<p>@kafkadream: I don’t think it’s fair to suggest that everybody at UChi is enlightened to the nth degree and never falls victim to social pettiness, but yes, in general the school is too big and people are more alike (in that they all kinda like books and ideas and school and such) than different (that they might have outwardly different personalities, backgrounds, ideological orientations). </p>
<p>However, I did overhear some sorority-specific gossip the other day, the kind of gossip that one imagines exists everywhere at every school… I think what’s unusual is that it took me over three years to overhear that kind of stuff.</p>