any alumni of these esteemed residences

12/8/2022 10:35:32 AM

I mean, I've definitely been in all of those, but not lived in 'em.

Lee and Becton Hall alumni representing

12/8/2022 10:48:03 AM

sullivan alum

12/8/2022 10:53:34 AM

man I hate the quad

12/8/2022 11:05:41 AM

I spent some time in all of those, but I never lived in there.

12/8/2022 12:08:36 PM

I lived next to Tucker in Owen and used the Tucker computer lab all the time.

12/8/2022 12:17:37 PM

Stayed in Wood Hall freshman year and that placed sucked donkey cock.

12/8/2022 12:17:43 PM

Sullivan - Freshman year 02-03

12/8/2022 12:25:50 PM

I got drunk a lot in both wood and tucker

12/8/2022 1:48:51 PM

Tucker if you wanna meet more people. In hall style, you get to meet just about everyone on your floor.

Sullivan if you have a group of people you know well and will be hanging out with. In suite style, you get to know your suite mates pretty well but probably won't be getting to know the other people on your floor.

Can't speak for Wood, as I have no experience with it.

12/8/2022 2:21:38 PM

Lol i lived on a hall and knew like 3 whole people counting my roommate

[Edited on December 8, 2022 at 2:25 PM. Reason : But i used to buy stuff from a certain tww user at the quad cstore]

12/8/2022 2:24:23 PM

I lived in Metcalf for one year, which is close to Tucker.

Tucker is hall style and you get a personal sink in your room.

Wood is out in the sticks.

Sullivan is close to Fountain Dining Hall, if meal convenience is your thing. NC Teaching Fellows lived in Sullivan when I was there.

KatieInOwen might have experience with all 3 and can help you.

12/8/2022 2:30:06 PM

Quote :

"Lol i lived on a hall and knew like 3 whole people counting my roommate"

Were you one of the ones that kept your door shut all the time? I lived in Owen freshman year. Any time my roommate or I were there (and not sleeping), we'd leave our door open. Most people on the hall did the same thing. It was an open invite to come in and say hi so after the first month, most of us knew each other. Admittedly that was 20 years ago, but I'm still close friends with some of the people I met back then.

12/8/2022 2:35:49 PM

Justin's just a jerk

Metcalf & Syme here, neither had A.C.

12/8/2022 3:20:15 PM

Wood Hall, 98/99, 99/00, 00/01!
Glad I was able to walk down to Reynolds for all of the home BBall games.
And walk across the street to Rockola and the ABC Store.

12/8/2022 3:29:11 PM

Wood Hall 95/96.

I know in my time here, Mission Valley has never seen a renovation (albeit an addition) since.

12/8/2022 3:34:57 PM

I was an RA in Wood, 00/01

12/8/2022 3:45:15 PM

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"Were you one of the ones that kept your door shut all the time? I lived in Owen freshman year. Any time my roommate or I were there (and not sleeping), we'd leave our door open"

nah i just lived on the very end of the hall and 90% of the time i just used the door right next to me to go outside.

12/8/2022 4:03:12 PM

Lived in Owen in '98/99 and Tucker in '99/00. Nobody ever shut their door. Unless you were one of those people.

12/8/2022 4:26:34 PM

12/8/2022 4:35:20 PM

Lee Hall alum here. Loved suite style but wish i would have lived in a hall style

12/8/2022 4:54:00 PM

I lived on the ground floor in Owen 1999-2000, and apart from my roommate, it was fantastic. Open doors like others have mentioned, always someone to hang out with. The Owen Underground. Grandmoph, who told me about the Wolf Web, was one of my dormmates.

12/8/2022 5:30:34 PM

started in Owen. was an RA in Turlington

12/8/2022 6:23:45 PM

Quote :

"Sullivan - Freshman year 02-03"

Same down to the year. Yo homie, yo!

Bragaw for two years after that.

I stayed in Wood for a week during a summer program while still in high school. Don't remember too much detail about the room format. It was indeed kind of away from everything else, but that could be nice. Close to the track!

12/8/2022 7:16:40 PM

Sullivan 905 - 2000-2003

12/8/2022 10:16:53 PM

Iirc, wood was like 4 room suites with a little common area and bathroom. Or maybe they were 2 room, idk it's been a long time.

Also people at wood could eat at the superior dining hall with the rest of east campus

12/8/2022 10:26:30 PM

Quote :

"But i used to buy stuff from a certain tww user at the quad cstore"

Oh shoot, I used to work there right after (or maybe before) a certain other TWW user would work.

That was the slowest C-Store, amazing how much free time there was compared to working at Bragaw.

12/8/2022 11:01:39 PM

FroshKiller

Your mention of the computer lab reminds me if a thought I was having the other day.
Perhaps I am romanticising a past I never knew given that we have it much easier now, but when I imagine college or work without all the technology we have today it just sounds like it was much more involved and real in a way. Now it just feels like we're always plugged into some software or the other and I hate it, but hey we have google and stack overflow.

12/9/2022 3:19:31 AM

justinh524, I can confirm that that dining hall is still superior

in my opinion, case>fountain>clark
fountain gets all the hate but I have a soft spot for it

12/9/2022 3:29:40 AM

Clark >>>> fountain

12/9/2022 7:19:18 AM

emnsk said:

Quote :

"Perhaps I am romanticising a past I never knew given that we have it much easier now, but when I imagine college or work without all the technology we have today it just sounds like it was much more involved and real in a way."

I don't want to write five thousand words sounding like an old man and shit, but when I was in school--the years the Wolf Web was created and thrived--you could feel what a transitional period it was.

