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By Claire Holland Aug. 17, 2017 When first year Abby Kincaid first stepped foot on campus, she knew it was home. \u201cIt was like, my whole life I had been too smart for everyone around me, and now all of a sudden, there were people close to my level.\u201d Kincaid was quick to add that she totally wasn\u2019t a That Kid, because what she said in class actually helped everyone else understand the reading. However, like so many other precociously gifted students, she was soon to find that she was wrong. \u201cYou can only go so many classes in a row where literally no one but you has done the reading, before you want to just die. And even if they have done the reading, most of the time they just don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about the way I do.\u201d Kincaid is not alone. Second year Bobby Philips had a similar experience his first year when, halfway through Winter Quarter, he wrote and posted a detailed explanation about his growing disillusionment with the University. Notable excerpts include \u201cI knew UChicago was the place where fun went to die, but never did I expect that the plebeian Nietzsche haters around me would make me want to kill myself\u201d and \u201cI haven\u2019t left the Reg in three days. This is the price I pay to hone my intellect, and people unwilling to pay that toll are beneath me.\u201d When reached for comment about his post, Philips replied, \u201cI was thinking about making it a UChicago Secret \u2013 on the good secret page, of course \u2013 but then I thought, You know what Bobby? You deserve credit for this. If people in SOSC can\u2019t appreciate your brilliant observations, then maybe the wider world will be able to feed the ego machine you\u2019ve lodged at the core of your personality.\u201d University officials have responded to complaints about the lack of truly academic academia by students like Kincaid and Philips. In an official statement on Monday, Dean Ellison announced that intellectual safe spaces were in the process of being reintroduced on campus \u201cfor the sake of truly gifted individuals.\u201d The reasoning behind it, the Dean wrote, was to protect the precious, precious brain cells of the lucky few endowed with the capacity for greater reason from death by atrophy in Core classes. \u201cThis will allow students to thrive in environments created especially for them, letting them become the master race of circle jerkers they were always destined to be. We bow down to you, O Wise Ones, and hope that one day you might impart some of your vast knowledge unto us.\u201d Dean Ellison did not respond to the Dealer\u2019s request for further comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}