Chicago-- my favorite links

Colleges & Universities University of Chicago
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<p>A combination of amusing things I send to other people all the time and things you may find usefu. You have so much time on your hands now, you might as well do somethingl :-)</p>

<p>[The</a> University of Chicago PSAC: Why did I decide to come to the University of Chicago?](<a href=“http://psac.uchicago.edu/why_decide.html]The”>http://psac.uchicago.edu/why_decide.html)
[University</a> of Chicago Virtual Dorm Tour](<a href=“Page Not Found | University of Chicago”>Page Not Found | University of Chicago)
[Chicago:</a> Curriculum](<a href=“http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level2.asp?id=7]Chicago:”>http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level2.asp?id=7)
[Courses</a> & Programs of Study](<a href=“http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/]Courses”>http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/)</p>

<p>This viewbook is delicious. The one I remember getting was nowhere near as nice:
[::</a> The University of Chicago ::](<a href=“http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/lifeofthemind/]::”>http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/lifeofthemind/)
[ChicagoLife:</a> A User’s Guide for Students](<a href=“http://life.uchicago.edu/]ChicagoLife:”>http://life.uchicago.edu/)</p>

<p>A hidden gem:
[The</a> University of Chicago - Office of College Admissions - Test Prep](<a href=“College Admissions at the University of Chicago”>http://phoenix.uchicago.edu/testprep)</p>

<p>Some of Dean O’Neill’s past convocation speeches. Really funny:
[Convocation</a> Speech: Class of 2007](<a href=“College Admissions at the University of Chicago”>College Admissions at the University of Chicago)
[Convocation</a> Speech: Class of 2008](<a href=“College Admissions at the University of Chicago”>College Admissions at the University of Chicago)
[Convocation</a> Speech: Class of 2005](<a href=“College Admissions at the University of Chicago”>College Admissions at the University of Chicago)</p>

<p>This speech made me want to go here so badly. Really long, not that funny, but most Chicago kids have read it at one point or another. This essay, basically, is our school in a not-so-small nutshell:
[The</a> Aims of Education Address (for the class of 2006)](<a href=“http://www.ditext.com/abbott/abbott_aims.html]The”>The Aims of Education Address (for the class of 2006))</p>

<p>Last year’s admitted students blog, to be rejuiced for this year. Lots and lots of scav pics:
[The</a> University of Chicago - Class of 2012 Blog](<a href=“http://thickenvelope.blogspot.com/]The”>http://thickenvelope.blogspot.com/)</p>

<p>For the second city herself:
Experience Chicago-- written by U of C students
Chicagoist
Metromix</p>

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<p>Thanks! Could you put the application blog here as well?</p>

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<p>uncommonapplication.blogspot.com</p>

<p>It will probably become less and less helpful to those who have already applied, but it’s a good website to have on hand.</p>

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<p>“The Aims of Education Address” was a wonderful read. I have to wonder how may freshmen appreciated it, though, or even understood it. Unalove must have been a real geek in school, if that inspired her to go to Chicago :-)</p>

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<p>I was actually talking to a bunch of 2011-ers yesterday whom had also read it. Word gets around.</p>

<p>I read this speech for the first time in my first year-- if I were to point at a real trigger for coming here, though, it would have been when I visited the school with my older brother and the tour guide said rather of matter-of-factly, “The kinds of people who come here didn’t feel right in high school.”</p>

<p>Granted, the school has changed a lot since I first toured it, and I wasn’t even in high school yet when I heard that, but it struck me, then and there, that this was the school for me. I put that idea on hold, though, until late junior year of high school… if people asked me where I wanted to go to college, I invariably lied and said Yale or Columbia… I didn’t want anybody tarnishing the U of C for me with their own impressions of the school.</p>