<p>Discussions like this scare me. I don't know how to classify myself, and I don't want to. I wear clothing that's comfortable, and not particularly adventuresome. Jeans and a random tee anyone? I don't specifically dislike any "type" of people, but generally I find that "hipsters" are unmotivated and prone to drug usage. Perhaps that's a symptom only found in my high school. Certainly, UChicago kids can't survive if they're unmotivated, and I can't imagine drugs are overly present.</p>
<p>Fastfood15,</p>
<p>Don't be scared - not everyone at Chicago sees themselves as a type, or dresses in any discernible particular way. I think the majority of students dress in exactly what you mentioned - jeans and a t-shirt, or whatever else is clean and not laying on their dorm room floor. </p>
<p>I ditto the poster above who said that UC has a more middle-class feel than its peers.</p>
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I use my body as a canvas to the pieces of many designers... I might sound materialistic but I'm very intelligent and of activist nature.
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<p>Narcissistic much?</p>
<p>In unrelated news, Andrew Bird is awesome.</p>
<p>I have nothing to add to the thread, but just felt like throwing in more Andrew Bird love. Dude's music is delicious.</p>
<p>Does UChicago have a large Hipster population?</p>
<p>Yes, but some more earnest than others.</p>
<p>good god did you really just say something about using your body as a canvas… i hope this is satire</p>
<p>No, the OP said that a year ago. Presumably she has matured some, gotten into college somewhere, and toned it down a bit by now. If she’s going to Chicago, I assume that she’ll be using her body as a canvas for designers considerably less.</p>
<p>I’m not a hipster myself, but I ended up spending some time roaming the city with a few hipster prefrosh/prospies during my overnight stay at Chicago. As far as I know, neither decided to go to Chicago. One went to a LAC in the northeast, the other went to NYU. </p>
<p>In contrast, I later spent the evening chilling in the dorm, playing chess and making small talk with the kind of cloistered intellectuals Chicago is famous for. Of these, I know of at least two who are heading to Chicago with me this year.</p>
<p>I’m not saying this is a surefire trend, but it was my experience, and I’d be lying if I said I believed Chicago had a LARGE hipster population.</p>
<p>Chicago’s hipster population is NOT as large as NYU’s. Duh.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I have personal knowledge that Chicago has hipsters, certainly enough to keep each other company. Some of whom turned down NYU to go there. Good hipster-spotting zones include WHPK, Hallowed Grounds coffee shop, outside the building where English department classes are, the University Theater, the Smart Museum, the hookah bar on 55th, any meeting of the Chicago Weekly.</p>
<p>Haha, when I visited Chicago on the prospie overnight, I remember having a conversation about hipsters. From what I gathered, there is a decently sized hipster population at the school which tends to blur in with the theater kids and art kids. Not everybody is enamored with them, and there were a couple of jokes poking fun at hipsters who take themselves too seriously (“They’re very ironic about everything. Except their irony. They take their irony very seriously.”) Anyway, take that for what you will.</p>
<p>I saw lots of hipsters at prospie weekend, too. They hang out on the ventilation grates outside of the Reg and smoke, haha.</p>
<p>like smoke smoke or “smoke”? :D</p>
<p>Haha, I’m not sure they can “smoke” outside of the Reg (well, at least not in broad daylight, I don’t know about otherwise). The “smoking” that I saw go on was a little more discreet, and not by hipsters.</p>
<p>That said, I have yet to understand why being a hipster and cigarette-smoking seem to coincide so much. Can anyone enlighten me on this strange phenomenon, because it’s honestly beyond me.</p>
<p><em>achem</em>
On the Student Council elections,
" The Moose Party platform included a bronze statue of Ted O’Neill naked on the quad, a Drinking Game Theory economics course, a smoking area called the Hipster Cave—“There will be no speakers but we will play only sound films anyway,” said second-year Danny Kimeldorf, candidate for vice president for administration—and a dental-dam Easter egg hunt."
[Slate</a> and undergraduate liaison candidatesdebate - The Chicago Maroon](<a href=“Delays keep Proof from silver screen – Chicago Maroon”>Delays keep Proof from silver screen – Chicago Maroon)</p>
<p>The Hipster Cave would of course be located right outside of Cobb Hall - where most of the humanities classes are held, conveniently. There is also the Cobb Coffee Shop, which is hipster paradise for coffee, bagels, and alternative versions of Coke and Pepsi.</p>
<p>:D</p>