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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

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College Writing Is Fundamental to Deep Learning

College Writing Is Fundamental to Deep Learning

By Camille Cypher / September 22, 2025
Camille Cypher shows how academic writing still matters despite growing incentives to use AI.
You Get the Best of Both Worlds

You Get the Best of Both Worlds

By Sofia Cavallone / September 22, 2025
In the face of indiscriminate threats against all facets of higher education, double majoring is your best bet.

To the Class of 2029: Welcome to UChicago!

By Tiffany Li, Elena Eisenstadt, and Evgenia Anastasakos / September 22, 2025

To the Class of 2029: Welcome to UChicago! It’s a feat just to have made it to your first days of university, and we warmly congratulate you. It may feel like your first week, and perhaps even your...

The admissions office housed in Rosenwald Hall.

UChicago Expands Early Admissions Round for Summer Session Students

By Anika Krishnaswamy and Eliot Aguera y Arcas / September 22, 2025
Beginning with the Class of 2029, the “Summer Session Early Notification” option allows all Summer Session participants to apply to UChicago on an accelerated schedule and receive decisions on a rolling basis before November 1.
Sunrise at Promontory Point.

Hyde Park First-Date Spots

By Nolan Shaffer, Shawn Quek, Emily Sun, and Elizabeth Eck / September 22, 2025
Arts editors present a dozen options for dates—with budding romances, new friends or, in proper UChicago form, your course book.
William Rainey Harper Memorial Library.

UChicago to Overhaul Undergraduate Writing Program and Introduce New Core Writing Course

By Sophia Liu / September 22, 2025
The University’s multi-year plan to revamp the writing program will introduce the new Core course Inquiry, Conversation, Argument and discontinue the writing specialist position.
College Writing Is Fundamental to Deep Learning

College Writing Is Fundamental to Deep Learning

By Camille Cypher / September 22, 2025
Camille Cypher shows how academic writing still matters despite growing incentives to use AI.
The John Crerar Library.

Could AI Transform Weather Forecasting?

By Jinny Kim / September 22, 2025
A UChicago initiative seeks to innovate weather and climate research and forecasting with artificial intelligence.
The Joseph Regenstein Library.

The Faces Behind the Face Cards

By Kaci Sziraki / September 22, 2025
Kaci Sziraki provides a deep dive into the poker scene at UChicago.
Aerial photo of International House. Courtesy of Denise Jorgens.

I-House: The Good, the Bad, and the History

By Jack Rich / September 22, 2025
Grey City reporter Jack Rich explores the many masks worn by UChicago’s “worst” dorm.
The University of Chicago's Booth School of Business

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minor Among UChicago’s New Academic Offerings

By Naina Purushothaman / September 22, 2025
The interdisciplinary program launches this autumn quarter, alongside a new Core writing requirement and an archaeology major.
You Get the Best of Both Worlds

You Get the Best of Both Worlds

By Sofia Cavallone / September 22, 2025
In the face of indiscriminate threats against all facets of higher education, double majoring is your best bet.
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