United States: Illinois: Chicago: South Side: Southeast Side: Hyde Park: University Of Chicago

mocchiatta
Los Angeles

Worth visiting!

A review of this place: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

University of Chicago is by all means a wonderful institution. I’m definitely enjoying a lot of the courses I’m taking, such as “Hurricane Katrina and American Politics” and “Genocide After WWII.” Classes are, depending on how careful you are about registering, very good.

Of course, the UofC is also famous for its Core Curriculum. When I was a first year, it was a great guiding template. However, after that, I pretty much knew what I wanted to do so I found the Core to be tedious and quite stupid; many courses I had to take to simply fulfill the general education requirement lowered my GPA for example.

Now, add all of that to the nonexistent social life and things get messy. The campus is pretty much dead in terms of debauchery. I pretty much escape Hyde Park into the city to enjoy life!

Comments:

wicky
Chicago

prospective student...

basically im a HS senior and I’m looking into the school. thanks for the input. what’s your major?

mocchiatta
Los Angeles

UofC

Hey. I’m a Political Science/International Studies major. Granted, the most popular major is probably economics, but I’m not a math/science gal, so I’m very happy with what I’m doing so far. Classes are not easy by any means, but they do challenge you to think differently. I like the fact that there is a bit of a shopping period where the first two weeks of school, you’ll allowed to go and sit through classes before fully committing yourself to the 3 or 4 classes for the quarter.

wicky
Chicago

sounds cool. i went up this weekend, met a few people and saw the campus again and i’m on the fence about the school especially the lack of socialness. what do people do on weekends up there?


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