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Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby
University of Chicago is, in my opinion, the epitome of the ivory tower. The campus is disconnected from the community, and if you look at the academic focus of many departments, they are laden in theory and removed from practical application (for example, they don't even have an engineering program). For years, it had the reputation of being "where fun goes to die", and they actually remade their brochures recently to make sure that they featured more smiling students. It's a great school if you want to live "the life of the mind", but it is its very own world.
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I worked with a few UChicago students one summer. (They have this entrepreneur program through the business school and my boss was a student who was running a start up company as part of her coursework...or something like that? lol) Our office was in their college of business building, so I'm a little bit familiar with campus. I definitely agree with your bolded statement.
Pesronally, I did like the immediate neighborhood, although I don't think I'd like to live there as a student. I will agree with you, Dee, that you just did not see students out and about like you do at other campuses.
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