College Choices

[Giant_Squid]

Let's see...first, he tries to define justice...the whole premise of which is flawed...you can't define a word through philosophy, because definitions are just going to be tautologies anyway. Then he says we can define justice by forming a just city, which is obviously bunk because you have to know what justice is before you can make a city that's got it. Then it turns out that his just city is basically ancient 1984 (I wouldn't be surprised if Orwell looked at Plato for inspiration, although I certainly haven't read up on the matter - his proles, outer party, and inner party are eerily similar to workers, auxilliaries, and guardians, and the Noble Lie is pretty evident too) Then he arbitrarily concludes that the justness of this city (and this city is just because Plato randomly says it is) is due to some weirdness he imposed on it, and therefore we should all impose weirdness on ourselves and be just. Oh, and the most valuable pursuit in life is philosophy which is defined as "having the exact same opinions Plato has"...meh...the guy could become an Objectivist with that attitude...okay, I'm done now.

[Kramerman]

giant squid.... meh

Your not so great anymore... they have Colossal Squid now

[Giant_Squid]

Oh, you think those are impressive, just wait until we roll out the Gargantuan-Class with the tentacle-mounted lasers, maximum velocity of up to 50 knots, and driver AND passenger airbags! It will revolutionize molluskry, I say!

[Lawrence of Arabia]

I've already done Calc I and Calc II, so I just need a 6 on my IB finals to get out of those classes. I have also done the IB economics program higher level (Micro, Business, Macro, Trade, and deveoplement) and just need a 6 on that IB final to get out of econ 201, and 202.

[monolith94]

Giant S - people have seemed to acclimate to his horrible username.
You'd think that he'd want a username of a more populist architect, rather than someone who built monuments for a government which devestated the lives of the WORKING PEOPLE.
I'd reccomend someone Finnish.

I'd also like to voice my opinion that although Socrates is wrong about some stuff, he is a damn cool guy.

[Q Classic]

Just visit the campus at Scavenger Hunt time...
my second year two guys built a small reactor that actually did create a miniscule amount of plutonium, so their house could claim that they built a breeder reactor. They had all the stuff in thier room....

they did it in my dorm. burton-judson courts, in matthews house.
two reactors were actually under construction for scavhunt, as well.

http://scavhunt1.uchicago.edu/

you're coming for the prospie weekend? joy of joys. i'll be here for that.

oh and then there's Chicago's core curriculum FROM HELL.

not so bad.

you can do 2-2-2 quarters of hume, fine art, and civ, or 3-2-1 of hume, civ and fine art, or 2-3-1 of hume, civ, and art.
then there's some physical sciences req, and a biosci req. and then 3 quarters of soc.
you can test out of everything except the hume, fine art, civ, and soc.
i myself never had to take any math or science classes; and i only have to take two quarters of civ and i'll be done with my core-- and i'm in my second year. most of my core was done in my first year.

bio any chance i could place out of it with my 5 on the ap bio exam?

if you don't plan on majoring in bio, yes. the science aps count, and the math aps count, but you still have to take a math placement exam.
all of your other non-language aps go to elective credit. language aps are put up against your language placement tests. whichever one is better they'll take.

what sucks here is you'll have to take a physical education placement test as well. DON'T HOLD THE PULSE READER TIGHTLY!!!!! i cannot emphasize that enough.

anyway, if you want to visit me here, come by. i'm 4-6029 on the campus phones, and i live in the burton-judson dorm.

[GePap]

BJ is full of weirdos..never go in there....

[Q Classic]

better BJ than stony. thems are freaks.

and anybody in pierce? may as well sleep in a coffin. maxpav is an eyesore, and i pity the fool who lives there.

[GePap]

SHORELAND, SHORELAND, SHORELAND!

It might be a mile away, and a pain in the ass in Winter, and you always have to get up early, but the rooms are worth it.

[Q Classic]

yes, and you get to stay during breaks.

although i don't know if i'd trade my single for that convenience.

[GePap]

Well, singles in Shoreland are better still, and with so many people moving out, not so rare.

I had one by second year.

[Q Classic]

hm... perhaps. although i find my walk across the midway painful enough during winter.

which dining hall did you usually go to from shoreland? bj or pierce?

[GePap]

BJ, which is why i know BJ is full of weirdos......

I liked BJ most of all, even more than the new Barlett one. Specially Ola and the lady that made the Ommeletes for breakfast.

[Caesar the Great]

ooo insider tips

*taking notes*

...anything else i should know before making commitments?

housing? courses? or otherwise?

[Q Classic]

Ola? she's awesome. she takes a long time, but it's always the perfect scoop.

housing is nice here. you send in your preferences and all of what you want/need, and they'll do their damndest to make 'em work. singles aren't that hard to come by, but they tend to be primarily in snell-hitchcock (the most conveniently located dorm) and in burton-judson; pierce is now non-smoking, but it has a kitchen; maxpav is the newest and has the most amenities; so on and so forth. they'll send you a whole book about it soon, if you accept.

courses by and large aren't bad. for hume, i did media aesthetics, which was only a 2yr old class when i took it... i'd suggest against it, though, since it's hit or miss with the profs who run it.
soc is a toss-up. i loved my power identity resistance class, but in all of them you end up reading many of the same books.

labs i hear stink. i never took 'em, so it don't matter to me.