QUOTE: One of the more amusing things about being at a school like Michigan is that you get a large number of professors who have bounced around all your basic high-powered universities, and don't hesitate to resort to the crudest stereotypes of the students at various institutions... it's guaranteed hilarity.
Today's example: my political modeling professor (who taught at CalTech and Northwestern before coming here) was discussing an example involving a large sum of money that some people wanted to give to the University of Chicago to build a fancy gym-type-thing. They refused, naturally (Northwestern ended up getting it), which prompeted the following set of observations:
"People at the University of Chicago don't work out... they all wear black and walk around with their hands behind their backs [does impression of mild-mannered but serious student]...
[after discussing the role selection bias plays in picking academic institutions] People who go to the University of Chicago don't want to work out: that's why they went to the University of Chicago."
Lest you think I'm horribly biased, as a potential Chicago grad student, it's exactly that sort of reputation that makes me want to go there. But then again, I'm also wearing black...
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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