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20 Top 10 Lists for the Class of 2010

  1. Things to eat and drink in Hyde Park
  2. UofC Traditions
  3. Campus Events
  4. Things that your parents think you should do (that actually are a good idea)
  5. Freebies
  6. Places to study
  7. Things to see
  8. Things to avoid
  9. Best Kept Secrets
  10. Coffee Shops
  11. Ways to get out of Hyde Park
  12. Ways to meet people at the U of C
  13. Neighborhoods to Visit in Chicago
  14. Things you should definitely do in Chicago during your college years
  15. Places to eat or drink in Chicago
  16. Places for Pizza
  17. Festivals in the City
  18. Places to see a movie (on campus)
  19. Books you will read before you graduate
  20. Free Wireless Access Points in Chicago

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Things to eat and drink in Hyde Park

  1. Gelato under the Metra Tracks (Istria Café)
  2. Chocolate Croissant at the Med Bakery
  3. Dollar Shake on Wednesdays from the C-Shop
  4. 10-cent wings at the pub (in a couple years)
  5. Chinese Buns (any time of the year sold by any RSO on campus—in front of Cobb)
  6. Coffee at… Div School, Stuart, New GSB, C-Shop, Cobb, Hallowed Grounds
  7. When you really need grease Original House of Pancakes , Valois or Salonica
  8. Thai at Noodles, Thai 55, Siam, the Snail
  9. Fried Chicken at Harold’s
  10. Free dinner at a study break in Hutch

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UofC Traditions

  1. Polar Bear Run
  2. Midnight Breakfast
  3. Scav Hunt
  4. Bagpipes!
  5. Kuviasungnerk and Kangeiko
  6. Fall and Spring Formals http://coup.uchicago.edu, http://kso.uchicago.edu
  7. All Night Dance Party on the Quad
  8. Swim in the lake
  9. Senior Week
  10. Movies on the Quad

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Campus Events

  1. O-Week!
  2. Blues ‘n Ribs
  3. Mardi Gras
  4. Dance Marathon
  5. CPO Events such as Venture to Adventure, Faculty Roundtables & Taking the Next Step
  6. Summer Breeze http://coup.uchicago.edu, http://mab.uchicago.edu
  7. Cultural Shows
  8. FOTA
  9. MAB Concerts
  10. Senior Week!

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Things that your parents think you should do (that actually are a good idea)

  1. Venture to Adventure
  2. Get a (campus) job
  3. Faculty Roundtables
  4. Schedule an appointment at CAPS to go over your resume/interview skills
  5. Taking the Next Step
  6. Attend a career fair
  7. What Matters to Me and Why – faculty brown-bag lunches
  8. Study!!
  9. Receive college honors at CHAA
  10. Graduate

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Freebies

  1. Padfolio for attending Taking the Next Step
  2. O-Folio to keep orientation materials in
  3. T-shirts for volunteering at any number of events
  4. Food from studybreaks at Hutch at 8:30
  5. Food from Midnight Breakfast
  6. Class Mug from Alumni House
  7. Condoms from the SCC
  8. Bouncy balls and playdough from SCRS
  9. Free screenings of not-yet-released movies at Doc
  10. Orientation wallet

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Places to study

  1. The Reg
  2. Crerar
  3. McCormick Tribune Lounge
  4. Hutchinson Commons
  5. On the Quads on the first day of Spring
  6. Harper Library
  7. While walking from your room to your final
  8. At the point
  9. In bed… while not napping
  10. Coffee Shops

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Things to See

  1. Go to Court Theater or University Theater for a show www.courttheatre.org, http://ut.uchicago.edu
  2. See a movie at Doc
  3. Have dinner and then see a Cultural Show
  4. Visit the Robie House, Oriental Institute, Smart Museum of Art, Renaissance Society
  5. An IM game on the Midway
  6. Dean Boyer ride his bike on any given day
  7. Waves in Lake Michigan from the Point
  8. Orchestra/Quartet/Musical performance
  9. The Polar Bear Run
  10. Go to an athletic event

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Things to avoid (but which you will probably do)

  1. Procrastination
  2. Getting lower grades than in high school
  3. Common places to study the Sunday before finals week
  4. The Facebook
  5. Compulsively checking e-mail
  6. Eating at the Dining Halls every meal
  7. Being caught with a coffee pot or halogen lamp in the dorms
  8. Becoming addicted to caffeine
  9. Never leaving Hyde Park
  10. Wandering around alone at 3 am

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Best Kept Secrets

  1. The University of Chicago hosts the largest Scavenger Hunt in the US
  2. The University had the first Heisman Trophy winner, and still has the trophy in Ratner Gym
  3. We host the largest collegiate Model UN in the country
  4. Longest running Collegiate Folk Festival in the country
  5. Longest running Student Run Film Society in the country (Doc Films)
  6. We had the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction where the football field was which is now where a library is
  7. The U of C was a founding member of the big 10
  8. All the original University buildings are connected via underground tunnels
  9. 78 Nobel Laureates have been connected to the University—6 are current faculty members
  10. Yellow was once the school‘s color.

