University of Chicago Top Questions

Super dorky. Obsessed with their own intellectualism. Totally lacking in social skills. Quirky. Pretentious Indie kids who all tend to be Indie in the same direction.

nerdy, bad in social settings

Nerdy, anti-social, unattractive.

Extremely nerdy and academia-oriented; the saying is, "That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?" Active proponents of ivory-tower elitism. Limited social skills.

That we are all nerds and do nothing except study and are antisocial and weird

That we're over-evolved on the smart scale, but utterly under-evolved on the social skills scale. And we do nothing but study.

atni-social nerdly intelligent eccentric diverse strange philosophizing

Just look at our t-shirts: "where fun comes to die", "where the only thing that goes down on you is your GPA", "if I wanted an A I would have gone to Harvard". Basically, that we're all overly obsessed academics without any social skills whatsoever-a haven for the weird, the strange, and the unclassifiable. You know the kid who can't dress, answers every question in class, and screws up the curve? Yeah, that's EVERYONE at this school.

That they are unsociable nerds that take themselves too seriously.

Stereotypes include: being too nerdy for fun, being confined to rooms/the dorm or apartment/the library/Hyde Park, unfashionable, social awkwardness, and general unattractiveness.

We never have fun. We stare at the ground when we walk and won't look at people. We are ugly. They never leave the library or their rooms.

i) That the students are socially inept. ii) That UChicago is an intellectual haven. iii) That the academics are amazing. iv) That life in UChicago is dull, dreary and no fun. v) That it is a hard school - hard on grading and hard on work.

UChicago students are all albino, smelly, unhygienic, scav hunt-loving weirdos who only talk about kant and particle physics and despise those who take classes that prepare them for the real world. UChicago students are ugly.

students don't have fun

Eternally engaged in the life of the mind

They're kind of dorky and they spend all of their time studying

Stereotypically we're all extremely smart but extremely awkward people.