<p>I certainly hope so...but what with my Pops being incredibly white, probably not.</p>
<p>Oh that's alright. As long as you have soul brother...</p>
<p>Fo sho....</p>
<p>Wow, some of the responses in this thread reminded me why I'm going to Penn instead. Of course, now I'll get flamed for going to the "party" Ivy.</p>
<p>Heck, go wherever you want. No one is saying you have to, or even should go to Chicago. If you want to go get wasted most of the week, go ahead. I guarantee you no one on this forum cares.</p>
<p>oooooooo, hes' going to get wasted!!! :eek:</p>
<p>sexually wasted?</p>
<p>It's only teenage wasteland...</p>
<p>and then eventually over-the-hill wasteland....</p>
<p>Okay, as a student at UChicago, I'm going to throw my two cents in.</p>
<p>As far as frats: Yeah, most of us avoid them. They're not really the place to meet people anyway. Remember this if/when you come to the UofC: Apartment parties are the way to go!!</p>
<p>Do we get drunk? Yes, quite a lot. There often will be some other soft drugs at parties, and people use them too. The amazing wonderfulness is that while drunk and stoned and who knows what else at parties, people are still talking about that math, and physics, astronomy and philosophy, history and political science, linguistics and computer science and anything else. While totally trashed or wasted, we're still deliciously nerdy. We make out and bring sexy strangers home while drunk and then talk about Star Trek with those strangers. </p>
<p>Do we get drunk and party? Yeah. A lot of us do. Probably a majority. But even while in a drunken haze, we're still passionate about our academics, we still talk about them, and we can really talk about exactly what we're interested in without thinking others will think us uncool. </p>
<p>I promise you-- it is amazing.</p>
<p>^^^
I don't know, I enjoy learning and all and I don't mind talking about schools that I'm interested in, but when I'm drunk that's the last thing on my mind. Oh well I guess this thread goes to show that there are a lot of genuinely learning curious students at U Chicago and the majority of the social scene is molded around such a curiosity. However, one can also find a small group that gets wasted like other schools students, which I personally also look for. It's up to you to make the experience what you really want it to be.</p>
<p>I read somewhere that someone at UofC tried to prove to her friends that she wasn't wasted by doing integrals in her head.</p>
<p>When I was 16 my parents bought me a tattoo for Christmas and my mom took my mind off of the pain by teaching me how to do integrals (I'd just done differentiation before that) and making me do them in my head. The tattoo artist thought that we were <em>insane</em>.</p>
<p>When I was 16 my parents bought me a plane ticket to visit my relatives for Christmas and my mom took my mind off the pain by teaching me how to tolerate people I can't stand (prior to that I'd just scowl at them) and by making me smile and act polite. The child within me thought I was <em>insane</em>.</p>
<p>Ehehehehe.
Ehahahhaha.
HAHHAHAHAHAH!!.
HA!HA!HAH!HAHAH!!!
MUAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHA!!!!</p>
<p>Hmm. :)</p>
<p>Sweet Jesus.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>bwahahahah awesome post.</p>
<p>
[quote]
He and some of his HS friends who attend Harvard, NW, Stanford, Yale, Duke, etc. all got together over break and compared notes. S was shocked to learn that though his classes were more demanding and the grading curve lower (for a similar course for the exact same % of points, he got a B+ while his Stanford friend got an A+), he had actually done more socially and made more new friends than they had.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Wow...your son and his friends decided they would all pack their notes, brought them home, and held a "conference" to compare them as if they still missed them after their exams? What a strange group and meeting with an awkward purpose! Regarding what you said about grading curve..etc, note the homework/exam questions and caliber of students are all different. Chicago's average GPA is like 3.26 (which is almost B+) but Stanford's average GPA is around 3.45, not 4.3 (A+). I am curious what that course with such generous (even by Stanford's standard) grading is so maybe I can tell Stanford premeds to take it.</p>
<p>I hope you were being facetious (humor is at times hard to detect in text), they were not comparing class notes but talking about what life was like at each campus. 95% = an A, or A+ in this case, is not as generous as a 95% = a B+ is stingy (at least from my point of view). I don't recall which class it was, I will ask.</p>
<p>You know...there is more to Esquared than this website is letting on...</p>
<p>Is it coincidence that your post count approaches the devil's number? :p</p>