Science and Chicago life

JHS
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:22:25 +0000

The University of Chicago can feel as urban as you want it to be. If you stay on campus all the time, and never leave Hyde Park, you will probably be aware that you’re in a city (and may not walk alone late at night outside the central campus area), but you will hardly feel overwhelmed. On the other hand, you can hop on the El, the Metra, or the 6 bus and be in the Big City in the Loop, or in hip, funky neighborhoods all over.

You’ll regret it later if you never do that, even if it takes you a little while to work up to it (other than stuff that you do en masse during orientation). Chicago is a great city, it reminds me why cities are so cool. If you’ve never lived in one before, chances are that, after some adjustment, it will be at least a decade before you want to live somewhere other than a big city again.