC. Perhaps you seek only to balance eadad’s carolina blue sunny disposition or, maybe just maybe, you’ve been logging on from Durham all along.

As for the question about how the recession will affect UNC and the op’s choice between Wash U and UNC. As others have stated there are too many other striking contrasts between these two schools to let the question of budgetary cutbacks be the deciding factor. You either want a public university experience–with all its advantages (eadad!) and disadvantages (keepittoyourself!) or you want to play/pay it safe. You’ll be in some big classes at UNC, but not all the time and not as you advance in your major.