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Solving Big, Sticky Problems

“When I came to Carolina, I wanted to pick the trickiest problems out there and try to understand how you think about them,” said Ananda Day ’14, a product specialist at a 3D printing startup in Silicon Valley.

“When I came to Carolina, I wanted to pick the trickiest problems out there and try to understand how you think about them,” said Ananda Day ’14, a product specialist at a 3D printing startup in Silicon Valley.

“When I came to Carolina, I wanted to pick the trickiest problems out there and try to understand how you think about them,” said Ananda Day ’14, a product specialist at a 3D printing startup in Silicon Valley. “That’s exactly where I am right now, solving big, sticky problems.”

Day credits the Carolina Covenant — a UNC Office of Scholarships and Student Aid initiative that provides a debt-free education to students from low-income families — for her success in solving the problems that mattered most. Now she’s finding out how to best repay the donors who invested in those opportunities, starting with a donation to the Carolina Covenant.

“You do people proud by making the most of yourself and their investment and then starting to do just what they did for you,” she said.

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