Many UNC-CH students moving back home as semester goes virtual

“I’m pretty bummed out about the fact that I can’t get the full college experience I’ve been told about my entire life,” Christian Chung said.

Christian Chung is a freshman at UNC-Chapel Hill. He moved into his dorm on August 5th. After clusters of COVID cases, the university decided to move classes online and encouraged students to move out. Chung moved back home to Charlotte on August 22nd.

“When I got home I immediately when into my room and self quarantined until I got the results which came back negative but I remained in quarantine and got another test here in Charlotte and that came back negative too,” Chung, said.

Chung says the move back home was sudden and the transition from in person classes to online has been challenging.

“This was during the second week of school. We just started to get into content and that was put on pause when the university canceled school,” Chung said.

Chung says he knew his first year of college would be different – with masks and social distancing.

He just never thought it would come to an end so soon.

“This just feels like .. I don’t even know. It’s the in between. I’m in college but I’m not fully experiencing it like I could,” Chung said.

Currently, 957 residents with approved hardships are living on main campus and another 122 in Granville Towers. That number is not final as we are still processing move out activity from this weekend and are working with students who have not yet checked out.

As of Friday, 119 students are in isolation housing and 109 students are in quarantine housing. Those numbers are listed on the Carolina Together Dashboard and they are updated every week day when the dashboard is updated around 4 p.m.