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GePap
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of the Big Apple
Nov 2001
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If chicago offered you 15k then they must want you, cause they are cheap-asses.
OK. When it comes to theoretical mathematics Chicago is top notch. It is also excellent for the physical sciences like Physics and Chemistry,.especially since they have connections at Fermi and so forth. And the economics and sociology department are very good, and in Chicaog they like to use math in Social sciences. But the fact is that you will have to take the core, which means your first year a lot of your classes will have nothing to do with Math. The things about the core is that it allows you to explore more what it is you really want to do, since it forces you to study some areas you otherwise would have ignored.
I never looked at tufts math department, so lets hope some tuft graduate is here.
Chicago has a reputation for burning people out: the quarter system means that you have 11 weeks to learn a class which menas an accelerated pace. I know Tufts uses the more common semester system.
As for social life: Chicago has a reputation for terrible social life. It hasd been changing a lot lately since the University has taken steps to fix it, but it is still nothing close to a party shool. Now, they do treat people like adults: that means that you get a lot of freedom about you social activities, but also that if you need help, you have to go out and get it cause they will not help you otherwise. chicago is a good city, but it is very spread out, so you would have to communte to the more "fun" neighborhoods of the city, and it would certainly take more time than in Boston, specially since Boston has so many universities and colleges there while Chicago is in no way a college city.
Now, my guess is that chicaog offers better campus dorms than Tufts. I do know that Chicaog has smoe very roomy dorms and some very nromal sized dorms. But living in housing can be costly cuase they make you have board with a room. now, the arae around has lots of places ot live poast freshman year, and I would say 1200 a month for an appartment, usuallty paid by several people (4) is common if you want to live out of dorms. I am not sure about similar living expenses in Boston. you could always join a frat at eihtr place. I nevr even went to a frat party, so i am not the person to ask.
as for Other facilities: chicago Libraries are some of the best in the country in tersm of what they have, but they are underfunded so books move slowly in the system (I should know, i worked there). They are building new Gym facilities which look great. The campus is pretty in summer and spring and not too spread out. Tufts also has a nice campus, a bit more spread out than Chicago's. tufts is sort of on the edges of the city (last stop on the red line) so the immidate arae around is not much, but it does not take too much time to get to downtown and Cambridge. I don;t hink their libraries are as good, and I did not see their gym facilities.
as for costs: chicago is more expensive than Tufts, though the city of chicago is about as expensive as Boston. As I said, a 15k grant is very nice for them: chicaog ussually helps people pay with loans. I can say that it is likely that the grant size will go down in the coming years, with more of the burden been shifted to loans.
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Albert Speer
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Puerile Polemic
Mar 1999
time: 00:27
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Little Paul Will-Chess-Key is finally growing up...
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GePap
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of the Big Apple
Nov 2001
time: 23:27
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Well, I studied PolSci, and right now I am in Limbo, since the plans I had made fell through.
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but I like ideas more than something that actually does something |
That might as well be the Alma matter of Chicago. It is a very "nerdy" school. For example. the school cheer goes:
Thucidedes, themystecles (no idea about spelling..),
the Pelloponnesian war
X squared, Y squared, H2SO4
Who for, what for,
what the hell are we cheering for?
Go Maroons.. (our wonderful school color..bleh)
It sounds a silly as it is...
I don;t know about busy work. Math orientend classes give out problem sets regularly and hard-core science classes have long labs to do. most wiritng classes ask you to write only a couple of essays for the whole class, but hey also ask you to read large amounts. One quarter, I spent 300 on books, while the most expensive book I bought was $30 bucks.
I will not play it down..some people do crack under the pressure they put on themselves, and even those that have no problems do spend a lot of time working, specially at Math and science.
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Albert Speer
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Puerile Polemic
Mar 1999
time: 00:27
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It's Themistocles...
honestly, what do they teach you in your fancy suburban private schools and white colleges?
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Albert Speer
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Puerile Polemic
Mar 1999
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It's starting to irk me that if i was rich and went to a fancy private school, i could probably be going to Yale or something... but no, I got to go to philly public school. If I can be this learned off public school, imagine if i got the same oppurtunities yall got
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Albert Speer
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Puerile Polemic
Mar 1999
time: 00:27
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GePap:
I was accepted by Temple but the costs are prohibitive. I'm trying to get financial aide but I do not have access to my parent's tax forms. I'm trying to work something out
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