At first, all my parents gave me was the disappointed look and said, "you know what you should do; it's your decision." I had told them my plans to quit my part-time job at Home Town Pharmacy at the start of my senior year and was awfully surprised to hear this nonchalant response: "it's your decision." With no obligation to do what my parents advised and the decision completely my own, I began to reconsider my options. All the choices...

I sit at my desk in my AP Government class, prepared to take this unit’s test on federalism and start fiddling with my pen. As I move it from one side of the desk to another, turning it between my fingers, I notice the words on it, which they have never stood out to me before now: “Home Town Discount Pharmacy.” I see and lose so many of these pens in one week, they have never held any significance...

After visiting the campus, researching the opportunities to get involved, and talking with other enrolled students that already attended UNC, I realized there was a special drive here that I had not come across anywhere else. There is always...

Something that stood out in my application process was having an after-school job my junior and senior years of high school. While some students had jobs during the summer, I...