The North Carolina State University (where Kelly and Christian go to school) is very cool.  Notice the “at Raleigh” ending of their current official name.  It is almost never used, but very cool that it is there.  Here is the progression of names:

  • North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (1887)
  • North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (1918)
  • North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering of the University of North Carolina (1931)
  • North Carolina State of the University of North Carolina at Raleigh (1963)
  • North Carolina State University at Raleigh (1965)

A very cool quote from the article in Wikipedia having to do with the fact that NCSU is a Land Grant school is the following:

…Chapel Hill’s “elitist” education did not meet the mandate set forth by the Morrill Land-Grant Act