{"id":6417,"date":"2023-11-16T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6417"},"modified":"2023-11-12T20:18:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T02:18:03","slug":"op-ed-i-was-let-down-by-uchicagos-frivolous-academic-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/16\/op-ed-i-was-let-down-by-uchicagos-frivolous-academic-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: I Was Let Down By UChicago\u2019s Frivolous Academic Attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I went to Fiji, took five shots, stumbled onto the dance floor, tied my feet to a length of rope, and bungee-jumped down the side of the building. Suffice to say, I\u2019m Frustrated boy next to chalk board.&#8221; width=&#8221;300&#8243; height=&#8221;200&#8243; class=&#8221;alignnone size-medium wp-image-6419&#8243; \/>incredibly dissatisfied with the lack of academically minded people on campus. Just two days<br \/>\nago, I heard someone laughing at the Reg, and upon asking I discovered that they were BizCon. I didn\u2019t even know they were allowed indoors. <\/p>\n<p>But really, I came to UChicago for its academic rigor, its coldness, and its complete lack of fun. I am appalled to discover that these college students actually have lives. How dare they. As a triple math, economics, and computer science major, who was forced to go to DU and dance the cotton-eye joe after drinking roughly my professor\u2019s weight in Trulys, I simply feel that we must hold ourselves to a higher academic standard. And, if UChicago cannot reach the rigor that I desire, goddammit I will transfer out. I would love to go to CalTech and stay indoors all day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I went to Fiji, took five shots, stumbled onto the dance floor, tied my feet to a length of rope, and bungee-jumped down the side of the building. Suffice to say, I\u2019m Frustrated boy next to chalk board.&#8221; width=&#8221;300&#8243; height=&#8221;200&#8243; class=&#8221;alignnone size-medium wp-image-6419&#8243; \/>incredibly dissatisfied with the lack of academically minded people on campus. Just two days ago, I heard someone laughing at the Reg, and upon asking I discovered that they were BizCon. I didn\u2019t even know they were allowed indoors. But really, I came to UChicago for its academic rigor, its coldness, and its complete lack of fun. I am appalled to discover that these college students actually have lives. How dare they. As a triple math, economics, and computer science major, who was forced to go to DU and dance the cotton-eye joe after drinking roughly my professor\u2019s weight in Trulys, I simply feel that we must hold ourselves to a higher academic standard. And, if UChicago cannot reach the rigor that I desire, goddammit I will transfer out. I would love to go to CalTech and stay indoors all day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":514,"featured_media":6419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6417","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\/6417","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\/514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6425,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417\/revisions\/6425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}