<p>To objective person:</p>
<p>the inferiority complex is all in your head, and applies to you, and perhaps a few other like you that were similarly disenfranchised when you went to U Chicago. No matter where one goes, one can always find this group. I see that about 14% of current Harvard students regret their school choice. Are you going to go rant and rave about how horrible Harvard is? Columbia does seem may better, while 89% of U Chicago students are happy with their choice. </p>
<p>Even if there may have been more who were like you in the past, what does it matter now to the current generation of students and prospective students. U Chicago is rocking at all rankings: overall excellence, student satisfaction, etc. Its reputation among the lay public is rapidly rising. Why should YOUR horrible personal experience from a bygone era be taken as a definitive statement about where the school is and its student body is heading toward? </p>
<p>I have the feeling that you would not have been happy no matter where you had gone. It takes both the personality of the individual and the environment to create this kind of lasting bitterness. So, the environment was less nurturing than to your liking, but it probably also was your own unique personality to create this level of venom that lasts YEARS after the actual experience. People with truly life altering bad experience move on and find productive outlet for their energy. You, on the other hand, are stuck, developmentally speaking, because you attended one of the top universities in the world by any objective standard, and did not have a good experience. Don’t expect the rest of the world to be highly sympathetic toward you. </p>
<p>I am not dismissing ALL of your concerns. If you provide a balanced, well reasoned concern, we could have a discourse here. What I am fed up with this never ending whining, blaming everything on everything/everyone else, and never taking any personal responsibility for your experience. You could have and should have transferred if it had been so bad. Why didn’t you? I think I speak for a majority of posters on this board, when I say we are sick and tired of you, NOT because you criticize U Chicago (it’s a fair game), but because of this incessant whining and emotional diarrhea of negativity and venom that does not do anything or add anything other than it seems to serve some twisted emotional needs of yours.</p>
<p>You should move on with your life. The fact that you are so hung up on your bad college experience years after you graduated and spend this amount of negative energy and time spewing venom is very, very sad - normal, halfway well adjusted people go on to look for positive things in their life even if there are some bad experience in the past. Your personal growth is arrested at the mental age of 18-22. Move on. Step outside of the terrible mental loop of this period of your life. Go and live a little. Have a productive life.</p>