As my undergraduate career at UNC comes to a close this semester, I've often reflected on the advantages of a liberal arts education. Because of the university's "Connections & Approaches" requirements for general education, I've taken classes I would have never given a second thought, and have walked away with...

If you Google "Top Journalism Schools", there is not a single article on the first page that doesn't mention UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Journalism and Mass Communication's stellar undergraduate and graduate programs. I am a bit biased as a student of the J-School at UNC, but there's a...

As far as I know, no one has ever accused political campaigns of bringing out the best in people. This election cycle is the first I have really been plugged into -- though I've always been interested in politics, having just completed my political science degree, finishing a second major...

I have a few minor addictions -- honestly, the biggest one is to candy (SweeTarts and Jolly Ranchers, mostly) -- and the other is iPhone/Game Boy games. I guess what I'm trying to intimate is that I'm a chubby 8-year-old boy.

Last summer, I considered myself quite the young...

About 270,000 students travel each year to study abroad -- a number that has almost tripled in the past two decades. I'm one of the lucky mass making the exodus to the United Kingdom this summer and just in time for the London Olympics.

I've been fortunate enough...