University of Chicago Top Questions

Fun comes to die, ugly chicks, intense academics

That we are not social, awkward work all the time and are incapable of having a healthy conversation. In some capacity all of these stereotypes are true.

The school is purely focused on academics and lacks social life. Students are very strange and nerdy. The school is known for it's academic rigor.

We're considered a complete nerd school without any social life.

that we're quirky, weird, uppity, and don't know how to have fun. I must say that 75{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the people that go here are that way. What I have learned is that you have to seek out the type of people you normally hang with and hope that the process doesn't take too long.

Geeky, bookish, quirky, socially awkward....

nerdy, brilliant, intellectual, academic, loners, socially inept, self-interested, esoteric interests, theory-oriented, spacy, apolitical, hard-working, don't have fun, passionate.

A big stereotype is that we are a bunch of nerds with no lives. Everyone calls it "where fun comes to die." Another related stereotype is that we're all really socially awkward and will either die bachelors or marry a fellow UChicago student.

Well, there's the old adage, "UChicago: Where Fun Comes To Die." That pretty much sums up the stereotypes. People think that everyone here is super smart, studies all the time, and is totally reclusive.

Nerdy, funny, hardworking, obsessive, nitpicky, dorky, having no life.