<p>If you know any anthropology majors, how do they feel about the department? From what I can tell, it seems really strong, but hearing it from students as opposed to the internet would be nice. And how's the newspaper? I haven't visited yet, so I haven't had a chance to look at it myself.</p>
<p>The newspaper is available online, Home</a> - The Chicago Maroon. They used to have both an online edition and .pdfs of the print edition, but the pdfs may be gone now. As an outside observer, I would say that the Maroon isn't one of Chicago's strong points relative to its competition, especially given that it only publishes 18 or 19 editions per quarter. One of the ways Chicago really is different from Ivy League colleges is that it seems to have many fewer students with a serious interest in journalism -- not none, but fewer. College newspaper staffs don't necessarily have to consist of 100% future journalists, but a critical mass at the core helps.</p>
<p>There is also an alternative student weekly with an online edition that unfortunately does not include its extensive cultural calendar feature: The</a> Chicago Weekly</p>
<p>The Maroon is, although one of the only things available online, a pretty bad example of the publications students can become involved in. It's kind of inane. The Maroon and the Chicago Weekly are our "journalism"-type publications, but if you want to become involved in writing, editing, and publication of different journals, there are many options, all of which are student run. While the names fail me, there are opportunities in essay writing, creative writing, opinion writing, science writing, semi-journalism-esque things, editorials, and pretty much any other writing field you can think of (by my descriptions it may be highly obvious that I'm a bio major, lol). So, opportunities to become involved in writing are definitely not limited to the Maroon.</p>
<p>@NotaVirtue:</p>
<p>There is certainly a computational neuroscience minor about which you can read at <a href="http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/pdf_09/CPNS.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/pdf_09/CPNS.pdf</a>. It is also possible to obtain a specialization in neuroscience for the Biological Sciences major according to the Biological Sciences program of study file (<a href="http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/pdf_09/BIOS.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/pdf_09/BIOS.pdf</a>).</p>
<p>What kind of students usually attend each residence hall/dorm/house? I mean, what is the personality of each house?</p>
<p>While you are waiting for a student to give you the real answer to that, read this: Campus</a> Housing - The Chicago Maroon</p>
<p>green trombone--
You'll probably find that houses can change pretty significantly over the years. I've lived for two years in both BJ and Max, and I can say that the dynamic of the house (in both buildings) changed quite a bit: one year there were more partiers (and not surprisingly more drama) while the next would be a lot more quiet. That having been said, there are some things that stay pretty similar over the years and become part of a building's character: if you live in a house with single sex floors, as I did in BJ, you'll probably find calmer, relatively more conservative students. Ditto with buildings with lots of singles--singles have the tendency to allow people to hole up in their rooms, and contact can get a little sporadic. My house in Max is very different, see it'smeboyd's post above to get a feel for it. That's really all I can say specifically, I'm sure others can talk about the rest of housing.</p>
<p>Here are some more student publications: Chicago Weekly, Noyes, Triple Helix, Midway Review, Sliced Bread.</p>