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I\u2019m so tired of people asking me about UIC. <\/p>\n
As college students, you’ll understand my struggle. As if it isn\u2019t enough that wehave to have the same conversation over and over. Where do we go to school? What do we want to study? How do we like it there? Oh brother. You know the drill. On top of all that, whenever I launch into this conversation, I know exactly how it\u2019s going to go. For instance, I\u2019ll be with a retail associate, trying on dickies, and he\u2019ll ask \u201cSo are you a college student?\u201d I\u2019ll say my part, and he\u2019ll say \u201cOh you\u2019re going to UIC, The University of Illinois at Chicago?\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
University of Illinois at Chicago? UIC? YES. YOU GOT IT. Golly. Over and over, people correctly identifying the school I go to when I refer to it by its abbreviated name. It gets old, am I right? You understand. And it\u2019s not just friends and family; I hear the same thing from my frozen yogurt vendor and my caddy. I say, I\u2019m going to UIC, and they say, “Oh, is that University of Illinois at Chicago?” And I say, “yes.”<\/p>\n
When I was choosing schools, I didn\u2019t realize what a pain this would be, but looking back now, I see there were clues. When I did an online search for \u2018University of Illinois at Chicago,\u2019 the first hit on the list was UIC.edu. And when I was accepted, I received a brochure and map in the mail, and the map depicted the exact location of UIC\u2019s campus, with a large \u2018UIC\u2019 logo marking all of UIC\u2019s buildings. Puhleaze! <\/p>\n
Sometimes it\u2019s worse. The other day I\u2019m stopping the garbage collector from taking my lawn chairs, and he asks me \u201cDo you go to a University? In Chicago? Is that UIC?\u201d This is especially infuriating. Because I have to explain: \u201cYes, I go to UIC, but that\u2019s not what that initialism means.\u201d Half correct, but one hundred percent annoying. <\/p>\n
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest. I\u2019m excited to be on campus with other people who are as frustrated as I am. This is gonna be a great education! Oh. Wait. Oh, geez, this is embarrassing. This is Hyde Park? U of C? My bad. Totally my bad. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By UIC Student Aug. 2, 2013 I\u2019m so tired of people asking me about UIC. As college students, you’ll understand my struggle. As if it isn\u2019t enough that wehave to have the same conversation over and over. Where do we go to school? What do we want to study? How do we like it there? Oh brother. You know the drill. On top of all that, whenever I launch into this conversation, I know exactly how it\u2019s going to go. For instance, I\u2019ll be with a retail associate, trying on dickies, and he\u2019ll ask \u201cSo are you a college student?\u201d I\u2019ll say my part, and he\u2019ll say \u201cOh you\u2019re going to UIC, The University of Illinois at Chicago?\u201d University of Illinois at Chicago? UIC? YES. YOU GOT IT. Golly. Over and over, people correctly identifying the school I go to when I refer to it by its abbreviated name. It gets old, am I right? You understand. And it\u2019s not just friends and family; I hear the same thing from my frozen yogurt vendor and my caddy. I say, I\u2019m going to UIC, and they say, “Oh, is that University of Illinois at Chicago?” And I say, “yes.” When I was choosing schools, I didn\u2019t realize what a pain this would be, but looking back now, I see there were clues. When I did an online search for \u2018University of Illinois at Chicago,\u2019 the first hit on the list was UIC.edu. And when I was accepted, I received a brochure and map in the mail, and the map depicted the exact location of UIC\u2019s campus, with a large \u2018UIC\u2019 logo marking all of UIC\u2019s buildings. Puhleaze! Sometimes it\u2019s worse. The other day I\u2019m stopping the garbage collector from taking my lawn chairs, and he asks me \u201cDo you go to a University? In Chicago? Is that UIC?\u201d This is especially infuriating. Because I have to explain: \u201cYes, I go to UIC, but that\u2019s not what that initialism means.\u201d Half correct, but one hundred percent annoying. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest. I\u2019m excited to be on campus with other people who are as frustrated as I am. This is gonna be a great education! Oh. Wait. Oh, geez, this is embarrassing. This is Hyde Park? U of C? My bad. Totally my bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}