<p>What is your perspective on this? I enjoy partying every once in a while, but not every day like some college students do. I like eating out at restaurants with friends and maybe going to a sporting event every so often. Would I have absolutely no social life there? I'm glad to have been admitted yesterday :D :D :D.</p>
<p>You’ll be fine. </p>
<p>For more detailed explanations, refer to older threads.</p>
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<p>saints2009, I hope it is true.</p>
<p>I’m sorry but this thread ****es the hell out of me. Clearly this guy knows nothing about the school; he just applied because he saw unrestricted ea and the top 10 USNWR label .What’s more, he’s either too lazy or too stupid to research the subject. It’s been covered to death both on this forum and virtually every other website. The answer is no, the University of Chicago is not the only place on the world where 9000 people can get together and not have fun, not party, not have random hook-ups, not go out and not watch sports. I have to wonder just how holistic the admission decisions really are /rant.</p>
<p>Lol, I can’t imagine a school where NOBODY likes to go out to eat or go to sporting events. The answer is no. The fun is alive and well at UChicago. You will find yourself equally accepted if you are a partier (there are parties basically every night, Wednesday-Saturday, from Bar Night to Thirsty Thursday, etc.) or if you just like to hang out with friends and chill. The stereotype is, honestly, just a little humor that we as students like to make fun of ourselves for. If the stereotype didn’t already exist, I would never have thought to describe UChicago as a place where fun comes to die. But we are rather self-selecting in that sense.</p>
<p>uchicago is so much funnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. seriously.</p>
<p>From my experience, it was both fun and not-fun, like any college experience. Some nights were loaded with work, other nights and weeks I was going out and drinking Wed-Sat.</p>
<p>Chicago doesn’t have a heavy binge drinking/loud party/frat culture, nor does it have some of the downsides that go along with an extreme party culture. This relative absence of that kind of culture has a lot to do with “Where fun comes to die,” as does the sort of ironic pride that students put into it. I think if you decide to come here, you recognize that you’ll be doing quite a bit of work, you will be shown up in class by somebody who is smarter than you, you won’t always make great grades, and people don’t measure “cool” but “hours spent getting wasted” here. AND, your relatives will think you go to a state school. (At least mine do!) I always felt that that slogan was our way of smirking to ourselves.</p>
<p>I found myself at people-dancing/music-blaring parties as well as classical-music/wine-drinking parties during my time there. Both were very fun for me.</p>
<p>That slogan needs to die. </p>
<p>I absolutely love UChicago and have been having the time of my life here. Yes, you will have to work very hard - harder than you have ever had to. Yes, there will be assignments and essays that make you cry. Yes, you may have to pull an all-nighter or several. But life at UChicago does not consist solely of studying. I have spent just as many (if not more) weekends traipsing around downtown and partying till 5 as I have studying and writing essays. In fact, the first 2 months of fall quarter, I went downtown almost every weekend. I know many, many people who religiously frequent the frat and apartment party scene. But I also know many people who like to hang out in the dorms, explore new restaurants around Hyde Park or walk up to the Point - sober - and a few who hole themselves up in their rooms. Likewise, parties are well-attended, but the A-Level of the Reg (all-nighter level of the library) is one of the most populated and social areas on campus. It’s a pretty good balance in my opinion. </p>
<p>Some things I’ve done quarter: seen multiple plays, gone to an opera, gone to a concert, gone to the Point, went to the Latke-Hamantash debate, went to Lascivious Ball, went to Fall Formal, attended multiple lectures, shopped and eaten downtown, went to the Obama rally. </p>
<p>So to answer your question, yes, social life is alive and well at UChicago, and there are PLENTY of fun activities to do, involving alcohol or otherwise.</p>
<p>tucker max seems to agree</p>
<p>I work with a dozen recent Chicago grads, all within the past 5 years. They dress alright, look people in eye, all the standard social abilities. They are good conversationalists. I see no signs of misery or excessive geekdom or any of Chicago’s alleged faults. And to a man (and woman), they tell me that the idea that Chicago is where fun goes to die is complete and total ********. </p>
<p>So I’m convinced, it’s complete and total ********.</p>