<p>Cue7: I think you could be right on the macro scale, but JBVirtuoso totally got where I was going with my original comment!</p>
<p>Everyone’s right! Unalove’s completely valid point is that Chicago students aren’t some sort of Vulcan species for whom logic, rigor, and intellectualism are the only things that compute. They hang out uselessly with friends, sometimes drink too much, and spend plenty of energy trying to have sex, just like smart college students everywhere. Cue7’s equally valid point is that Chicago is one of the few places that really has a distinctive character that’s not interchangeable with 6-7 other colleges. and that is noticeably different from the distinctive characters some of its peer institutions have. If you start by asking “how is Chicago different from [Yale, Columbia, Brown, Stanford]?” you will get one set of answers, but if you ask “how are they similar” you could get a list a mile long.</p>
<p>“KMad”: </p>
<p>You forgot the time when someone put a hollowed out peach on someone’s doorknob…</p>
<p>JHS is right, as always :D</p>
<p>I just like to point out that along with being bright, quirky, awkward, etc. we can be pretty normal, too. If the Texts from Last Night facebook group is any accurate metric, there’s a lot of typical college debauchery mixed in with references to mock trial and Jane Eyre. Based on my experiences, not so far from reality!</p>