Social life at U Chicago? Any place for a non-nerd?

<p>CountingDown, notice the “most of” phrase. Clearly not every football player is the same, and especially at a place like Chicago, there are going to be plenty of “Chicago-type” players on the team. It’s not like anyone is saying that none of the football players have the academic merit to be at Chicago.</p>

<p>To be more specific, I had originally asked him (and one of his female friends who was hanging out with us at the time) what they didn’t like Chicago. Their responses agreed:</p>

<ol>
<li>The weather in the winter</li>
<li>The weather in the winter</li>
<li>How every now and then everyone seems like a pretentious know-it-all (however, at other times it’s very nice that there are other people who actually understand what you’re talking about)</li>
<li>How most of the football players and frat guys were pretty toolish</li>
</ol>

<p>Anyway, at any school with 5,000 undergrads, there are bound to be people of all sorts. This includes tools and “elitists.”</p>