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Anyone looking for a roommate? I'll be at USC but I want to live in Palms/Culver City, which seems to be the cheapest relatively nice & safe area anywhere near USC. I believe it's 4-5 miles from UCLA.

Anyone looking for a roommate this fall? I'm starting law school (and moving across the country) at USC & would love to find someone who wants to live close to the school (and reduce the cost of rent!)

Anyone still looking for housing for the fall? I live in Southwest Durham, 15-20 minutes from UNC/10-15 minutes from Duke & I'm moving away for grad school and want to rent this place out. It's a 3 yr old completely furnished townhome 2 bed/2 bath in a nice area in Durham - around Hope Valley & down the street from Southpoint with close access to 40 & 15-501. Let me know if you're interested!

Daniel Sherman at UNC is also great in addition to Mary Sheriff. He's a great scholar of all things French, especially 19th century modernism.

At UNC, there are at least 2 professors in the American Studies/Folklore department who specialize in folk visual culture. One of them curated/wrote the catalog for a Thornton Dial exhibition for the university art museum this semester. I can't think of anyone in the art department who specializes in that subject matter.

I live in SW Durham & it seems like TWC has a monopoly on the area. My internet through TWC is fast and reliable at around $60/mo and I think there are even faster options than the one I have. Glen Lennox has a lot of grad students. It's on 54 about 1 mile from campus. Not a lot of students live on 54 in general since there's not a lot of housing. It could be sort of noisy in apartments close to the roadside. The apartments do seem kind of old and I've heard some instances of break ins and thefts. Chapel View & Chapel Ridge have a lot of undergrads, though I think they're quieter than apartments closer to campus. They're off of MLK Blvd, about 4 miles from campus. They're very nice & relatively new and come furnished. I think both have pools and gyms. I don't know about the other places you listed, but a general rule of thumb is the farther away from campus, the cheaper, quieter, and nicer the apartments are.

Just got an email about an interview. Sadly I already took another internship!

I consider Southwest Durham to be roughly bounded by 15-501, MLK Parkway, 40, and 55. I think most of the stand alone houses are for sale but there are quite a lot of townhomes in and around Hope Valley, and those are easier to rent out so I assume it shouldn't be too hard to rent around here. There are some nice apartment complexes around Southpoint/Fayetteville Rd as well for rent.

Hi everyone, I'm at UNC currently and have lived in both Chapel Hill and Durham. Currently, I commute from Durham (southwest, near Southpoint) to Chapel Hill and it's really not that bad, and it appears that a LOT of grad students commute from east of Chapel Hill. If you live near Southpoint, it's about 15-20 minutes to campus if you have a parking spot. If not, the park and rides are really great (~2 miles from campus). The buses run very often (every 5 minutes during rush hours) and it's free! That will add 10-15 minutes to your commute, though. Chapel Hill is a nice college town, but it's very expensive and housing can be pretty run down with pest problems. If you live in Southwest Durham, you can find very reasonably priced housing in new-ish homes. There's not really anything in Chapel Hill but the school and some restaurants. Most students come to Durham to go to the mall, Target, Wal-Mart, and do other shopping. Durham is a lot more culturally interesting than Chapel Hill, in my opinion since it's not a college town. It has a lot of history and downtown is experiencing a sort of renaissance. There are way better restaurants than Chapel Hill and almost everything downtown is locally owned and uses uses local ingredients. There are a TON of delicious food trucks roaming around Durham, and most of them don't go to Chapel Hill because of some annoying CH ordinance. There are some unsafe areas in Durham, but they are easy to avoid. Downtown and Southwest Durham are very safe, possibly even safer than Chapel Hill. Feel free to ask me questions! I have lived in North Durham near Duke, Southwest Durham, and on campus housing in Chapel Hill.

It seems like the undergrad summer internship (the junior mentoring one at least) is geared toward those who are underrepresented in museum careers. I'm not sure if this means they're selecting exclusively from a pool of minorities/low socialeconomic background individuals though. It does seem like an important factor since there was an essay on it.