Exciting Area around Campus

ImmanuelKant
Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:50:05 +0000

Haha, but to the OP, even despite the sometimes less than secure neighborhood, UChicago is still my top choice this year. So, I mean, the school’s excellence really trumped all the potential dangers for me. And I mean, I’ve spent too much of my life in a boring, upper-middle class neighborhood anyway.

I second JHS’s evaluation. What there is to do in HP is connected with the university, and there’s usually much to do, e.g., DocFilms. Honestly, this is the way the university wanted it. They shut down movie theaters in Hyde Park in an effort to discourage outsiders from coming to the neighborhood, and, of course, subsequently got a lot of criticism for it. UChicago wants to create a bubble for you, and that is has done. But breaking it isn’t hard, if you really want to; I found getting downtown very convenient.