<p>Ultimately, I widened my horizons, explored and questioned the truths forming our perception of the world, discovered the transforming capabilities of thoughts, immersed myself in a panorama of academic discovery and delving, conversed within and between disciplines about issues linking us all as humans, got personal with the fundamental structure of ideas that forms our society, better understood myself as well as my place in the universe, and experienced beautiful depth of thinking as opposed to mindless bredth.</p>
<p>The University of Chicago has both kindled and engaged every part of who I am: mentally, personally, professionally, and spiritually. I go through my life with bigger eyes as well as the ability to understand and express all that I have seen in new ways.</p>
<p>This isn’t just your typical liberal arts education. You ask questions about yourself, your society, and the world. You connect with the past and present and create intellectual and creative potential for the future. You really experience the life of the mind. (And I don’t mean life of the mind in a way that only Uchicago owns. I just think it is especially present at the University of Chicago.)</p>
<p>And to bounce off the post above, some students that I know do agree that the class size is significantly larger than those of the past. 1400-1500 now I believe. But all of them say that they still feel the nature of a small school with intimate classes and faculty relationships. But now there is a more vibrant social atmosphere with the arrival of more students. I see it as a nice balance between tiny and raucous.</p>