<p>Is this really true?</p>
<p>Although many U of C students say its not...especially during the tours and stuff of campus.... how come it is said sooo often?</p>
<p>And when compared to other top notch schools, do U of C students... necessarily party less and are less socially active? -----> spend majority of time studying??</p>
<p>There are tons of old threads about this. The short answer is, NO the U of C of today is not a place where fun comes to die. 20 years ago when the College was struggling and just needed to get warm bodies in the seats, yah, it wasn’t that fun of a place. </p>
<p>Now, all the students admitted to Chicago are more than capable of keeping up with the work and keeping up with all their other interests. There are a lot more options for students to pursue their other interests, and on the whole, the student body is a lot more engaged in all the other aspects of traditional collegiate life.</p>
<p>I will say, Chicago has more of a HANG OUT culture than a hardcore PARTY culture. If you want tons of frats and kegs in the quad, look elsewhere. If you want a ton of coffeeshops and restaurants in the neighborhood, and access to a world-class city, look to the U of C. </p>
<p>Final note, Ugh I’m sick of this old and played mantra. It’s time for the phrase “where fun comes to die” to DIE.</p>
<p>To the OP, as Cue7 has mentioned, there has been TONS of threads about this. It won’t take you more than a few seconds searching them up.</p>
<p>How come it is said sooooo often?</p>
<p>– It’s a great, funny slogan.
– One of the UChicago houses funds its activities by selling a T-shirt with it to first years and visiting high schoolers.
– It’s less obscene than some of the other great, funny slogans on T-shirts you can buy, so you can wear it around your mom or at your high school. (A couple years ago, I was on vacation with my son, who was wearing one of those other Ts. An outraged 10-year-old girl confronted him and told him that he shouldn’t be wearing it. A few minutes later, the girl’s 11-year-old brother approached us to ask what it was about the T-shirt that was upsetting his sister; he didn’t get it. We told him he had to talk to his parents about it. Then my son went back to our hutch and changed shirts.)</p>
<p>^Is this why some people are still scared about Chicago?</p>
<p>Chicago still doesn’t seem to have the typical college atmosphere (unlike Northwestern and Michigan), but it definitely isn’t “where fun comes to die.”</p>
<p>“Where fun comes to die” is an example of Chicago’s self-deprecating huimor. If you take it seriously, you don’t being there.</p>
<p>The t-shirt my S’s house sells tells me EXACTLY why housing assigned him there. (No, he didn’t know that particular shirt was sold by that particular house when he applied for housing.)</p>
<p>Can we just make a big sticky about this issue so we can cut out all these other tiny threads that are posted every two weeks?</p>
<p>Mhmmm yea I looked around a little bit but it doesn’t really answer my question.</p>
<p>So according to Cue7, it used to be where “fun comes to die” back in the day?</p>
<p>Well, I guess the slogan has stuck XD</p>
<p>I talked to a grad student from there and he said that he recommended that I apply because it is definitely more school-oriented than…guess I should say social-life/“time-wasting partying etc” oriented. He said that there would be very few distractions and such because everyone is pretty competitive and classes are pretty difficult.</p>
<p>Just earlier today, a CCer posted that they “dont feel like they fit in” after their 1st-year.
I know everyone’s college experiences are different, but could people share more about their experiences at Chicago? My tour guide there wasn’t very enthusiastic at all =/</p>
<p>Heplayer - I guess it comes down to this: what are YOU looking for in a college?</p>
<p>Chicago has traditionally always been a more bookish, eggheaded university. What does this mean? Academics form the core of your life at the college. This is very different than the case at many other top colleges, where social life and other pursuits easily take up as much (if not more) time than academics. </p>
<p>Do you want a large frat scene at a top univ in an urban area? Look at UPenn. Do you want an outdoorsy school with a big drinking culture? Look at Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Again, academics are at the core of the U of C. At a lot of other schools, I feel like partying and your social life are at the core. The vast majority of students that choose Chicago choose it for its world-class academic opportunities. I don’t think this is necessarily the case when students choose some of Chicago’s peer schools (factors like status, social life, etc. often are much bigger influences at the other schools).</p>
<p>Well… Im at UChicago right now (staying in MaxP) and it’s almost 4 in the morning, and everyone is still awake and having a good time… It IS a lot of work, but I the weekends are definitely FUN.</p>
<p>Well, the school has brought back the Lascivious Costume Ball after it was disbanded in the 80s. If I’m correct, the “where fun goes to die” mantra arose after that decision was made.</p>
<p>Too bad it’s been toned down, because I had some neat costume ideas…</p>
<p>other examples of Chicago self-depricating humour:</p>
<p>the only thing that goes down on you here is your GPA.</p>
<p>As S1 likes to say, the academic aspects are part of the fun. People at Chicago tend to have fun with thought (aside from the usual fantasy material) as well as more traditional college fun.</p>
<p>My son is interning this summer in a fortune 500 company in Wall Street. the other day, when he was giving a presentation on his proposal to the CFO, she said something like “Oh, XXX is going off to U Chicago this fall where fun goes to die” I have the feeling that she did not mean it in a negative way at all: rather, having heard about the context of that remark from my son, it sounds rather like a compliment. Later when somebody was introducing him to the CEO, they made a point of saying he will be a freshman at UChicago this fall. </p>
<p>Le’ts put it this way, I would have not been happy if she said something like “Oh, XXX is going to the number 1 party school”. In fact, if his resume had a #1 party school listed as a school he will be attending this fall instead of U Chicago, he may not have had this position.</p>
<p>I actually like that infamous slogan very much as a financier of my son’s expensive education.</p>
<p>hhahah those slogans are great…</p>