We know just what you mean. Wait, what? That’s coercion!

Awww, Thank you, Xinlei.

Found on a Trash Can But Poetry isn’t Garbage. 

Disseminate!!! Think about this. Someone wrote this and tossed it but secretly hoped that it would be found by someone. I doubt they thought it would make it onto Tumblr and be viewed by 3000 followers. How marvelous would it be if he/she saw it? So, Disseminate minions of Admissions. Disseminate. 

D’awwwwwww!

Happens more times that we can count. 

We didn’t know #IJS was a thing. We do now. 

No guarantees but let’s just say that everyone loves helping people realize their desires, including us over here in Admissions.

The Arts Dept. is getting it right!!!

Awww thanks, Paola. 

Thanks Maia! That time of year is certainly approaching and it’s magical. 

Austan Goolsbee

Four years ago Goolsbee was the senior economic advisor to the Obama campaign. And after that succeeded he served as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors. Now, he’s the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at UChicago’s Booth School of Business. Goolsbee has been on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart enough times that his coolness factor is unquestionable. And his twitter can get pretty rowdy and witty if you’re into the whole politics thing. Here he is teaching. 

(Photo by Jason Smith)

Admissions Office here. Are we doing this whole mailing thing right?

There’s been a huge response to the letter we sent out earlier this week. We thought we’d share it with you. Big thank you to Maaz F. for uploading it to his twitter. 

Update: even more buzz! The Chicagoist  notes: “O.K., we will never (for now) call the University Of Chicago a stodgy, uppity institution again.”

 I Can Haz T-Shirt?

If you are a high school senior and would like us to send you a t-shirt then go ahead and fill out this form. Seeing your faces around sometime in the future is the reason we work in Admissions. 

Here are the shirts we sent out that some of you have instagrammed and uploaded to Twitter. If you want to see more of what people had to say then just click this link. Thank you! We’re thrilled by the responses we’ve received. 

Good question. There are many UChicago related twitters, who tweet often: ViewChicago (the Admissions Office), PSAC (current students), UChicago, and my personal favorite…UChiNomGo…where you can track food trucks all over Hyde Park. Enjoy! 

Beautiful maps of Twitter and Flickr usage in North America and Europe. The blue dots represent Tweets, and the orange represent uploads to Flickr – the white ones represent both.