<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>