<p>What I thought was Chicago-esque about her turning the 3-paragraph assignment into a 5-page analysis was that she was doing it for the sheer joy of it, not because it would make any difference in her grade or because she’s into schoolwork. The analysis she did of the poem by Yeats was so interesting and examined the piece not only as a literary work, but from a historical and political perspective. To me, she made it into much more of an intellectual exercise than the academic one that was required of her…that’s what struck me as “so Chicago”.</p>