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unalove
Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:24:55 +0000

Hey, you’re talking about me!

Other than that this website is my primary procrastination and zoneout mechanism (I spend barely any time on facebook/youtube/etc.) I guess I just like answering questions and being the prospie gerbil every once in a while. I try not to answer questions that I don’t have the authority to answer (questions about admissions, med school, etc.) sometimes it’s too hard not to supply an answer-- maybe not factual, but a very educated guess.

If people ask a factual question, I’m bound to give a factual answer/reference a website. If people ask an opinion question (“Say, is this really Where Fun Comes to Die?”), then I’m bound to give my opinion (Only if you want it to be). My opinions are incredibly biased, and as you do not know me and I do not know you, they may be hard to evaluate. Just the way you’ll always see a movie if friend A recommends it and you’ll know to avoid it if friend B recommends it, I have no idea if my reflections will be at all important, significant, or meaningful to you.

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When I was looking at schools, Chicago was the only “personality” school I had on my list and the rest were your standard-fare elite schools. Now, having done lots and lots of college research retroactively through this website and sources like Fiske Guide (which I didn’t open until after I started college… hmmm), I think I would have been better off had I had more schools with “personality” on my college list, as the Uncommon gimmick appeals to me, as pretentious as it can be. Part of our personality, I think, is pretension, to the extent that pretentious people tend to be forward about being academic, even when the social context may point towards toning down the smart-level. This goes back to my other comments about social awkwardness: I’m pretty sure that most of the students at Chicago who come off as pretentious have no idea that they come off that way, as to them, grilling their friends and acquaintances or pointing out grammar errors is a lot of fun and what they do naturally.

What I don’t like, on the other hand, is the “Life of the Mind” slogan. That’s the “we’re so above you because we’re smart” slogan to me. On the other hand, it seems to appeal to a lot of prospies. If the prospies like it, it’s no big deal by me.