<p>66.its underrated like crazy</p>
<ol>
<li><p>The campus is a botanical garden.
If you don't believe me then check out all the labels on the trees. </p></li>
<li><p>Levitt - Freakenomics </p></li>
<li><p>The varsity circle</p></li>
<li><p>You can never be too far from a coffee shop. </p></li>
<li><p>Most of the rooms are singles- or close to it. </p></li>
<li><p>The fact that no one believed that I could get in, then got in EA. (too personal?- I guess you'll have to deal with it.)</p></li>
<li><p>Pizza</p></li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Alumnus David Brookes' column in the New York Times expounding the virtues of the core curriculum ("The Education of Robert Kennedy," November 26, 2006)</li>
</ol>
<p>It's good reading, for the people who don't have TimesSelect. From David Brooks' The Education of Robert Kennedy: "Kennedy found in the Greeks a sensibility similar to his own -- heroic and battle-scarred but also mystical. He shared the awful sense of foreboding that pervades the work of Aeschylus and Sophocles, and that distinctly Greek awareness of the invisible patterns that connect events to one another, how the arrogance men and women show at one moment will twist back and bring agony later on..."</p>
<p>"...And the lesson, of course, is about the need to step outside your own immediate experience into the past, to learn about the problems that never change, and bring back some of that inheritance. The leaders who founded the country were steeped in the classics, Kennedy found them in crisis, and today's students are lucky if they stumble on them by happenstance."</p>
<p>Significant is not so much what Kennedy found in Greek literature but rather Brookes' reverence to the classical texts that the common 21st century education lacks but could benefit from both on college campuses and in the political arena. Lucky us!</p>
<ol>
<li>Doc films</li>
<li>University Theater</li>
<li>G&S - HMS Pinafore <a href="http://music.uchicago.edu/index.phtml?page_id=155%5B/url%5D">http://music.uchicago.edu/index.phtml?page_id=155</a></li>
<li>Libby's admissions blog</li>
<li>Hitchcock house mascot (armadillo) and motto (deformis sed utiles)</li>
<li>Rockefeller Chapel's Carillon - a 100 ton musical instrument - <a href="http://rockefeller.uchicago.edu/carillon.html%5B/url%5D">http://rockefeller.uchicago.edu/carillon.html</a></li>
<li>Opening convocation speeches by Ted ONeill <a href="http://phoenix.uchicago.edu/ted/index.htm%5B/url%5D">http://phoenix.uchicago.edu/ted/index.htm</a></li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>All of those wonderful graduate students</li>
<li>Character building weather</li>
<li>House dining and outings</li>
<li>Reminders of the 1892 Worlds Fair</li>
<li>Origin of the real "Monsters of the Midway"</li>
<li>Home of the first Heisman Trophy winner</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Math Dept. is a little gem.</li>
<li>Great Workout facilities</li>
<li>Mr. University of Chicago contest</li>
<li>the Folk Festival</li>
<li>Possibility of swimming in Lake Mich. in late Sept. or early Oct. at the Point</li>
<li>Healthy looking squirrels</li>
</ol>
<p>Ah, idealism.</p>
<ol>
<li>People at Harvard and Princeton can't help but shudder when they think of "how bad they've got it at UChicago" (I'm actually not jesting here...:))</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Wednesdays=shake days!</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>The possibility that you will knock off a Harvard or UPenn grad when you interview for that job (I'm actually not jesting here! My S did at his interview!).</li>
</ol>
<p>Ooops... I guess my post should be 96!</p>
<p>Had to do a bit of editing to remove duplicates (Reg, gargoyles, etc.) and add material.</p>
<ol>
<li>It's in Chicago</li>
<li>Awesome core curriculum</li>
<li>Tons of nobel-winning professors</li>
<li>Top political science program in the US</li>
<li>Top 10 in the US for sending undergrads to med school</li>
<li>Ugly girls so you won't be distracted from your studies</li>
<li>Life of the mind</li>
<li>The mascot...phoenix rocks!</li>
<li>Gargoyles</li>
<li>Cool motto: Crescat scientia, vita excolatur</li>
<li>Interesting and slightly self-deprecating t-shirts</li>
<li>Excellent faculty</li>
<li>Number one econ program in the nation</li>
<li>Quarter system</li>
<li>Good advertising (i.e. the dean of admissions actually seems interesting as a person)</li>
<li>Quirky essay prompts (think giant mustard jar)</li>
<li>Scavenger Hunt</li>
<li>"Where fun comes to die" (taken with a grain, or pillar, of salt)</li>
<li>Lovely campus complete with Neo-Gothic architecture</li>
<li>The Reg</li>
<li>Cool school color: not just crimson or scarlet, but Maroon</li>
<li>Intriguing school history</li>
<li>"That's great in practice, but how does it work in theory?"</li>
<li>Charming dorms</li>
<li>Lack of grade inflation </li>
<li>Learning>partying (most of the time, that is)</li>
<li>On a Great Lake</li>
<li>Winter!</li>
<li>General quirkiness</li>
<li>BA/MD program</li>
<li>Has the best viewbook</li>
