{"id":5999,"date":"2023-03-06T17:37:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T23:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=5999"},"modified":"2025-04-13T19:38:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:38:32","slug":"meet-frank-uchicagos-first-international-student-from-vatican-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/06\/meet-frank-uchicagos-first-international-student-from-vatican-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Frank, UChicago&#8217;s First International Student from Vatican City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HYDE PARK \u2014 The University of Chicago has accepted its first international student from Vatican City, a short man known only as Frank. With Frank\u2019s admission, the University announced, the admissions office has now accepted at least one student from every country on Earth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frank, dressed in all white and sporting a delightfully eccentric hat, reports being \u201cborn\u201d in 2003 but \u201cdoesn\u2019t feel a day over 60,\u201d\u00a0 and apparently went to a Swiss boarding school before attending UChicago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe two places have a lot in common,\u201d Frank said, when asked if he felt homesick at UChicago. \u201cI\u2019m from Argentina \u2014 er \u2014 Vatican City, I mean, and you won\u2019t believe this but UChicago has destabilized a surprising number of sovereign countries, almost as many as the Church, so in a way, it feels like home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frank cited the University\u2019s rigorous Core Curriculum as a primary reason for his decision: \u201cI was a little annoyed that they don\u2019t make us read the great books in the original Latin.\u201d He plans to take HUM, SOSC, and CIV simultaneously his first year as well as \u201cevery extra SOSC sequence possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When asked what he was most excited to do at UChicago, Frank said, \u201cproselytizing even more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank, dressed in all white and sporting a delightfully eccentric hat, reports being \u201cborn\u201d in 2003 but \u201cdoesn\u2019t feel a day over 60.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":6000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5999","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\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6001,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5999\/revisions\/6001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}