Video: Time flies during move-in

Posted Aug 20, 2014
This time-lapse video covers the start of the semester with 28 different scenes, from balconies at the top of Hinton James dorm to the bricks around the Old Well. Six staffers from UNC-Chapel Hill’s communications offices captured everything from a room being unpacked at Ehringhaus, to lines of cars unloading on Skipper Bowles Drive, to bean bags flying on Hooker Field in a game of cornhole. (UNC.edu)

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