{"id":10550,"date":"2015-05-05T11:03:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T16:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=10550"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:07:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:07:27","slug":"ossey15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=10550","title":{"rendered":"Julia Ossey \u201915: Taking a look into the daily life of the president"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10551\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/\/casdev.unc.edu\/collegearchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Ossey_Julia3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10551\" src=\"\/\/casdev.unc.edu\/collegearchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Ossey_Julia3-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"Julia Ossey (photo by Kristen Chavez)\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia Ossey (photo by Kristen Chavez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If senior Julia Ossey were a contestant on <em>Jeopardy<\/em>, her ideal category would be \u201cAmerican Presidents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEisenhower only had an 8-hour day. He would spend his afternoon playing golf or just relaxing. Kennedy really liked to swim. Jimmy Carter had an 18-hour day on average,\u201d Ossey said. \u201cJust comparing the different times and seeing what a president\u2019s duties were is very interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Greensboro native first became interested in the American presidency after taking Power Politics, a first-year seminar about leadership taught by political science professor Terry Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter she had some experience in my first-year seminar with thinking about a problem like leadership, she came to me with her own questions \u2013 how to understand leadership in a crisis,\u201d Sullivan said.<\/p>\n<p>Ossey spent three years at UNC under the tutelage of Sullivan, researching the daily schedules of presidents. Her work spanned from Eisenhower to Bush Sr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m trying to figure out what constitutes a surprise to the president of the United States. We\u2019re taking <em>New York Times<\/em> articles and coding them to see when the president would change his daily routine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After examining thousands of articles, Ossey and a fellow student researcher are currently analyzing their data.<\/p>\n<p>Ossey is a political science and global studies double major in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is also minoring in Hebrew and is fluent in Arabic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took Arabic and Hebrew because I love languages but I also realized that I wanted to use them in a future career in the government,\u201d Ossey said.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan said he has watched Ossey grow tremendously over the past four years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJulia is an exemplar of the focused undergraduate who came to UNC with a general education and simply got more mature, broader and deeper,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd she has turned that breadth into a desire to perform national service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Ossey, getting to conduct research with Sullivan was the highlight of her Carolina career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know every Thursday at one o\u2019clock we have a meeting and I have to present my research. Half the time we go on tangents, but that\u2019s the best part,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>When Ossey isn\u2019t researching past presidents, she can be found volunteering at the Inter-Faith Council food bank in Carrboro, studying at the Hillel house, or meeting up with friends at YoPo for a cup of her favorite frozen yogurt.<\/p>\n<p>She said the memories she\u2019s made here will last a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard leaving after these great four years and I can\u2019t imagine going to any other university,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m ready to take what I\u2019ve learned at Carolina and apply it to my future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>By Parth Shah \u201915<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If senior Julia Ossey were a contestant on Jeopardy, her ideal category would be \u201cAmerican Presidents.\u201d Ossey spent three years at UNC under the tutelage of political science professor Terry Sullivan, researching the daily schedules of presidents. 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