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Choosing NC State
Interviewees describe what led them to attend NC State.
Applying to NC State
John Atkins explains his interest in architecture as the reason he applied to college at NC State.
Choosing NC State
Blas P. Arroyo describes how he decided to study pulp and paper science at NC State.
Choosing NC State
J. Robert Cooke talks about realizing an interest in agricultural engineering while in high school and deciding to enroll in the program at NC State.
Choosing NC State
John Earnhardt discusses how, while he was in high school, he decided to study engineering and therefore to attend NC State.
Choosing NC State
James Hankins discusses how NC State's political science and Teaching Fellows programs influenced his decision to attend the university.
Choosing NC State
Governor James Baxter Hunt, Jr. discusses why he chose to attend NC State, as well as his decision to change his major.
Choosing NC State
William Jackson discusses how an early interest in electricity led to him to study electrical engineering at NC State.
Choosing NC State
Ed Stack talks about how he always wanted to attend NC State.
Choosing NC State
Chandler Thompson talks about wanting to attend NC State even from an early age.
Family Traditions
Smedes York talks about the York family tradition of attending NC State, always wanting to be in the family business, and always wanting to go to NC State.
State College School of Textiles
William Friday describes the School of Textiles in the 1940s and recalls what it was like to operate textile machines.
Transferring to NC State
William Friday describes his transition from Wake Forest College to NC State College and the difficulties associated with attending college during the Great Depression.
Transferring to NC State
Cathy Sterling discusses transferring from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied music, to NC State.
Why NC State
Terry Carroll cites Sputnik and his interest in rockets as his motivation to attend NC State to study aerospace engineering.
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