{"id":4666,"date":"2021-01-20T17:29:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T23:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=4666"},"modified":"2025-05-01T01:40:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:40:54","slug":"ranking-all-the-friends-i-made-during-autumn-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/20\/ranking-all-the-friends-i-made-during-autumn-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking All the Friends I Made During Autumn Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, this has been a difficult time for first years to make friends. Social gatherings and many activities usually seen as a way to establish connections have either been cancelled or turned into a virtual event. These challenging circumstances make it commendable to create relationships in this unusual school year. In honor of this, I have taken it upon myself to showcase the beauty of friendship by creating a definitive ranking of all the friends I have made.<\/span><\/p>\n

7- My Academic Advisor:<\/b> Friendship is hard to define. However, it is sadly not simply quantified by aggressively crying during a quarterly zoom meeting with your advisor when they ask you, \u201cHow are your classes going?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

6- Robert Fagles\u2019 Translation of<\/b> The Odyssey<\/i><\/b>:<\/b> This book is the inanimate equivalent of every O-Week friendship I did get to have. The University forced me into its proximity during first week, and then I ultimately lose it and never see it again by second week.<\/span><\/p>\n

5- Members of Christian RSOs that Constantly DM me:<\/b> The last time I went to church was when I accidentally threw up in the middle of Sunday school in 2<\/span>nd<\/span> grade. However, I think the Christian RSOs who mass message everyone with \u201cUChicago\u201d in their bio can be considered some sort of friend to me. I know they only want to talk to me so I join their group, but I appreciate their persistence and the fact I never have to text first.<\/span><\/p>\n

4- That One Person from my House that I always see in my floor\u2019s communal bathroom: <\/b>I do not know their name, but I do know that we brush our teeth around the same time which in many ways is all I need to know.<\/span><\/p>\n

3- Emily Wilson\u2019s Translation of T<\/b>he Odyssey<\/i><\/b>:<\/b> If I had to guess the most reasonable number of translations of <\/span>The Odyssey <\/span><\/i>any likable teen should own, I would guess zero. Nevertheless, since arriving at UChicago I have acquired two. This translation is better than Fagles\u2019 because the cover is prettier, and it has a bootleg audiobook free on Youtube. Listening to the voice of a random stranger monologue various words and references I do not know without letting me speak feels like what I imagine every UChicago Tinder date is like. This edition therefore classifies as some sort of vague relationship I have managed to establish during my time on campus.<\/span><\/p>\n

2- Everyone I have ever been in a breakout room with:<\/b> Because of COVID-19, group gatherings are strongly discouraged by the university. Therefore, I consider the various breakout rooms I have been corralled into an essential part of my social life on campus. I may have never had an awkward conversation in the rancid basement of a random fraternity, but I have gotten the opportunity to feign interest in a discussion group about a text I barely read.<\/span><\/p>\n

1- People that have followed me on twitter: <\/b>The older I get the more I realize I am just evolving into the AP Psych textbook example of social media addiction. My little pea brain grows into the size of a deformed pear when someone around my age likes my tweet consisting of 8 words and 13 grammatical errors.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, this has been a difficult time for first years to make friends. Social gatherings and many activities usually seen as a way to establish connections have either been cancelled or turned into a virtual event. These challenging circumstances make it commendable to create relationships in this unusual school year. In honor of this, I have taken it upon myself to showcase the beauty of friendship by creating a definitive ranking of all the friends I have made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":514,"featured_media":4668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666"}],"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\/514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7067,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions\/7067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}