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Coffee Shops

  1. Hallowed Grounds
  2. Div School Café
  3. Cobb Coffee Shop
  4. Classics Café
  5. Gargoyle Café (basement of Stuart)
  6. C-Shop
  7. Ex Libris Café
  8. Barnes & Noble Cafe
  9. Third World Café
  10. Border‘s Café

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Ways to get out of Hyde Park

  1. Find a friend with a car
  2. Find the 173… if it ever comes and you are going downtown on a weekend after 5:30
  3. Take the 6 (or the 55 to the 6)
  4. Take the 55 to the Red Line (or Green Line)
  5. Take a cab (About $20 to get to the loop)
  6. Take the Metra from 55th,56th,57th
  7. Bike/Skateboard/Rollerblade along the lake front
  8. Walk/Run
  9. Maroon Thunder (helicopter)
  10. The 10 & The 2

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Ways to meet people at the U of C

  1. Make fun of “That Kid”
  2. Join an RSO
  3. Be social in your house
  4. Join a study-group
  5. Leave your dorm room/the library
  6. Eat at the dining halls
  7. Go to office hours
  8. Speak up in class
  9. Community service
  10. Visit your Class message boards

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Neighborhoods to Visit in Chicago

  1. Oldtown
  2. Belmont/Boystown
  3. Andersonville
  4. Wicker Park
  5. Bronzeville
  6. Wrigleyville
  7. Greektown
  8. Chinatown
  9. Devon
  10. Pilsen

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Things you should definitely do in Chicago during your college years

  1. Go to a Cubs/Sox game http://cubs.mlb.com, http://whitesox.mlb.com
  2. “Sunbathe” at North Beach
  3. Take in a comedy show at Second City, Improv Olympic, or the Neo-Futurarium
  4. Visit the Signature Lounge in the Hancock
  5. See the animals at Lincoln Park Zoo, one of the last free zoos in the country
  6. See a Concert at Millenium Park
  7. Visit at least one museum- The Field, the Shedd, The Art Institute, the MCA
  8. Eat some authentic Chicago pizza
  9. Get tickets to a taping of Oprah
  10. Visit the Garfield Park Conservatory

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Places to eat in Chicago

  1. Go to Belmont & Eat at Clarks
  2. Tapas at Café Ba-Ba-Reeba
  3. Cheezborger at Billy Goat
  4. Nuevo Leon
  5. Daly‘s
  6. Saganaki at Artopolis, Pegasus, Costas- anywhere in Greektown
  7. Bubble Tea at Joy Yee‘s in Chinatown
  8. Hot Dogs at the Wiener‘s Circle
  9. Ribs at Twin Anchors in Old Town
  10. Tuscany on Taylor Street

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Places for Pizza

  1. Gino‘s East
  2. Giordano‘s
  3. Piece
  4. Connie‘s
  5. Lou Malnati‘s
  6. Home Run Inn
  7. Uno‘s
  8. Palermo‘s Pizza at Red Ivy
  9. D‘agostinos
  10. Edwardo‘s

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Festivals in the City

  1. Chicago Jazz Festival
  2. Chicago Outdoor Film Festival
  3. Magnificent Mile Lights Festival
  4. State Street Thanksgiving Day Parade
  5. Christkindlmarket
  6. Chicago Auto Show
  7. South Side St. Patrick‘s Day Parade
  8. Printer‘s Row Book Fair or the Wells Street Art Fair
  9. Taste of Chicago
  10. Latin Music Festival

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Places to see a movie (on campus)

  1. Doc
  2. Movies on the Quad/Midway/MSI
  3. At the film studies center in Cobb
  4. In the Dorm Common room
  5. A friend‘s apartment
  6. On your laptop while in bed
  7. Jimmy‘s (21+ only)
  8. Language Commons
  9. Hallowed Grounds
  10. The Pub (21+ only)

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Books you will read before you graduate

  1. The Republic
  2. Marx Engels Reader
  3. Wealth of Nations
  4. Protestant Ethic
  5. Freud
  6. Nietzsche
  7. Poetics (Aristotle)
  8. Nicomacheaen Ethics
  9. Naked Economics
  10. Foucault

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Free Wireless Access Points in Chicago

  1. Various Places on Campus
  2. Any Chicago Public Library
  3. Chicago Cultural Center
  4. Millennium Park
  5. Café in Jumping Bean in Pilsen
  6. Argo Tea
  7. Bobtail Ice Cream Company
    8. (owned by UofC grads)
  8. Subway on 55th
  9. Third World Café
  10. Istria Café

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