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What is life like on campus? Does a lot of social activity take place on campus? Are there a lot of campus activities? How is campus dining?

I attended UNC-Wilmington for my BA and MA and it was a wonderful campus.  UNC-W has many, many social organizations and clubs, sororities and fraternities, etc.  It is extremely active.  When I attended, campus dining was good; however, so many people live off-campus that when I attended, not many students utilized on-campus dining.  Now, since they have built more dormitories, I am sure more students use it.

I got my master's at UNC-Chapel Hill in the early 1980s. Back then, Dean Smith was still the basketball coach and the Tarheels were always in the top 5. In fact, the year I finished was the year of the shocking upset of UNC by NC State. You could have heard a pin drop on campus that night. I haven't been back since I graduated, but I can tell you that Chapel Hill is a university town. That is, the town would be just a little village without the university. You'll never need to eat on campus because there are so many little restaurants and cafes around. I lived in the graduate student dorm and had my own refrigerator and toaster oven. Nowadays, of course, you can have a microwave and other things. I loved the time I spent at Carolina and count it as a special time in my life.

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