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[quote=Anonymous]Are you American? Is she? Your post reads like you're not and uses terminology that is more British, so I wonder if that's part of the issue.

Anyway... I think some of her gripes about Chicago aren't misplaced, but some of them definitely are. Maybe she has a TA that doesn't speak English well? Chicago has famously good profs (definitely not useless in their disciplines) & it's pretty unlikely that they don't speak English well... but I've heard about this problem with grad students in math/science disciplines before (not at Chicago), so wondering if that could be the problem? If so, it will probably improve as she gets older and takes fewer large lectures w/ TAs and more seminars with professors.

That said, the isolated location in the Midwest comment makes it sound like maybe she's actually missing her friends who are having what she perceives to be better experiences and/or visiting each other. You say it wasn't her first choice and I wonder if this is more peer envy than anything else.

I also don't really understand the anti-staff comments (how much University staff does a Freshman encounter) which sound mostly entitled/obnoxious. I'm also curious what she thinks a "serious" university operates like... and this gets me back to the is she foreign question.[/quote]

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