<li>Tore down a football field and replaced it with a library</li>
<li>Only school undefeated against Notre Dame (this story was the highlight of my tour)</li>
<li>Really, really slow elevator in the music building</li>
<li>Rockafeller Chapel</li>
<li>Indiana Jones based of an old anthropology professor</li>
<li>Cellular Field (home of the '05 World Champion White Sox) is right down the road</li>
<li>Uncommon Application</li>
<li>Fundementals Sequence</li>
<li>Computational Neuroscience</li>
<li>Communist Statue outside Economics Dept. Building, a hammer or something (I think)</li>
<li>MILTON FRIEDMAN!!!!!!!! </li>
<li>KURT VONNEGUT</li>
<li>The Maroon</li>
<li>From above, see: <a href="http://maroon.uchicago.edu/online_edition/viewpoints/2006/11/28/embracing-negativity-at-the-u-of-c-is-a-choice-reject-it/%5B/url%5D">http://maroon.uchicago.edu/online_edition/viewpoints/2006/11/28/embracing-negativity-at-the-u-of-c-is-a-choice-reject-it/</a></li>
<li>Ugly people (refer to reason #6) are infinitely more interesting</li>
<li>Kuviasungnerk </li>
<li>I want to live an in an orange dorm!</li>
<li>Paul Sally </li>
<li>First Heisman Winner EVER</li>
<li>Frequent Chitown concerts by Lupe and Kanye
52: Tucker Max</li>
<li>Some of the dorms are old hotels</li>
<li>Oriental Institute Museum</li>
<li>Offer courses on Sumerian and Luwian</li>
<li>Elizabeth Peters!</li>
<li>Not in the South</li>
<li>Hyde Park!</li>
<li>Senator Obama used to teach constitutional law here</li>
<li>It looks like Hogwarts</li>
<li>Because educated sex is better than not - Andrew Abbot</li>
<li>It's underrated like crazy </li>
<li>The campus is a botanical garden</li>
<li>Levitt - Freakenomics </li>
<li>The varsity circle</li>
<li>You can never be too far from a coffee shop </li>
<li>Most of the rooms are singles- or close to it </li>
<li>The fact that no one believed that DannonWater could get in, then got in EA</li>
<li>Pizza</li>
<li>Alumnus David Brookes' column in the New York Times expounding the virtues of the core curriculum ("The Education of Robert Kennedy," November 26, 2006)</li>
<li>Doc films</li>
<li>University Theater</li>
<li>G&S - HMS Pinafore <a href="http://music.uchicago.edu/index.phtml?page_id=155%5B/url%5D">http://music.uchicago.edu/index.phtml?page_id=155</a></li>
<li>Libby's admissions blog</li>
<li>Hitchcock house mascot (armadillo) and motto (deformis sed utiles)</li>
<li>Rockefeller Chapel's Carillon - a 100 ton musical instrument - <a href="http://rockefeller.uchicago.edu/carillon.html%5B/url%5D">http://rockefeller.uchicago.edu/carillon.html</a></li>
<li>Opening convocation speeches by Ted ONeill <a href="http://phoenix.uchicago.edu/ted/index.htm%5B/url%5D">http://phoenix.uchicago.edu/ted/index.htm</a></li>
<li>All of those wonderful graduate students</li>
<li>Character building weather</li>
<li>House dining and outings</li>
<li>Reminders of the 1892 Worlds Fair</li>
<li>Origin of the real "Monsters of the Midway"</li>
<li>Home of the first Heisman Trophy winner</li>
<li>Math department is a little gem</li>
<li>Great workout facilities</li>
<li>Mr. University of Chicago contest</li>
<li>The Folk Festival</li>
<li>Possibility of swimming in Lake Mich. in late Sept. or early Oct. at the Point</li>
<li>Healthy looking squirrels (4 squirrels on the Squirrel Ranking <a href="http://www.gottshall.com/squirrels/campsq.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.gottshall.com/squirrels/campsq.htm</a>)</li>
<li>People at Harvard and Princeton can't help but shudder when they think of "how bad they've got it at UChicago" </li>
<li>Wednesdays = Shake Days!</li>
<li>The possibility that you will knock off a Harvard or UPenn grad when you interview for that job (Peacemaker's S did at his interview!)</li>
<li>Scav Hunt</li>
<li>Small class sizes (83% < 25 students)</li>
<li>Lopsided undergrad:grad student ratio</li>
<li>90% of professors teach undergrads</li>
<li>#6 for PhD production among universities</li>
<li>Cooperation with the Field Museum and Argonne Lab</li>
<li>Seminary Bookstore</li>
<li>Largest university press in the US</li>
<li>Where else would one find the world's best Paleontology and Egyptology programs?</li>
</ol>
<p>Hahaha at </p>
<ol>
<li>Character building weather</li>
</ol>
<p>I would definitely think so...</p>
<p>As a Notre Dame student, I cannot abide #33 without question. Explain this atrocity.</p>
<p>
[quote]
As a Notre Dame student, I cannot abide #33 without question. Explain this atrocity.
[/quote]
I believe all the games were prior to 1900. Doesn't change the cold hard facts. <a href="http://athletics.uchicago.edu/football/fb-records-early-scores.htm%5B/url%5D">http://athletics.uchicago.edu/football/fb-records-early-scores.htm</a></p>
<p>A long time ago (when rocks were soft and dinosaurs walked the earth), Chicago was a football powerhouse. It's alright, PCB, everyone's got a skeleton or two in their closet.</p>
<p>Other schools are also undefeated against duke - Yale is one of them, I think.</p>
<p>bump
i<3 this list</p>
<ol>
<li>Pasta Bar in Bartlett!</li>
</ol>