So let’s have it. Your best sentences of the verb UChicago used in a sentence!!
I am not very creative, but here are some lame starts
When you UChicago your way to an “A”, your fellow students are likely to look down upon you.
If you want to UChicago your way to Med school, you better go to Yale
When you UChicago your butt in a dance, you are Chirking
I’m not sure of the definition but reading some it sure mimics the other elite schools comments of yield games, acceptance rates, diversity, admission boards, shock of rejection, etc.
It all boils down to 35k+ applicants and 1985 spots all with similar academic stats, EC’s, stories, etc.
Completely off topic, the YouTube video of the Amherst admission committee member basically saying the entire process is flawed and he has no idea why he votes admission, defer or reject at times really sums it up. https://youtu.be/Y-OLlJUXwKU
It’s a random number generator once you qualify with the basic academic requirements.
That’s pretty funny (in part because it captures something true about the place), JBS. However, I have to acknowledge a mental block: the “UChicago” moniker. When did this become standard usage, and why? If not given in full, the informal name of the University of Chicago has always been “the U. of C.” (not U.C., reserved for Berkeley) or, in in-house contexts, simply “the University”. Occasionally, when the context was clearly educational, not municipal, it was “Chicago”. Someone will surely argue that it makes sense to affix the U to the latter usage as a way of avoiding confusion between city and school without having to say the whole bloody name of the place. However, it sets my teeth on edge. It lamely follows all the other U-thises and U-thats marching to a homogenizing mandate for standardization imposed by god knows what dreary style manual produced by what association of universities. It smacks of blandness, bureaucracy and rejection of tradition. I pray you, avoid it!
I love the UChicago monicker. In fact, I never use “U of C” since they make UChicago interchangeable with Cincinati, California, and any other university named after a state, city, county, country, region, province, union, or family name that starts with C. I never use just “Chicago” not only because it confuses the city and the university but also because it really often gets followed up by, “Which school, Northwestern?” or “I went to DePaul too”.
UChicago is more exact. I enjoin all of you to use it exclusively.
O.K. If I must, I must. Here’s one: “He was UChicago’d out of Jimmy’s Woodlawn Tap.” (I.e., was escorted to the door for too raucously asserting that “all men by nature desire to know”).
NU’ed = an unrealistic feeling of general inadequacy caused by actual or supposed inferiority in one sphere, sometimes marked by aggressive behavior in compensation. As in, “when I saw my ex-girlfriend with her new rich, good looking boyfriend, I felt 'NU’ed.”
“UChicago” must have started when Nondorf showed up. It was U of C or just plain Chicago when I was there. But U of C used to refer to Cal-Berkeley (at least in my corner of the west) and “Chicago” seemed to be associated just with certain graduate fields such as economics, business, law, etc. (i.e. “Chicago School” of something or other . . . ). “UChicago” has a unique association for the undergraduate program.
My husband won’t use the term and I’ve completely broken with my generation on this but I’ll continue to refer to it as UChicago. I’m up with the new lingo, man. I’m hip, I’m with it. I’m also the parent of a kid matriculating this fall and this is what she, her counselors, and her principal call the school.
@MCarltx when I was at Booth we used to say that Kellogg (NU’s B-school) only accepted kids who were good looking and could interview well . . . because two years later they were still good looking and could still interview well. We’d sometimes run across those good-looking, polished kids on the interview circuit and were routinely worried about getting “Kellogg’d”.
The shortcomings of the “U of C” nickname were made clear to me when various people assumed I mean the University of Cincinnati, the University of Connecticut, the University of Colorado and every campus of the University of California. UChicago has enough problems with name recognition as it is. No need to add to it.
I still believe that the school would have been better served if it were named Rockefeller U. or Harper U. or Hyde Park U. at the outset. There is a reason that Princeton changed its name from “The College of New Jersey.”
Problem with those names is that your still only using 2 letter, with thousands of schools, 2 letters isn’t going to do it.
UChicago is about as short as you can go. Just like the University of Connecticut is UConn.
