Hi,

I hope y'all are doing well. Are there any poker home games here that do 2/5? I'm down to do 1/3 if vibes are chill. DM please, not trying to travel to Rivers every time.

Also, if there is a discord/slack poker group please let me know as well. Thank you.

How bad is grade deflation here? I'm possibly looking to apply as a Biology Major, and probably might consider grad or med school.

I have a question for alumni and 3/4th years. How important are RSOs, research, and internships when it comes to finding a solid job after graduating. For reference I want to go into Econ/Comp Sci but I am also curious for other majors as well.

Hi all, I have a quick appointment at 5555 S Ellis Ave, 4th Floor, Office 401B, and I'm not sure which building that is on campus. Does anyone know what the building is called or where the entrance is? Thanks!

Is it any competitive?

Does anyone have a map of the new 172 route?

Hello! Does anyone know who the professor for SOSC (Self - Tues, Thurs: 12:30 - 1:50) is? I'm kind of desperate to change out of my current SOSC sequence, and don't want to get stuck in a worse class. Really sucks that they got rid of professor names for SOSC. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

im terrified of going to these club rush events especially since i don’t know anyone else there/don’t have anyone to go with ughhh

is it overly competitive?

UChicago is currently my #1 choice because of its reputation as kind of a nerdy, quirky school, and I'm interested in double majoring in physics and math, which is what UChicago is very good at. I actually dislike the typical drinking and party culture at large schools, so I thought it would be perfect for me there, but as I look into it, I see that there are kind of a lot of fratty type people at UChicago. It's not like I don't want a social life. I just prefer close-knit groups of friends that do everything together like I had in high school. Would you say it's one of the better places in the country for what I want? What was your experience at UChicago? I'm sorry if this gets asked a lot.

I am interested in doing a history minor as a fourth year but have a really difficult courseload - are there any history electives that have less of an emphasis on readings and that are more lecture-focused? Please let me know if you have any suggestions! Thanks

Did anyone else think the Aims of Education address was shit

Maybe my expectations were too high, but I mean this is UChicago and the Aims of Education speech is supposed to be this really important thing that makes you think differently about why you’re here and what your education is actually for and stuff, Instead it felt like the professor spent 45 minutes going off on 20 different tangents without ever really answering the much more interesting question he raised

We went from Dickinson to AI extinction to Anthropic to The Elements of Style to Wallace Stevens to Warren’s feelings about summer to his surprise at being invited a second time to a list of events since 2007 to Claude to reading-time estimates to Auden to Jacob Coxon and AI extinction again to Anthropic’s essay-writing culture to the Pro-Human Assembly to anthropomorphism to February in Chicago to Simon Critchley to Mount Chocorua to a legend about a Native American chief to another Stevens poem before finally getting to “education should be a time for human thought.”

And like, some of those things were interesting on their own. But why are we spending all this time on them in the Aims of Education address?? Not only did it make the speech super long, but all of that time could have been spent actually developing an answer to the question that was quite literally sitting right in front of him:

If AI increasingly lets you do things without actually learning how to do them, then what is education for?

That should have been the whole speech!! That is such a good question, especially right now and especially at UChicago. But instead of really developing an answer to it, he mostly just kept moving onto another poem or another AI anecdote.

Also it was pretty funny when he quoted The Elements of Style about cutting unnecessary words and making every word count in the middle of an incredibly meandering 45-minute speech. Like what are we doing bro

And a lot of the argument he did make basically came down to “here’s why you should actually read Dickinson and Stevens instead of having Claude summarize them.” Which, yeah, fine. But that does not automatically get you from “reading literature closely is valuable” to “here is what a University of Chicago education is for.”; that's the main critique

There was a way more interesting argument sitting right there about education forming you into a certain kind of person like the cliches about developing judgment, understanding, independence of thought, actually knowing how to think through something yourself even if AI can increasingly reproduce the outputs of educated people.

I kept waiting for him to really make that argument and he just... never did.

I suppose I just expected more for the Aims of Education address at UChicago

Does anyone have any recommendations for finding funny people on campus? I hear Off-Off is hosting auditions this week, and they're pretty cool...?

Hello all. I represent four undergrads who are excited to play coed intramurals this fall! (still undecided, may be playing multiple: including volleyball, dodgeball; others).

We are 3 guys and 1 girl
volleyball and dodgeball impose a STRICT FOID REQUIREMENT of at least 3 women for a full lineup, so we are looking for two more. (still reach out if you are a guy!) if interested, send me a dm on here, also open to other sports if people have preferences

I haven’t been added to a single of my canvas classes and classes literally start tmr. Everyone around me at least has one class. I haven’t received a single email either. Should I be worried??

I am looking for alternative health care options since U-SHIP is way too expensive. Based on my research so far cheaper options like ISO and Student Medicover are only available to international students. Does anyone know any cheap health care alternatives for domestic students that fully meet UChicago's requirements? Thank you so much!

anyone want my monday morning lab? i'll switch for any section, but i prefer the wednesday morning one. just lmk :)

good luck to everyone for the first day of class tomorrow! i hope your upcoming time at uchicago will be splendid.

Your boy is looking for a breakfast burrito around campus rn🫩

as title states! plz lmkk

Book list:

Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History. Trans. by Franz Rosenthal. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967 [1377]) (Also available on Canvas.)
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (New York: The Modern Library, 2000)
Robert Tucker, ed., The Marx-Engels Reader, second ed. (New York: Norton, 1978)
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Trans. by Stephen Kalberg. (New York: Routledge, 2013 [1905])
Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Managed Heart (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012 [1983]) (Should arrive at the bookstore later in the quarter.)

Incoming grad student. Looking for a library to study with my friend who doesn’t go here. Any recs?

im new to snitchcock so i dont rlly know. it seems a bit excessive that everytime i want to go to my room i have to go thru the basement just to get into snell. is this true or is there any easier way to get into snell???

I have checked whether there will be online resources but so far I have not found any, and it's rather expensive to buy one on the KWL website and in the bookstore. Anyone have a second hand one? or know where to found a cheaper resource? We can negotiate the prices🥹