Best intellectual Atmosphere schools

UofCman
Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:16:33 +0000

I graduated from the University of Chicago two years ago. I operate under no pro-Chicago agenda; I picked this screenname because HarvardMan sounded too pretentious for my tastes. The University of Chicago is almost universally identified as having an “intellectual atmosphere” – I’ll support this statement with a quote from the New York Times:



Ever since its creation on the South Side of Chicago in 1892 with a pile of Rockefeller money and a group of top-flight scholars, no academic institution has exemplified intellectual seriousness quite like the University of Chicago.



University of Chicago Comes to a Fork in the Road;

I have another one from the Washington Post. Would you like to see it?

If my inclusion of the University of Chicago was blatantly biased, I sincerely apologize. Please accept my apology and continue to write about your vicarious experiences at a school you never attended. What was the food like? I thought it was abysmal, but I would rather trust the opinion of someone who heard it from someone else.

And about these supercompetitive students…I never got a chance to meet them, but like you, I’ve heard an awful lot about them. Do they have horns? Or do they pretty much look and talk like regular people (this would be scarier, I would think)?