So... we all like UChicago....

gianscolere1
Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:47:24 +0000

I just knew it was the right school for me when I visited. I visited over 10 times, and I fell more and more in love after each visit. Plus, my three favorite teachers happen to be alumni… I hadn’t known about their Chicago connection when I decided that they were my favorite teachers. They were just different, in a good way of course, from any teacher I’d come across in my life. Also, I’m a hardcore academic, and by hardcore, I mean HARD CORE. I worked on a project so much at one time that my state of consciousness shifted. It has lasted for 5 months now (I seriously thought I was developing schizophrenia, but I’m not). I devoted several hundred hours to this project, at the risk of lowering my GPA because the project was not a requirement, not for a grade. I’ve researched intensively every year since 6th grade. Research pretty much consumed most of the time I could’ve spent bolstering my high school GPA. I specialize in the history of Chicago (the city, not necessarily the University).