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By Chase Harrison April 17, 2017 Returning from an eventful prospie weekend, incoming first year Maximilian Rothman of Downer\u2019s Grove, Illinois could not stop gushing to his parents about all of the new friends he made at UChicago. Rothman, who plans on majoring in Math, Econ, and Biology, meticulously narrated all his encounters while intermittently checking Facebook for updates from his new besties. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe how cool everyone was!\u201d he stated. \u201cLike I met this one kid Charlie from this school called Stivesaint in New York or something. I never thought I\u2019d be friends with a slick city kid! Oh, there was also this girl from England! Her accent was so exotic. I can\u2019t believe theirthey’re part of my crew now!\u201d Maximilian continued, \u201cOne night we went to the Med and got milkshakes! I feel like we are gonna do that every night! Then, on Wednesday night, I went to my first college party! It was called Barn Night because it took place in this dusty house. Well, OKok, I didn\u2019t go in the house but I stood outside and there were red cups and security guards and music. It was like the 4th Season of Glee!\u201d His parents, Sheryl and Herb Rothman, listenedsat in disbelief. \u201cMaximilian has never had that many friends before. But he said he sat in the dining hall he immediately bonded with his friends over similar feelings about Nietzsche and Marx. He kept repeating the phrase ‘\u201cLife of the Mind‘\u201d?\u201d Sheryl said. \u201cSounds like a bunch of nerds,\u201d replied Herb to which Sheryl smacked him on shoulder. Maximilian ignored his parents as he continued to spew. \u201cI just keep picturing how awesome our future together is gonna be. Maybe our crew will vacation together in Iceland! Or we\u2019ll all be young professionals in NYC after college. Or we\u2019ll force our kids to be best friends too!\u201d The girl who Maximilian identified as his new best friend, Allie Drauth, shared a contrasting image ofthe same vision for their future., \u201cWait who\u2019s Maximilian?\u201d she askedsaid. \u201cWas he the one who forgot my name like 10 times?\u201d<\/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\/1619"}],"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=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}