I sent someone this in a PM earlier this year:

Quote :

"I don't know if I'd say I'm keeping anything going. I don't post with anything near the frequency I used to, mostly because there just aren't that many people I give a shit about to interact with. Facebook did a number on this place years ago, but these fucking idiot aliases have done just as much damage in my opinion. The community (for me, anyway) went far beyond the site itself. My first year on the Wolf Web, I went through school without a car. I relied heavily on getting rides from users. I'd post threads at all hours asking for a ride here or there, and I was never picky. Wound up meeting so many people that way, because when people give you a ride, they often bring someone else along or wind up taking you on some errand of theirs. I remember a car full of people stopping on Dan Allen to pick me up spontaneously because DirtyGreek recognized me from the Photo Gallery. We wound up eating at Five Star, and that's how I met a lot of folks. That's what made it unique, you know. Almost every user was about the same age and living in the same place, and a lot of them knew some of the same people. You could just sign up and tap into that if you wanted. Anyway, "older" is one thing, but other changes in the world have affected the site more than its users aging in my opinion. But that was unavoidable. I think it was a moment in time that forged connections, and once we lost the chance to connect people because they stopped coming, all the site was ever gonna be was a kind of document of those connections. I don't care for nostalgia, but I still feel when I click someone's photo gallery and see a photo I'd never seen before of someone I haven't thought about in years. What's reassuring is that so much of the site is just still here. Anyone could log back in and pick back up for the most part."

12/9/2022 9:00:54 AM

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"Now it just feels like we're always plugged into some software or the other and I hate it"

I can definitely understand that feeling. Computer labs were cool since there'd be other people around, and you could hang out/do homework/mess around on the computer whilst also talking. They were also a good place to meet up before going somewhere else.

12/9/2022 11:20:18 AM

Yeah, it's wild to think back to having to go to a designated lab to get on a computer. I remember spending a lot of time and a lot of late/all-nighters in Leazar. And there being a lab in Sullivan (I think).

12/9/2022 11:27:23 AM

There were computer labs everywhere!

12/9/2022 11:37:12 AM

Not in my day [old].

But no, i do remember there were a few scattered across campus,and each year there were more, but can't remember where they were except for the two I mentioned. I'm assuming there was one in the library, but I can't remember it.

12/9/2022 11:47:28 AM

Sullivan definitely had one.

12/9/2022 2:17:34 PM

Life was very different when I first came to State. Shit, I had to buy calling cards to talk to friends back home to save money on long distance bills. Calling cards? WTF are those?

I drive down Western and get stopped at the intersection of Avent Ferry and Western and just see everyone looking down at their phones. Yea, I sound like that grumpy old man, but people really are just plugged in all the time now.

Aside from AIM, ICQ and a few others, we had to either call someone on a phone or meet up with someone to talk. I'm always going to way it was a healthier way to meet people and hang out, but these younger generations adjust to the life to which they've been born, so I guess it doesn't really matter.

As far as my time here, I was a little late coming to TWW, and never made it into the core crowd - kinda wish I would have, seemed like I missed a lot of fun shit, but I did meet my wife here, so there's that. A backup of this site should go into a time capsule somewhere. Aside from what was lost to those severe outages, it's a great time capsule for colleg life in the late 90's and early 00's.

12/9/2022 3:38:59 PM

We could send zephyrs to people in other computer labs, and I remember how neat I thought that was. It was called "zephyr", wasn't it?

12/9/2022 4:02:34 PM

I have no idea what you are talking about.

^^i think the people just staring at their phones all the time started as early as 2009/10. Obviously there wasn't the dumbass influencer culture that there is now, but I distinctly remember going to football/basketball games just a couple years after leaving Raleigh and seeing how much of an affect smartphones had on the student sections at games. Much more people holding up phones to take photos/videos all the time or to stare at a screen instead of being engaged in the event. Just my 2 old man cents.

For reference, i didn't have a cellphone of any kind until 2008. It was glorious.

12/9/2022 4:15:55 PM

I got my first cell phone in 2000, but it was one of those indestructible Nokia's, of course with very limited functions. Smartphones have ruined us. /rant.

12/9/2022 4:37:27 PM

Also i pretty much exclusively used CALS computer labs because I'm pretty sure CALS students got free printing at them? Maybe i am misremembering idk

12/9/2022 4:45:36 PM

Oh yeah, had to go to the building near Mann Hall and Riddick Hall and buy print quota. I think it had a "wolf" name too, but can't remember.

12/9/2022 4:53:02 PM

I think i still have a wolfcopy card with like 50 cents on it. Maybe it still works!

12/9/2022 4:57:56 PM

I hated those Solaris machines in the engineering computer labs.

Now I have a handful of 20 year old Solaris servers I have to keep running.

12/9/2022 5:23:15 PM

I worked the front desk of Sullivan in 2002!

12/10/2022 5:22:31 AM

I worked the Tucker computer lab in 2006! SO much free time during the 2AM-8AM shift.

I got my first cell phone in 2004. I'm still kinda amazed how we were able to make plans and meet up without cell phones, and it just worked.

12/10/2022 12:03:42 PM

the last time I remember really using a computer lab was in elementary school when we had to each research a president
and then too we had to primarily use books

as a kid too I think there was just that sense of the unknown
youd just go out in the neighborhood everyday at some time, knock on your friends' doors and just run around without a plan

of course phones and everything may have objectively helped us but it has taken out that unplanned sense of life and made things less fun as a result, no wonder everyone is in some mental health crisis nowadays

hell ive met people who as adults in college have trackers on their phones now and stuff and i dont know man, I don't know.

12/10/2022 8:17:08 PM

Sullivan my first two years

was a generally good experience

12/10/2022 8:20:43 PM