This podcast contains explicit language. This is Anita Lee from the Daily Northwestern. I am currently stuck in a 4x5 room. I don't know where I am.
Send help. Anita, you're at UChicago. We're doing a podcast. What?
Who are you? Greg. Greg Teaser from the Maroon. Oh, right.
Wait, what's the podcast about? Questions from students from both campuses. We're getting to know each other. Oh yeah.
Let's start. Wait, did you connect with wifi? What is it? Ed Rome.
You mean Eddie Rome? No, Ed Roam. Okay, I feel like it's gonna be a long podcast. Let's get started.
The questions are all submitted anonymously through our instagram shout out to you if you did that. These are just student opinions. They just reflect a really small sliver of like ed Northwestern or UChicago. And they're definitely not the opinions of the Dating Northwestern or Eden Marin.
Should we introduce ourselves for real? Yeah, sure. So I'm Greg. I'm a second year.
I work for the Marin and I'm happy to be here. I'm Anita. I'm also a sophomore. I work for the Yale Northwestern.
Greg, what are you studying? I'm studying computer science and data science. I'm studying journalism. We're basically the same person.
Basically the same. Greg, if you could be any form of a potato, what would you be? I think a baked potato because I'm hard on the outside but soft when you get to know me. What about you?
I would be a gnocchi. I think I'm bubbly and fun and also gnocchi is the most boba shaped potato form and that's just awesome. We have a boba machine in the reg which is our busiest and probably largest library. Basically the main for all Northwestern kids Listening.
Second question. Why do we go to the other person's school? Greg, why do you go to Northwestern? I felt like I was a better fit for you Chicago.
At least from what I've heard. Obviously when you get here it's different from what you mention it. As honesty wears off. I was drawn to the admissions propaganda, the essay and the learning for the sake of learning and all of that stuff.
Why didn't you apply it at teach? How quick they don't journal. I think I've really too evacuated about the mystique wearing author. Like literally.
I remember screaming, crying, throwing up to get into Northwestern and then literally like I remember walking like he commented terms, just being like why the fuck was I so pressed to get into the school? No, I relate to that so much. Oh my gosh I still remember when I submitted my application, I was like, if I get in all right, I'm like, I will never ask for anything again in my life. The day I got in, I was just.
That was the happiest I've ever been. And then here we are, like two years later, like fucking crying after my CSB interview. Northwestern, unlike Chicago, has different schools. Liburg is our School of Arts and Sciences.
We have Medill, our School of Journalism. Woo. Woo. We have our School of Communications.
Then we have McCormick, our school of engineering. Then we have CESP, our school of Education and Social Policy. And then we have Biennan, which is our School of Music. So first question that you guys asked is, what is the UChicago stereotype?
And one professor, freshman, Jeremy Chung, has an answer. One time that I was there around some UChicago students, I heard them trying to practice their Spanish and I was like, damn, those guys are massive. Massive nerds. Massive nerds.
This is fairly accurate. I could totally see that happening. Like on the quote. I think we take things pretty seriously.
Jeremy also has another message for us. I think this is something that he wanted a certain someone to hear. I have a friend, Eddie Chicago, and he's not a bad guy at all. Shout out to Jeremy Liu.
He made the wrong choice. I know you're a smart guy, but for someone with such a large brain, he made a really dumb decision. Jeremy Liu, hope you're listening to this. He probably isn't.
Oh my. Greg, what about you? First of all, shout out to Leon Gold for helping me out with this. First response is from Vikram and it's to what do you students think of requesters?
Evanston's actually has a much better, like, kind of downtown area. I think the people are generally lacking in intelligence, but I think that despite that kind of distinct lack of intelligence, they made like a much better choice than all of us. We all kind of got fucked. The nature of delusion is that delusion is like a non discriminatory quality.
Like you can be really, really quite smart and still be delusional. That's so funny. I don't know what kind of downtown episode they're referring to. Our Gatun is like mid at best.
That was a great comeback. I think you. We could have been sworn enemies for a point there, but I think you brought it back. Thank you.
