<p>When someone asks me where im going to college i want it to have that flair that for example a harvard student has when he says "Harvard", or "Columbia". i feel like saying "uchicago", with that extra syllable "u" messes it up. is it ok if i just call it chicago?</p>
<p>also, yes this is th emost ridiculous thread ever made.</p>
<p>hahahahahahaa</p>
<p>I was actually explaining to my family that the University of Chicago does NOT roll off my tongue at all.... I also tend to get a lot of weird "ARE YOU A HUMAN AND NOT A WORKAZOID CYBORG?!" looks when I say University of Chicago, so I often just tell people I go to school "in Chicago."</p>
<p>If they ask which one, I'll offer "the University of Chicago." Usually then it comes out well.</p>
<p>I never got into the habit of saying "U- Chicago," because my high school boyfriend says it, and it just sounds so... aggressive when he says it. Sometimes I'll say "U of C" and that sounds pretty nice.</p>
<p>Half of my friends, when asked where they go to school, blush and stammer, and just say, "in Boston" or "in Connecticut." The other half don't quite have it down... it comes out "I go to HARVARD," or "I go to YAAAAALE."</p>
<p>Here in snooty-land where I live, the phrase "I go to Chicago" would be unambiguous and widely understood. Respected, too. There's no risk of confusion, because no one here has ever heard of UIC, or indeed any other college in Chicago except maybe Northwestern, which isn't in Chicago and which gets called "Northwestern" anyway. (OK, I know there are some Catholic colleges there, too, and an art school inexplicably named "Columbia". Talk about confusion!)</p>
<p>I gather however that in the slums of teendom people may not understand what you are saying. </p>
<p>Also, use of progressive forms of the verb "to go" unavoidably risk confusion. While "I go to Chicago" may be unambiguous, unless you are in the very act of boarding a plane or the Metra, "I am going to Chicago" or "I will be going to Chicago" obviously risk the response, "Yes, but where in Chicago will you be going?"</p>
<p>Life is tough. But "UChicago" sounds yccchy.</p>
<p>Well, in snooty-snooty-land, where Blair Waldorf is not a caricature, Chicago is not on the radar for parents and teens, even if people have heard of it.</p>
<p>I usually refer to it as UChicago because, being from Michigan, I'd have to clarify anyways if I just said Chicago.</p>
<p>Personally, I think UChicago sounds cool.</p>
<p>unalove: Testing your claim, I looked at the Brearley web site. Chicago is tied for fifth (with Penn and Cornell, behind HYP and Columbia) as a destination for its students over the past five years. It's farther down the list at Chapin, but they still report an average of two acceptances a year, so there must be some applications there. </p>
<p>Is that not snooty-snooty enough? Where does Blair Waldorf go to school, anyway? (I guess it's co-ed . . . .) Are you really that unique?</p>
<p>Oh my goodness.</p>
<p>OK. Well, for one, most students don't say "UChicago," except in the phrase, "That's so UChicago." It's only really here that I see people use it. I probably use it on these boards sometimes because it's shorter to type.</p>
<p>I'm from New England where very few students go to the U of C, so people wouldn't understand me if I just said "Chicago" or the "U of C." When I'm asked where I go to college, I almost always say: "I'm at the University of Chicago." I have no idea why I started saying that I was at somewhere as opposed to that I was going somewhere, but I do. I guess it's shorter and less of a mouthful, though.</p>
<p>I always hated saying where I was applying to colleges because yes, Harvard was on my list, and yes, it didn't look like I had any safeties, so I usually just glossed over the question ("I'm applying to a bunch of schools") unless the person really wanted specific names. I think the Harvard people will get tired of saying they go to Harvard. I would hate to have to say that when people asked where I went to college. It's funny, though, because my sister goes to Dartmouth, but one of our state schools is UMass -Dartmouth, so unless she specifies by saying "Dartmouth College" or "Dartmouth in NH" sometimes people get mistaken and think she goes to one of the state schools.</p>
<p>hahahahahahahah... maybe it's the sort of reputation that the school has among these high schools that Chicago is elite, but untouchably radioactive. Few students apply to begin with, and most of the students who apply are admitted, most admitted turn it down. (Those who apply are among the smartest at the school, and so turn it down for the likes of Harvard and MIT).</p>
<p>I think things are changing, though.</p>
<p>I don't know about you guys, but "The University of Chicago" rolls off the tongue rather well for me... then again, I practice it in the mirror every day. Sadly, now whenever someone says the word "where" I burst out "THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO!"</p>
<p>"So, where's the la -"
"THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO!"</p>
<p>I may sound/look/be stupid, but at least I can say those three words with clarity and relative grace.</p>
<p>alrite then ill just settle for saying " i go to school in chicago" or "i go to chicago", when im feelin extra special</p>
<p>i love this thread.</p>