Residence Life
Kelly Hook reflects on her experiences living on campus (Carroll Hall) as an NC State student.
Interview on 2012-05-02 00:00:00 -0400
Transcript
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I lived in Carroll Hall when I was a freshman and then I moved to Watauga when I was a sophomore.
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I moved off campus my junior and senior year.
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Carroll Hall was an experience that I wouldn't trade for the world.
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I would never go back and live there now but when I was living there I learned how to live with ten other girls,
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for one, or nine other girls. I guess I was the tenth.
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You leave your room
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and you can go walk to the cafeteria, it's about a block away,
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and that experience alone is something you'll never have again in your life, really.
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I mean I guess you can live next to a bakery or something later,
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but being able to get up in the morning and go get your breakfast, you pull out your books from your book bag and you're studying for class.
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You see other people that live in your suite or your dorm or the next residence hall, they're there too,
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and you just have this big community that you don't even realize that you're a part of,
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and you can't have that off campus. It would be impossible.
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Basically you walk to and from your class to your dorm and in that commute you experience so many things,
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so many giveaways for example, tons of free food on the Brickyard and across campus,
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tons of educational opportunities and chances to talk with people that you've met because you lived on campus.
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So, yeah, it was a pretty cool experience. Watauga is near the design school so my second year it was pretty different, being near the design school, little more quiet.
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I was a little more focused on trying to make the grades so that worked out for me, but Carroll Hall and the "Tri-Towers" is where it's at.
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