<p>I think I’m going to hit neimanmarcus.com. Who wants to join me?</p>
<p>You should just go to the Stanford campus and say, “YOU JUST LOST $200,000, JERK-FACES!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”</p>
<p>I’m totally doing that if I don’t get into UChicago.</p>
<p>(jaykay)</p>
<p>Hahahaha, that is an awesome idea. If I get rejected in RD, I’ll do that. Dude, Chicago is my new top choice.</p>
<p>It’s an amazing school. It’s got this air of intellectualism that I’ve never experienced before. People just come up to you and discuss their ideas about life, politics, and society. It’s amazing. What else can you expect from the college that employs the guy who wrote Freakonomics? I took a class there this past summer, and my parents had to pry me away from the campus with rusty leverage devices…metaphorically, of course.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know, I loved that when I visited. But it was too late…I’d already applied to Stanford SCEA. And Freakonomics is awesomely cool. I’m giving out so many copies of the book this Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa/Festivus/Winter Solstice/(Add your own religion HERE)</p>
<p>Can you believe Steven Levitt is only in his TWENTIES!?!?! And he’s TEACHING ECONOMICS at the University of Chicago!?!?!</p>
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<p>Most Americans in their 20’s don’t even know how to manage their money.</p>
<p>Lol, I loved the intro to his book. Levitt is a future Nobelist. It’s very in keeping with UChi’s economic imperialism. They keep finding new fields to apply econ to. Are you looking at an econ major?</p>
<p>I don’t really know. My parents are definitely pushing for it, but I’m not looking at majors until I find out if I’m in or not. They gave me a course catalogue when I went for my interview, but I haven’t really looked at it. I’m scared to. I haven’t even worn my UChicago shirt since I left the campus. </p>
<p>I definitely have more of an interest in molecular biology, though. </p>
<p>And you? If you get into the Land of Milk, Honey, and Liquid Intellectualism (not to mention some sort of amish-like community on campus), what would you major in?</p>
<p>Heh, Economics. But I really want to go for their Civ Studies sequences. I love the sound of Human Being and Citizen. And the Big Problems. Check out the catalog. It’s freakin’ cool. My favorite course is Kinds of Sophisticated Lawyering. Molecular Bio…I’m more BioChem. Bottom up vs. top down. Do you have a Where God Drinks Coffee? It sounds like your sort of thing.</p>
<p>No, I haven’t even heard of that! But it definitely sounds more interesting than the essay on Angelman’s Syndrome that I have yet to write. </p>
<p>On the UChicago campus, though, there’s a coffee shop that’s called “STAY UP 4 EVER” – it beats Starbucks any day.</p>
<p>Bottom-up sounds too easy for me. I like to make my life complicated and sometimes like to sabatoge myself. (I <3 Huckabees, anyone? It’s required human viewing.) If I stare at a problem long enough, I eventually see the solution. Maybe that only works in Calc, though.</p>
<p>Lol, I have my physics exam tmw 
And they sell the shirts in Swift Hall. The Div School Coffee Shop. Man, I love all the coffeeshops they have on campus.</p>
<p>There’s (almost) literally one on every corner. Did you visit the Seminary Co-Op Book Store while you were at UChicago? It’s the best bookstore I’ve ever visited. It’s like a maze of bookshelves that are absolutely PACKED with books. And I found Thus Spake Zarathustra for $2.50!!! I nearly peed my pants.</p>
<p>AND it’s in the basement of a former church.</p>
<p>Ooh, didn’t get to go there. That’s cool though. To make all this a tad more contemporary, have you read The Six Questions of Socrates?</p>
<p>No, I’m not much into the Greek philosophers. I tremendously respect them and realize that all philosophy is built on their work, but I haven’t yet reached the point where I can actually sit down and read them. All of his questions seem to follow on the same wavelength, though, so how do you ask those questions and attempt to answer them seperately. I don’t know – does he?</p>
<p>Heh, the importance isn’t in the answer. It’s in the thought that goes into. The Six Questions is actually by a man named Christopher Phillips who aims to bring philosophy back into the public eye: <a href=“http://www.philosopher.org%5B/url%5D”>http://www.philosopher.org</a></p>
<p>And going back to bottom-up. I feel that top-down is too easy. But they are both very elegant fields. I love organic chemistry. That and evolutionary biology. I have my very own copy of Gould’s The Structure of Evolutionary Theory</p>
<p>Oh, nevermind. </p>
<p>I just want to get at the point where I can see the HUGE picture that puts all the levels of biology together – evolutionary, molecular, chemical, etc. That’s one of my life goals: to eventually reach a personally satisfactory understanding of the mechanisms of life. I don’t know if I’ll ever reach a personally satisfactory understanding, but it’s something to work towards?</p>
<p>I think you can reach a personally satisfactory understanding, but it will require leaps of faith you can make that won’t satisfy others. But as long as you’re satisfied. How is Chicago’s bio dept.?</p>
<p>Well, anything requires a leap of faith. After all, how can we know what really exists? Is blue really blue – how do we know that blue even exists? It’s all about the Allegory of the Cave. </p>
<p>Any UChicago department is amazing. I took their Research in the Biological Sciences course over the summer, and it was completely amazing. I go to a really large school with…less than competant teachers sometimes, so to go someplace where people can answer my questions was a relief in itself. I really can’t answer that question, honestly. I don’t have much to compare it to except my school.</p>
<p>Lol, yeah, but leaps come in different sizes. And you might be willing to make bigger leaps than some. Or smaller. I don’t know. And yeah, a chicago education is good, end of story. it’s too late now anyway to change stuff.</p>