Satire: Doing Chapel Hill housing by the (Face)book – The Daily Tar Heel

Editor’s note: this article is satire.There exists a group on campus that can make or break your college experience. It can introduce you to your future best friend or your future worst enemy. It can point you in the direction of a nice four-bedroom off Church Street or a dingy duplex 40 minutes from campus. It can help you finally sell that lamp that you used to cram for physics late into the night (you failed) or urge you to buy another (maybe this is a sign to stop cramming by lamplight). The group is more exclusive than the Order of Gimghoul, it holds more secrets than the Church of Scientology and it exists on a platform even more underground than BeReal.  It’s the “UNC Chapel Hill Subleases, Roommates, Off Campus Housing & Apartments” Facebook group. You might be thinking, “But Hannah, the group has 33,487 members. That’s hardly underground.” Sure, that’s enough people to fill a small town, but the Facebook group isn’t a town: it’s an art form. If you were in the first 33,487 people to discover Frank Ocean, I bet you’d feel pretty good about yourself. If you were in the first 33,487 people to visit
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