Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Holly Springs, NC
Major: Physics (but soon-to-be marketing)
Relationship Status: Single
Moe Ali is one of App’s busiest students: he is one of the founding fathers of the new fraternity on campus, hall council president of Mountaineer Hall and still finds time to teach himself how to play guitar. So he’s always doing something. Yet somehow, he still had time to sit down and talk to me for an interview.
Moe is a people person. He classifies himself as an extrovert, getting his energy from talking to people.
More than that, he has a ton of friends at universities all across North Carolina. During fall break, he went to visit friends at NC State and UNC Charlotte. But he also has three friends at UNC Wilmington and more friends at East Carolina. He attributes knowing a lot of people at various universities to the larger high school he went to: Holly Springs High.
Although he tends to visit his friends during breaks, he did go home for the first time this semester for Thanksgiving break. Upon being asked if he missed his family, he said that he doesn’t have a very close family.
When I asked him since he visits other universities so much, why App? “I like it here better,” said Moe.
His favorite thing to do is to just hang out with friends. “It doesn’t matter what we’re doing. I just like being around people,” Moe said. When he is in his room, not around people, and has free time, he enjoys playing Rock band.
Did I mention that he plays guitar? Yes? Well, I’ll mention it again. He started playing less than a year ago, teaching himself by looking at tabs on sheet music and playing along. He said he’s decent and dubs himself “bonfire-good.” He came to that conclusion after recalling a bonfire he just had with his fraternity, Phi Sigma Kappa. At the bonfire, his brothers told him to play something, and he did.
Speaking of his fraternity brothers, he said, “I love all the guys in there,” even though they’ve only known each other for a month. With them, it just clicked.
He admits he was skeptical about Greek life last year.
“Our goal is to take everything that everyone thinks about Greek life and just smash all that and bring light to Greek life. So any negative stigmas that people just have about frat boys and everything, reverse all those. Like that’s our number one priority above everything else.”
Joining Phi Sigma Kappa was a no-brainer for him. Their philanthropy is the Special Olympics, and he’s even worked with them before in his senior year of high school. “Whenever we see there’s a Special Olympics in the area, we would go help out with it.”
When asked about his personal goals, he said that he’s not really a goal-oriented person, that as long as at the end of each day he’s happy. After he thought about it, he said, “My life is nothing but a short term goal.”