<p>Anyone trying to hold onto a very productive, positive and unusually strong relationship with a high school partner back at home?</p>
<p>I am potentially in this boat and I want to see what everyone else would do. Upperclassmen please post on here if you experienced the same thing freshman year. How did you deal with the stress on the relationship? is it really that hard and tempting at Chicago?</p>
<p>Heh, I remember that these threads were very popular in our class forum that uchicago provided.</p>
<p>I wasn't holding on to a relationship from high school, but I knew a few people that were, and they all had hard times with it. However, everybody will have a different story, since it's a very personal thing, isn't it? It depends on your values.</p>
<p>I also haven't been in the situation, but knew some people that were. Of all the people I know who tried to do it, only two lasted past the first year.
-One of those two is kinda creepy. They talked on the phone for hours most days all year.
-The other wasn't as obsessive. We Chicago folks only knew of the relationship because we asked about a screensaver picture. </p>
<p>If you want to try it, give each other some space. Don't talk on the phone three hours a day. If you still want to be together when you go back home for holidays, summer, etc., great. If not, then don't hold onto it just because it was great before you went to college. The guy from the non-obsessive relationship is now engaged, so it seems to have worked out.</p>
<p>From what I've seen, you will have no trouble holding up your relationship at UChicago. There is essentially zero temptation to cheat because everyone is JUST SO UGLY.</p>
<p>Regards,
gradatgrad</p>
<p>that was pretty blunt</p>
<p>Don't feed the troll.</p>
<p>Edit: The particular troll seems to be from Northwestern. Figures.</p>
<p>Good show, Myself. You are pratically the Internet's Sherlock Holmes.</p>
<p><em>rolls eyes</em></p>
<p>Gradatgrad simply is jealous that we will be attending the best institution in the United States.</p>
<p>Typical UChicago elitism there. Hope you guys are happy at the institution where fun goes to die.</p>
<p>Fun may be dead in terms of wild beer bashes - but other types of fun are alive and well. Have you ever visited the school?</p>
<p>Dearest Katharos: There are in fact beer bashes.</p>
<p>Dearest gradatgrad: Katharos is an incoming first year, so while we're excited to have her, her elitism is not necessarily representative of our school. I would put it down to typically incoming student overzealousness.</p>
<p>Dearest Katharos: I'm aware that you've taken classes here.</p>
<p>Dearest gradatgrad: I change my mind. A lot of students here, even after a few years, are still overzealous. Still, students are no less overzealous anywhere else.</p>
<p>Elitism. What a funny word. I'd say that anyone who attends either Chicago or NU is "elite" by the very definition of the word. This is why I laugh whenever someone from Chicago lambastes the "elitism" at this school -- as if they're not in a highly privileged minority by attending this school. The same goes for NU.</p>
<p>You know, I'd never thought of it that way. It's true.</p>
<p>However, that is kind of dodging the issue that proclaiming "U of C is the best school in the world" goes beyond a simple recognition of one's own elitism. The same goes for people who say that of any institution. Therefore, when most people use "elitist" with a negative connotation, they aren't referring to elitism as you understand it. I think that's why I used the word "zealous" in my post.</p>
<p>I believe in personal elitism, in knowing I'm simply fantasticer than most of you multiplied, divided, subtracted, multiplied once again and then some parentheses together. I'm not exactly sure where that leaves me, but I think it is in an area significantly, and mathematically, perhaps comically, never deliciously, cooler.</p>
<p>Elitism isn't knowing that you are elite - it's believing you are inherently superior for it. Plenty of UChicagoers like to laud their school as much better than it actually is. </p>
<p>And Katharos, I've visited the school, during the schoolyear even. Seemed pretty dead compared to others I've overnighted at.</p>
<p>Well, in that case, I'll quote our erstwhile President, Don Randel: "The University of Chicago is the best university in this or any neighboring galaxy."</p>
<p>Yeeha!</p>
<p>"Yeeha"?</p>
<p>Man, that is sexy.</p>
<p>On a more serious note, what are you even doing here, gradatgrad, if you're a NU student?</p>
<p>Seems kinda lame.</p>
<p>The frat parties here are not as rowdy as one would think. I know; I live on Frat Row. Things used to be much worse a few years ago, but I believe things have calmed down a bit. Of course, they do have their Saturday night parties during the school year - but absolutely nothing has happened over this summer, even with frat boys still living here. </p>
<p>Furthermore, most of the students I know have never attended a frat party. That may be because they are mainly Classics majors, though, but they do run the gamut. The students I know are more involved in academics and clubs than in drinking. </p>
<p>And yes, I might be a little overzealous, but I find that understandable. I have lived on the U. of C. campus the majority of my life, so I love the school and Hyde Park. How can I not have pride? :D</p>