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Where Fun Comes to Dance

Fourth-year student Neeti Jain reflects on her involvement with dance while a UChicago student and the various RSOs on campus that exposed her to a world of different dance styles. Read more...

The Best Type of Trek

Third-year student Shana Mirek describes treks, which are programs that UChicago students take through the Career Advancement office in order to a wide number of career paths that lie ahead of them. Read more...

The Rewards of Research

Fourth-year student Emily Polner writes about the rewards of researching different neighborhoods in Chicago, an exercise she had to carry out for an Urban Sociology course during her second year. Read more...

UChicago has Sports Teams ?!?

Second-year student and varsity athlete Kaitlin Price describes a day during preseason workouts in an effort to confirm that, yes, UChicago does in fact have sports teams. Read more...

Picasso in a Petri Dish

Fourth-year student Neeti Jain reflects on her interests and how a dilemma between pursuing the social or hard sciences helped her see the many ways in which the two realms actually blend into one another. Read more...