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Alumni retrospectives: how writing about graffiti can get you into college

After some recent publicity in the University of Chicago Magazine and the Chicago Tribune, alumni have been e-mailing me with their own memories of UChicago graffiti. With their permission, I’d like to share them here.
Eric Blommel (AB Philosophy ‘92) recalls:

I shit, therefore I am shit.
For a good time, call… another school and transfer!
[Written on the [...]

Beyond the Reg: Eckhart math library

Amidst the classrooms and offices of Eckhart Hall lies the large-ish room with large windows and two quirky balconies that houses 55,000 “research level monographs, scholarly journals, and selected textbooks in computer science, mathematics, and statistics”.
Who studies there?
My husband did a stint as a student assistant in Eckhart Library, and as he recalls it, the [...]