Dr. Bishop is my advisor and has been very close to Dr. Brooks since coming to the department. It's hard to verbalize the humility Dr. Brooks exhibits. He once

Dr. Bishop is my advisor and has been very close to Dr. Brooks since coming to the department. It's hard to verbalize the humility Dr. Brooks exhibits. He once held the door open for me a few years ago as I was leaving the building after a long day. Here is this brilliant, monumental computer scientist and founder of the department, holding the door for a lowly, clearly exhausted undergraduate. It almost seemed metaphoric. As a grad student now, I look back and really appreciate that small gesture. These things may seem trivial, but he does them so often. Many of the students at UNC wouldn't even know what Dr. Brooks looks like, let alone his day-to-day personality. Dr. B was trying to describe the kindness and good nature of Dr. Brooks.