<p>not when you have a fake.</p>
<p>the club scene is up north but there are A LOT to choose from. i mean, house music was INVENTED in chicago.</p>
<p>Yea. I'm more looking to dance and listen to music. Drinking isn't even on my radar. I just kind want to go to a good dance club at least once or twice...</p>
<p>five bucks says Kmad has never been to a party, lolol</p>
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Plenty of high school students haven't. What's the point of college if one doesn't have anything new to experience? :)</p>
<p>Being open-minded is a two way street, you know.</p>
<p>Hi,
I just wanna say that I agree with the OP completely. The intellectual atmosphere of the school dominates for sure but the frat scene is also always there. Good frat parties are a hit or miss btw. I just came back from one yesterday and it was very very fun, whereas the one I went to a couple of weeks back (AEII) had sucky music that skipped all the time because stupid people kept tripping on the cord. </p>
<p>I have to admit, I was very much against drinking and partying on principle before I came here, much like Kmad here, but I did get into it more once I came here after realizing that hey, drinking =/= total sin and in controlled doses it can be really fun (in certain contexts), and people who do drink and the people who do not have personalities that are virtually indistinguishable from each other here. </p>
<p>Nobody--absolutely nobody pressures anyone to drink here. That's just silly. Also, frat parties are very chill here, because after all, even if some people here do drink and party, they still love Kant and discussing math proofs and whatever. We're all still nerds at heart. This also reminds me of something: I just saw the "That Kid" in my sosc class acting like a retarded drunk yesterday night, and it was quite, quite quite hilarious.</p>
<p>really random, while we are on the drinking and partying note, do a lot of people at U chicago smoke? Im just curious..</p>
<p>I was just at a party last night (smallish, about 20-30 people) and at least ten of them were on the balcony smoking at one point or another. I see people hanging out in front of academic buildings smoking in little hipster huddles, as well. I don't know if you're for or agin, but there's a pretty significant (though minority) contingent of smokers.</p>
<p>Also, for the record, at the same party last night there were two girls from UIC who proclaimed before leaving, "Whoa, U of C knows how to party!" So, some recognize.</p>
<p>i didn't mean cigarettes, i mean herb. i come from the west coast/haha</p>
<p>Haha, gotcha. During my first week here I was made at two offers. I didn't partake, but apparently some do. I don't think it's as prevalent as it might be elsewhere, however.</p>
<p>alright. sounds fine. thanks!</p>
<p>I know a lot of people who smoke herby stuff occasionally or more than occasionally. Personally I don't. But like anything, if you want it, you'll get connected and find it.</p>
<p>The OP is deluded if he thinks UChicago parties are good. From the few parties I've been to as a first year, UChicago parties are usually pretty lame. Some of my friends who are girls tell me that dancing/music at some frats make it worthwhile, but a ton of alcohol isn't the only things that makes a party good. You need cool people too, and this is where UChicago is lacking. </p>
<p>Everyone says that many UChicago students abstain from partying because they prefer a quieter scene. My take, instead, is that these people, who didn't party in HS, now suddenly find the need to go out and party because it's now such a viable option. They're out of place, but still think they're cool because they go out and get wasted every weekend. This all makes for a pretty weak party scene, imo.</p>
<p>I'm glad this thread exists, it has helped me out a lot with my decisions! Now that I know UChicago does not really excel in the leisure category, I don't really feel like this is my school. As much as I like being an intellectual, I need a good balance of work and play. Maybe UChicago is too intellectual for me! lol :P</p>
<p>Why is everyone ganging up on K-MAD? So unnecessary! I mean all he/she did was voice her own opinion on the issue.</p>
<p>As for me I am not so worried about U of C's party scene as the hygiene behavior of the students! I know it is absurd but when I think NERDY NERD I think, bad hygiene- (this is mainly because I want a dooble/roomate)</p>
<p>Back to the topic, I don't agree with drinking neither do I drink, but if that is how you dance then go ahead. I do find it somewhat good and bad that UChi has a party seen. Bad because, at 2 really? And good because I don't really like to tell people I'll be attending the school where fun goes to die!</p>
<p>hahaha, that's funny. i love telling people that. i have this thing for misery, though...
don't worry, there will be unwashed kids at ANY college you attend. there didn't seem to be an excess of them at Chicago.</p>
<p>lol, I don't think there is a hygiene problem. In all of my classes, there is ONE kid who regularly comes to class in pyjama pants. And all the dorms I've visited so far have been cluttered, perhaps, but clean.</p>
<p>lol omg, these threads are so damn biased...
Man. Okay, look--I feel kind of sorry for you if you're not going to come to UChicago because you believe it's where "fun comes to die" and/or smells, because it's SO ABSURD.
1) I shower everyday, thank you very much. I also use bath & body works shower gels and matrix volumizing shampoo. Along with that I use a louffe. I also know many, many many many other people who do. Weird, huh?...
2) partying is a freshmen novelty, it will get boring. there's much more **** to do here than partying. If anything there's too much to do here.
3) I g2g to my adviser meeting, so I'm cutting this short.</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>here's my low-down on U of C social life</p>
<p>There are basically 4 main party scenes on any given weekend at UChicago:</p>
<p>1) Dorm Parties
2) Apartment parties
3) Fraternity Parties
4) Partying/clubbing downtown</p>
<p>Dorm parties are usually pretty lame and should be avoided except to get free beer on your way out of the bldg and coming back to your room.</p>
<p>Apartment parties are usually your best bet for cool partying. These are often hosted by twenty-something grad students or cool hipsters mostly comprising the music/fashion/arts/Grey City crowd. There's always pot, beer, hard alcohol and great music. The downside is that you have to be hooked-in with this crowd to know about these shindigs and most undergrads, esp. underclassmen, will never make it to one of these. When I was DJ'ing at WHPK, we always had fun-as-hell parties that would go on until daylight and then we'd drive downtown to grab pancakes before crashing. Fun times. One of the guys in the group was also a DJ at WHPK and at a club downtown. He ended up producing crap with Jay Z and is a massively rich producer now. So these parties are really fun to go to but you gotta know the people first.</p>
<p>Fraternity parties are hit or miss. My old fraternity, Psi-U, had some awesome parties with packed dance floors, dead cats in the kitchen and drunk, bottomless football players dancing with only their jerseys covering their shmeckels. And remember, out of a student body of 4,000, you will always find a fair number of pretty gorgeous women (and men, I suppose...) simply due to the numbers game. One of the regulars at my fraternity was a Ms. America runner-up and she was just one of many really cute gals there. The music was great and the guys were absolutely insane in a good way. Half of them are doctors now, which is actually pretty scary to think about...</p>
<p>And for those willing to make the trek downtown, the club scene in Chicago is incredibly vibrant, trailing only NYC and LA for late-nite dancing and boozing possibilities.</p>
<p>what about dead cats?</p>