Community at U of C

uchicagoalumna
Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:10:27 +0000

magda-

I have a few thoughts here.

1) When you think of community you think of a small liberal arts college where everybody is very into being a part of an “intentional community” and dorms are clustered closely together on a relatively isolated campus. There is a kind of community that I think schools like Dartmouth, Haverford, Grinnell, Carleton, etc. specialize in and I think this is a community Chicago has, but not quite in the same degree.

2) Your overnight was a small and not particularly representative sample of what being a Chicago student is like.

3) When I was a student I found a pretty cohesive network of people who all knew each other even though I met them independently. I wouldn’t say we were kumbaya-style community, but we took classes together, worked together, played together.