<p>The title says it all… Alumni/current students opinions would be great, as well as any others!</p>
<p>Does irony exist?</p>
<p>haha good one Rny2
I wonder whats with people starting a thread with this same silly question</p>
<p>i would highly recommend visiting. Since you don’t know our perception of fun, the comments here are useless, but I wouldn’t say that this is where fun comes to die. Come and visit; go to a party. Only you can really decide what you define as fun. Good luck.</p>
<p>I am not a current student but I did visit. Students were definitely having fun. I actually saw a group of students selling clothes which looked fun to me. I went to the campus bookstore which was a packed full of students having fun. I think it’s what you make of the situation. UChicago is located in Chicago so there is usually something to do.</p>
<p>Our guide basically said that if you seek it out, you’ll have fun, even if fun is studying. Plus all the people said scav hunt is enough fun for an entire year.</p>
<p>Pardon my saying so, but those are some weak-ass answers. There is no shortage of fun to be had at Chicago, at the university and elsewhere, and undergraduates have plenty of fun. Not just at Scav Hunt – which IS fun, at least for lots of people, but certainly not enough to last the whole year, and other people wish Scav would go away and never return – there are parties and dances and underage drinking and illicit substances and hooking up and not hooking up and falling in love and theater and movies and art and 50 kinds of music and cheap ethnic food and midnight soccer and games out the wazoo (virtual and live) and goofing around and doing dorky things without apologies and doing cool things too. The whole enchilada. What happens when 5,000 18-24 year-olds with fully functioning hormones, ids, and curiosity hang out together.</p>
<p>What differs compared to some other schools is: (a) There’s very little culture of people pretending that they are not smart and they are not interested in the world of ideas, even if they happen to be destroying some brain cells at the time. The Core gives people a lot of common ground on which to talk about ideas, and the Admissions Department pretty much insures that everybody is someone who likes to do that sometimes. (b) There is maybe a bit more moderation – fewer people getting absolutely plastered and doing it less frequently, not so much property destruction, and no attitude that if you are not getting drunk there’s something wrong with you. (c) There does seem to have been a time, in the not-so-distant past (15-20 years ago, and counting), when fun was more likely to be on life support. The University has put a lot of effort over the last few decades in improving the non-classroom undergraduate experience, and that effort has paid off.</p>
<p>Basically, “where fun comes to die” is a joke. If you get the joke, and think it’s funny, you would probably like the University of Chicago. If you don’t get the joke, you won’t likely be interested in the University of Chicago, and that’s probably all for the best. (If you don’t get the joke and you WANT to come to Chicago because of that . . . well, you are making a mistake, but there aren’t a lot of other top universities where people will be as respectful of your desire not to have any fun.)</p>
<p>TCWest made what I said sound pretty bad. If you’re looking for a party school, look somewhere else. If you’re looking for a place with strong academics, but you want to party too, then this place will be fine.</p>
<p>Haha sorry about that 
both my interview and tour guide hate hearing people say that there is no fun there lol</p>
<p>According to Wikipedia, Fun died and was buried at the University of Chicago in 1892. There is a tomb and monument on campus.
But on the bright side, if you’re looking for fun, Charlie Sheen is looking for interns.</p>
<p>Haha thanks</p>
<p>Princeton Review just came out with their list of colleges where students study the most. Chicago is all the way down at #9.</p>
<p>I’m a current student, and this is a question people (non-UChicagoans) ask me all the time. Despite the commonly known fact that this t-shirt slogan is the epitome of irony, I do understand that prospective students may have concerns about student life outside of the classroom, and whether or not it’s enjoyable. </p>
<p>The fun that is to be had here - and trust me, there’s plenty - depends on how you define it. Want to go to fraternities and dance on tables? You can do that. Want to watch a professional play at our on campus theatre? You can do that. Want to go to dinner downtown with your house and stuff yourself with deep dish pizza? You can do that. </p>
<p>I think the thing that separates UChicago from other schools is that we are here to learn, and that the majority of us see this as a form of fun anyway. We’re also incredibly driven - you’re going to see the same person that you bumped into at an apartment party on the fifth floor of the Regenstein library during the week. I’ve had a wonderful time at UChicago, and I spend a lot of my weekends on campus, both at parties and doing work. </p>
<p>Trust me, fun is far from dead here. But what drives us isn’t a want to get drunk and go crazy every night…it’s ambition.</p>
<p>The mail I’ve gotten from UChicago so far definitely displays that intellectual sense of humor I like about the school. </p>
<p>One had some scavenger hunt objects that were so funny, but my sister didn’t get. Like “Garden Gnome Chomsky”, for example. She didn’t see the humor in “Scratch and Sniff Map of Chicago”, either. :(</p>
<p>UC is my first choice atm.</p>
<p>Happy to see all these responses in here.</p>
<p>Is the air show fun? Well, maybe tomorrow.</p>
<p>I think sometimes when high school students ask this question, what they are really asking is…</p>
<p>… will I have the opportunity to drink beer with my friends?
… will I have the opportunity to get to meet new people and then some?
… will I do things I didn’t do in high school?</p>
<p>… and, with minor exceptions, I can almost guarantee that if you attend the University of Chicago, the answer to those three questions will be “yes.”</p>
<p>You’ll also work hard and be busy, you’re not going to find a lot of empty time where you’re WISHING you could find something to do, but this is college, and there are 5,000 other students, who, like you, are asking those same questions.</p>
<p>I got the Mandelbrot wurst postcard today. Hilarious!</p>