It's tough here. Tough, but worth it. Students enter, thinkers emerge. We all know these things to be true. The problem is not the core curriculum.
Life is difficult at Chicago because rigor comes without adequate support.
It is difficult to imagine the attractive power of the country's best education, of the ability to succumb to the life of the mind, knowing that there is an integral and accessible network of comfort, support, and activity. Ask any graduate of the College whether she or he would trade her or his U of C education for a diploma from Harvard. Our graduates are a skeptical bunch, however, and they depart campus with fewer shackles than their Ivy counterparts. One that has grappled with its shortcomings, understood its strengths, and proved it could change and continue to lead the way. We don't want to hear the University is in danger of falling apart.