Some students at UNC-Chapel Hill are getting ready to take a trip to Washington D.C. for Barack Obama's inauguration.

"It's a once in a lifetime experience to see this inauguration," said Charlie Sellew, a UNC Sophomore from Minnesota.

Sellew is making the trip this weekend and although he doesn't have a ticket to the inauguration ceremony just yet, he's hoping a friend will come through with it. Either way, he'll be there the day Obama becomes President.

"It's exciting to have a new President that I really am excited to have as my President and who I feel represents me," he said. "It will be exciting to be there."

. Vivek Chilukeri, a UNC Senior and Chapel Hill native, said the inauguration has been the talk of campus.

"The first question I get from friends is, 'how are your classes going?,'" he said. "The second question, 'are you going to the inauguration?'"

Chilukeri is one of the lucky ones who has a ticket.

"I feel like this event is a passing of the torch in many ways," he said. "I feel like as someone of the younger generation, it's really approporiate and exciting to be there."

Both students will be leaving early Saturday morning and they will be staying at a friends' parents house who live in D.C.