<p>It grows on you. When I went there with S1 in 2007 I was just short of horrified. I visited a “normal” off campus apartment shared by 4 students and I it took me back 37 years to when I went to college in a small southern town (in the worst sense, come on,this is the first decade of the XXI century, not the 70’s). My question was: "I’ve worked my behind off for 35 years to send my child to live like this (_____expletive deleted)? Then we went academic. I didn’t get it right away, but S1 did. He loved it and over 4 years he learned to love it even more and it made a believer out of me, incredulous as I was that anything good could come out of this journey. I wouldn’t go as far as beautiful, but wonderful I would have to agree wholeheartedly to. After a while you see that it all makes sense. Really great sense. The Life of the Mind: like looking at a Higgs boson for the first time. We got our money’s worth and then some. Thank you UChicago, you’ve seen nothing yet.</p>