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[quote=Anonymous]I went there, so that's my experience. I wouldn't trade my four years there for four years anywhere else. I loved my classes, made lifelong friends, and had a blast. The "everyone is so miserable" thing always felt tongue in cheek to me, but I wasn't in sciences or econ. The humanities people who I knew were all very happy. I actually really liked the quarter system because it gave me a chance to take more different classes.

I lived off-campus for my third and fourth years, but right in Hyde Park. I only knew one person who lived outside Hyde Park, but his story was eccentric (he was simultaneously enrolled at both the University of Chicago AND the University of Illinois at Chicago). I also knew people who stayed in the dorms longer, which might have been me if I hadn't made the right friends my first two years.

There's crime in Hyde Park and I knew a few other students/adult coworkers at the library who got mugged, but I mostly felt safe and I was never a crime victim myself.

It's cold in the winter, but I was coming from the South and actively wanted that, so I was very happy. If you're strongly prone to seasonal depression, I guess be aware of that, but I wasn't. I was also coming from a place where most kids went in-state to non-selective public colleges, so I was actually really pleased by the marketing back in the day; otherwise I doubt I'd have heard of it.[/quote]

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