<p>PS - this may be better in another thread, but I think the rep Chicago should try to reinforce is that it’s kind of like “the MIT of liberal arts colleges.” A classmate of mine at Chicago said that to me, and it’s always rung true. Both schools are into cutting edge scholarship and research, and whenever I see the new buildings going up at Chicago (the plans for the new arts center, the massive bubble library by the Regenstein), it always draws me back to comparisons with MIT’s unconventional campus. MIT also has a core of “old school” buildings, but one look at some of their newer stuff, and the comparisons ring even more clearly in my mind…</p>