The Major Activities Board + LUDACRIS — Summer Breeze — May 19, 2012

“On the day of Summer Breeze, all MAB Board members are busy from sunrise to sunrise. Last year, they began setting up the equipment in the morning, and finished taking it down around 2 a.m. The Board is also responsible for managing all aspects of the performance: in addition to setting up the equipment and taking it down, they transport the artists, and make sure the show runs smoothly.”

Read all about what it was like behind the scenes here. 

Cover Photos

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Thesis Statement

You know what’s cool? Huffington Post College are going to start publishing annotated versions of students’ thesis projects in May. If your BA goes up, you will benefit from having your work on a specially-designed page on one of the most popular websites on the internet, and get to keep the publishing rights. It marks the beginning of Huff Post’s movement to share and expand the knowledge that students have acquired at University.

Interested? Email college@huffingtonpost.com with your thesis abstract (limited to 1,000 words), and include a head-shot with a two-sentence biography. 

(Photo: UChicago students explore the Logan center)

Punny. Overheard at UChicago. 

Can’t wait until you come to our office or receive something from us in the mail? You may now download almost all of our brochures— including brochures specific to different majors or minor programs— as PDFs on our website. Click here to view all of our options. 

UChicago’s Fight Song

Thank you to Rongchen Z. for sending us to this piano arrangement of “Wave The Flag,” our official fight song #bleedmaroon

Chi #home

Past UChicago Essay Questions

University of Chicago alumna and renowned author/critic Susan Sontag said, “The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.” We all have heard serious questions, absurd questions, and seriously absurd questions, some of which cannot be answered without obliterating the very question. Destroy a question with your answer.
Inspired by Aleksandra Ciric, Oyster Bay High School, Oyster Bay, New York (2005-2006)

means “mind that does not stick.”

—Zen Master Shoitsu (1202–80)
(2005–2006)

If you could balance on a tightrope, over what landscape would you walk? (No net.)
Inspired by Emma Ross, a graduate of West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, Plainsboro, NJ (2003–2004)

How do you feel about Wednesday?
Inspired by Maximilian Pascual Ortega, a graduate of Maine Township High School South, Park Ridge, IL (2002–2003)

Creative writing class. 

Maclean

Maclean is located in the heart of Hyde Park, just a block from Ratner. The 100 students who hang out in six huge communal areas (game room, dining room, kitchen, TV room, solarium and assembly room) also have space to themselves - the dorm is mostly singles. With poetic, artistic and funny quotes scrawled all over the walls, Maclean draws those with a love for both privacy and community - and an appreciation for a home just a few minutes from campus. 

Durmstrang

A five-minute walk to Pierce dining commons and traditions like a quarterly BBQ, this dorm is eclectic, diverse and tight-knit. Like Dumbledore says, its also home to “our friends from the North” – but they don’t practice the dark arts, unless you mean the dark art of fun!

Overheard at UChicago. 

Movie Night on Bartlett Quad

It happens. We like it. 

“If you make it down to the University of Chicago and you’re looking for a bite to eat or a cappuccino – head to the basement of Swift Hall – to the Divinity School Coffee Shop. They serve awesome box lunches from local ethnic restaurants and brew up great espresso drinks. Plus, you’ll get to take in the sites of one of the beautiful limestone buildings that comprise the majority of the original quad. I snapped this photograph of the outside of Swift in late October while almost all the leaves had dropped from the trees lining the entrance. The branches of this tree remind me of the whomping willow from Harry Potter.”

Justin Kern. 

Today, we say: Engage your Passion. 

South

South is the newest dorm on campus, a glass-lined treasure trove of light-filled rooms, multi-level houses and grassy inner courtyards. It’s just across the Midway from the main quads (by the Law School), and shares its dining hall with Burton-Judson. There’s a buzzing social atmosphere inside the hallways - they have a big house-lounge culture, and also also also a snack mart in the basement. Yum. 

Beauxbatons French Academy

New and shiny, blue and silver, glassy and pretty. Kind of like France? Except this isn’t just a place for girls like Beauxbatons, and they don’t run around their gorgeous dining hall like they’re skipping. The food’s good too.