Is Stony Island that bad?

JHS
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:50:37 +0000

It’s a block from a Metra station and a block from the 6 bus stop. It’s easier to get downtown from there than from any other UChicago dorm. Lots of kids find they like that. In addition to the apartment-style living, with kitchen and living rooms.

What tends to happen is that the kids who are living in large, on-campus dorms tend not to remember there is anyone living in smaller, off-campus dorms. They assume the kids in those dorms are weird, folklore develops about how weird and insular they are, with no basis in fact. The on-campus kids talk about how crappy the off-campus dorms must be, and there are a lot of on-campus kids, so that becomes the off-campus dorm’s reputation. Meanwhile, the kids living in the off-campus dorm are perfectly happy with it. Or not, but not for the reasons that the on-campus kids imagine.

They do get grumpy about their house having a crummy reputation, and about friends on-campus not wanting to come all the way to their dorm for anything. Or not even knowing where their dorm is and how to get there, which is not uncommon, unfortunately, especially since Stony is not on most of the campus maps.