<p>when is your decision deadline?</p>
<p>Sheed30, thanks for the idea. I'm not a part of the Chicago Facebook group yet because I haven't received my UChicago e-mail address, which you need to become a member. I've sent in my acceptance card, but I haven't received any "welcome" materials yet.</p>
<p>chicagoboy12, my decision is due in roughly two weeks. I'm waiting for Penn to send me my financial aid information before I completely reject the idea of attending.</p>
<p>oatmealia</p>
<p>Actually Chicago is one of the few schools you DO NOT need your UChicago email address to join their group. Here's the link:</p>
<p>The group's pretty amazing, just introduce yourself and bring up a random topic and we'll all go crazay.</p>
<p>Oh, thank you. I wonder why I had that impression? Maybe I was confusing groups with networks.</p>
<p>That reminds me. As a transfer, am I considered part of the Class of 2012? Or just a transfer? I should be graduating in 2012, if all goes well.</p>
<p>Transfer or not, you have every legit right to join us if you're graduating in 2012 :)</p>
<p>What have you decided?</p>
<p>I'm looking forward less and less to this school now, which will be full of "quirky" people that use words like "titillate" without knowing their meaning, looking silly in the process.</p>
<p>lchal1-- I really wouldn't worry about it. I remember floating around the internet before coming here, and I remember that some people's internet representations of themselves turned me off a little. Really didn't turn out to be an issue.</p>
<p>I would also point out that people's electronic representations of themselves are not necessarily truthful to how they appear in person or even as a friend. For example, I don't know what opinion you have of me or my personality as it comes over these airwaves, but it's probably a very different one from if you knew me as a friend or knew me as a person.</p>
<p>And I think it's fair for everybody to consider that no matter where you go, in college and in life, there are going to be a lot of people whom you don't like or you think you don't like. There are people here whom I don't think are going to be my best friends anytime soon. There are people who have blocked off my repeated attempts to strike up a friendship, and there are people whom I don't think I could ever have a conversation with on a subject that both interested us. The important thing is that I've found a lot of people I really like being with, and so have they.</p>
<p>^I appreciate your feedback-- i guess that puts me at ease in some respects heh.</p>
<p>I really don't think of myself as a quirky person, and I'm aware of the sexual connotations of the word "titillate," if that's what you're referring to. But the word is not strictly a signal of literal sexual excitement, no matter how it's popularly used.</p>
<p>Anyhow, unalove is right. I have good friends in real life who I don't really click with through writing, and online friends who I don't think I'd be able to respond to well over the phone.</p>
<p>I smell a THAT guy.....</p>
<p>You mean a THAT person? (Let's not be sexist....haha)</p>
<p>I seriously think that the "quirkiness" of this institution has been exaggerated. When I visited, all I saw (and chatted with) were "NORMAL PEOPLE".....there are the occasional weirdo's, but for the most part they're pretty chill (I stayed at Pierce, so maybe that's a factor? Oh and I'm also putting down Pierce as #1 for priority housing, haha).</p>
<p>...unless...my standards for "normalcy" are too low....I..wouldn't really know about that then....</p>
<p>Lol, nobody understands how magical Pierce can be until they prospie there.</p>
<p>I think I mentioned before that Chicago's student body is very varied, and I wasn't lying, because I was thinking about all of my housemates as a cross-section of the school what they are like (some loud, some quiet), how they dress (some in CTY t-shirts from third grade, some in J. Crew and Abercrombie), and what they like to do in their free time (read up on physics, go shopping, party, watch TV, have drawn out debates about things).</p>
<p>Because everybody's very different from one another, there's no real standard of "normal," though a lot of people do follow collegiate and societal norms, as in, they are the same kids you would find at any other elite college.</p>