<p>I finally had a chance to visit Uof C and its surrounding area at the convocation. For a New Yorker that had been held under the gun point in Brooklyn Navy Yard and have to visit Harlem every so often, the surrounding area of UOC is pretty “normal” and lame to me. I drove down the S Cottage Grove to the 86th street ? Target to buy stuff and went to the Federal Dollar store in the “danger zone” to get hardware etc… Nothing special to me! I am fine with the college, its an Urban University, just like Columbia, JHU or UPenn, nothing special, don’t worry about it.</p>