Event #1: UNC vs. NC State

Tonight was the UNC/NC State game, and it made a huge impact on my experience as a university student. One thing that every Carolina student must realize is his or her inner hatred towards the opposite team, especially NC State and Duke. As a child, my parents awakened my inner hatred towards NC State at an early age, mostly because they are graduates of UNC and they shared the same hatred that all students, past, present, and future, must experience in order to be a true Tar Heel. Needless to say my hatred for NC State burns like crazy and therefore I am a Tar Heel. Another way the game impacted me as a student is the unity that brings the students together here at the university. During my high school experience, I witnessed, at different schools, a sense of disconnection that pushed apart students, an experience that I was fortunate not to experience in high school. In college, I expected that it would become just as disconnected as the other high schools, since the campus is extremely large and diverse. However, tonight at the basketball game, I sensed the unity of students in cheering for their team. We all share one passion, and that passion is Carolina Basketball. Sometimes it only takes small things to display the unity of a student body.

In connection with our studies in english, at basketball games it is obvious to see that the audience is one of the most important aspects of the game. In english, the audience is also one of the most important aspects of writing, becuase a paper will always be written for someone to read, whether by a scientist, amateur reader, or teacher. The audience can drive the tempo of a basketball game by getting louder or quieter. Similarly, the way an english paper is written can also be driven by the audience, since the type of audience will affect the way the language and style of a paper are written. Furthermore, if a basketball team is playing horribly, the audience will lose interest and possibly not want to go watch another basketball game for a while, a detrimental blow to a team. Likewise in english, if the author of a papar cannot keep the audience focused or drawn to the paper by using bad grammer, disorganized sentences or lack of following the prompt, the audience will never want to read the author's work again, usually resulting, in the case of a student, in an ugly grade!