<p>Regarding cutting class for opening day of baseball, I recall in June after his first year at UChicago I was driving my son home. He was relating stories to me about how he had tried to live IN Chicago and not just AT Chicago. He told me he’d gone to 5 or 6 baseball games, for example, and that would be in just the 2 months since the season started in early April. “Oh,” I said, “Did you ever cut class to attend a baseball game?” “Yes,” he said, “On opening day.” I asked, “Which opening day did you attend, Cubs or Sox?” “BOTH,” he said. He graduated “with honors” 3 years later.</p>