The University of Chicago

Date: Jun 11 2005
Major: Undecided (This Major's Salary over time)
This school is amazing in terms of resources, especially if you are of an intellectual bent. Classes are great—I only had one prof (out of seven) that was bad, and it was because she was inexperienced and spoke english badly. Teaching quality is amazing. However, you will have to work very hard to keep up a good grade record, which I found out the hard way. The social life here is not so great as to make non-partiers into party animals, but if you do party you can find good events 2-3 times per week (but don't expect two things on one night all the time; in fact there are some Saturday nights when nothing is going on). There are definitely "types" of students here: the debate kid, the physics major, the slacker, the recluse, even the jock—and everyone fits in somewhere. Diversity is great and people find themselves (corny as this sounds) making many friends of different cultures. The dorm system is great; even if your dorm facility is crappy your dorm would be more social to compensate. Dining sucks and is overpriced, even at the newest dining hall. And the living situation can be a bit intense, esp. if you throw dormcest and a high workload into the mix. On the whole though, I would definitely recommend this school to just about everyone (not just hardcore geeks); I assure you it never gets "that bad" (suicidally miserable as commonly portrayed). Chicago is a great city when the winter gets gray—just hop on the bus/subway and you're there. My biggest piece of advice is to come in ready to do work—the rest of your college life will turn out just great: such is the magnificent U of C.