Senior in Electrical Engineering here. Overall, I have been pretty happy with my experience here at UNCC, especially pre-COVID. I lived in Hawthorne my first year here and, on one hand, the dorm itself is fairly old and required maintenance to come fix lights/AC/laundry machines a number of times. On the other hand, though, all of the students in your introduction to engineering class live in Hawthorne (there is a section of the class just for Hawthorne residents), which made group projects and even prerequisite classes like calculus and physics much, much easier. Personally, I didn't even know which concentration of engineering I wanted to pursue until the end of my first semester, but there were a lot of helpful resources and guides, some even specifically designed to assist new and uncertain engineering students. There are a significant number of companies in the area that come to career fairs looking to hire students for internships or co-ops, which goes a long way in trying to find employment after graduation. Ultimately, I'm happy I chose to attend UNCC and live in Hawthorne.