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Date: Jul 26 2004 Major: Anthropology (This Major's Salary over time) I attended the University of Chicago from 1993 to winter 1995. Although I made the dean's list during my second year; I was miserable, sleep-deprived, and socially isolated the entire time. I eventually withdrew because of increasingly severe depression.There is no question that many students who attened the University of Chicago found it to be a very worthwhile experience. I would like to be as helpful as possible to students considering this school, and so I will try to briefly outline some concerns I have about it. They may or may not apply to you.1. The college culture puts a great deal of pressure on incoming students to give up any non-academic passions they might have. I found it very hard to see each new crop of fresh-faced and often funny teenagers turn into pedantic grinds—often in a matter of months.2. I have been out of college for some time, and have men a number of people from different social classes. With rare exceptions, the professors and upperclassmen at the University of Chicago were the most arrogant and self-absorbed people I have every met. If you value intellectual humility, you will be miserable at Chicago.3. "Critical Thinking" is really just a code for "creative regurgitation" of a professor's own opinions. If you are the type of person who takes the subject more seriously than the class, you will not do well.4. If you do not intend to be a specialist in a field, you will likely get second class treatment. I lacked the background for the honors mathematics sequence, and was forced into the purgatorial 150 calculus sequence. It was taught by a contemptuous foreign grad student who used foreign notation and mocked students who asked questions. I got good grades somehow, but learned nothing.I've made a lot of very poor decisions in my life, and attending Chicago ranks among the worst.I suppose I should point out that I'm not just an anti-intellectual nitwit. I'm a nut for transcendental idealism and mathematical foundations, and I'm studying set theory independently and enjoying *A Critique of Pure Reason* more than anything I've read in a while.I'm sorry to say I wasn't introduced to either of these beautiful fields at Chicago.
Major: Anthropology (This Major's Salary over time)
I attended the University of Chicago from 1993 to winter 1995. Although I made the dean's list during my second year; I was miserable, sleep-deprived, and socially isolated the entire time. I eventually withdrew because of increasingly severe depression.There is no question that many students who attened the University of Chicago found it to be a very worthwhile experience. I would like to be as helpful as possible to students considering this school, and so I will try to briefly outline some concerns I have about it. They may or may not apply to you.1. The college culture puts a great deal of pressure on incoming students to give up any non-academic passions they might have. I found it very hard to see each new crop of fresh-faced and often funny teenagers turn into pedantic grinds—often in a matter of months.2. I have been out of college for some time, and have men a number of people from different social classes. With rare exceptions, the professors and upperclassmen at the University of Chicago were the most arrogant and self-absorbed people I have every met. If you value intellectual humility, you will be miserable at Chicago.3. "Critical Thinking" is really just a code for "creative regurgitation" of a professor's own opinions. If you are the type of person who takes the subject more seriously than the class, you will not do well.4. If you do not intend to be a specialist in a field, you will likely get second class treatment. I lacked the background for the honors mathematics sequence, and was forced into the purgatorial 150 calculus sequence. It was taught by a contemptuous foreign grad student who used foreign notation and mocked students who asked questions. I got good grades somehow, but learned nothing.I've made a lot of very poor decisions in my life, and attending Chicago ranks among the worst.I suppose I should point out that I'm not just an anti-intellectual nitwit. I'm a nut for transcendental idealism and mathematical foundations, and I'm studying set theory independently and enjoying *A Critique of Pure Reason* more than anything I've read in a while.I'm sorry to say I wasn't introduced to either of these beautiful fields at Chicago.