Right, you're a CS major, right? Fun fact about Northwestern is that our CS majors actually belong in two schools. So they can choose if they want to do the CS major through Weinberg. Our school of Arts and sciences or through McCormick, our school of engineering.
Let's unpack. What is the highest profession of CS majors at Chicago? So at least the stereotype is they don't shower very often. And I don't know if you guys have side chat but it's like yik yak.
And some of the posts on there are pretty concerning. I haven't showered in like five days. I haven't done my laundry in like a month or something like that Probably CS major and fun fact, our like data science CS library which is crear, smells pretty bad. But for the record Greg, do you shower?
Yes, I do shower. Let's see what a question said. This answer is coming from Zariah Gray. She is a second year in Weinberg.
She is a CS major. Do your CS majors shower? It depends. Weinberg, CS majors do shower.
McCormick, CS majors don't. The frequency in which I run into CS McCormick students outside of a class is like little to none. They look like an endangered animal. I just don't.
I don't know. They are. She just describes this. All right, what's your relationship with your mental health?
It feels like there's no respite sometimes. I'm personally like a pretty good fan of the quarter system. I just like having the opportunity to take all these classes and I end up taking more than just a semester as my understanding. That said, there are obvious trade offs.
I think with a quarter as short as ours, you sort of necessarily have to sacrifice death, which I don't like. How's it like at Northwestern? I think we have pretty different experiences. Just instead of actually in journalism you're saying cs.
So I feel like with journalism it feels a lot more like our classes are pretty chill. Like we only take one journalism class in the quarter and all the other ones are like other requirements or other areas of study. But I think there's a lot of extracurricular stuff. Definitely always the constant pressure of having stuff.
And even when you're feeling free, you feel like you should be doing something. Our question for you guys was how does it feel to have a social life? First of all, shout out to Charlie Ortego Martinez, awesome guy who helped me out with this and yes I did outsource these recordings because I going through it last week. Okay, so first one is from Alex.
My name is Alex. I'm a second year at Chicago. How does it feel to not have a social life? Actually I would say that I do have a social life.
It honestly like compared to high school, my social life is a Lot of Greek here, which may sound sad, but it's true. I guess the only thing I would say is, like, the demands of Chicago definitely hamper the amount of time or the feasibility of having a well developed social life. So I think it takes a lot more effort to have one. First of all, Alex, no, that's a slay.
Like, I'm so proud of you that you're able to find, like, your community here and, like, grow and like, sprout into the awesome butterfly that you are. I support that. Second of all, that's super valid. I don't know if you felt this right.
Like, in college you have to make much more of like, a actual effort to, like, connect with people. You have to make more effort. Especially, like, I grew up in the same sort of community, K through 12. So you had all of these cliques form.
And then in college it's like, there's so many people and it's kind of overwhelming. But I think for me, what's been helpful is finding people in RSOs, which you probably don't know that clubs are recognized student organizations. So this is a response to the question, why do you look so sad? And it's from Meliss.
She's the second year. Why do you look so sad? Well, there's quite a few reasons. The first being that I have a six page paper that was due two days ago that I haven't started that's worth 20% of my grade.
And I have another paper due that's three pages that's due in two days from now, maybe three. All of the classes are difficult and summer is expensive. And the one job that I got just asked me to fill out 10 new forms in order to get the minimum wage payment that I need. So that and the combination of finals week coming up is a lovely little.
Yeah, it's a little sad. Okay. Aww. I'm so sorry.
Bam. That sucks. Why? Lily just turned a discussion post late last night.
I'll sit in boba giving out a care in the world, typing out my thing, like hours passes due. One of y' all asks, are you actually happier than UChicago students? And we have two responses here. The first one is from Kate Wojcikowski.
Kate Wojkowski is a McCormick freshman. I think I'm pretty happy. I was honestly thinking about it so far this quarter. I haven't even cried yet.
So that's pretty good. Last quarter, maybe that wasn't the situation, but I would say I'm pretty happy. And we know school is stressful, like I said, there's good balance, so, you know, it all works out. And then we have a response from Zariah Gray, who we heard from earlier.
Is anyone really happy? Like, we're all just lying to ourselves. What are you talking about? What's happiness?
Let's get to sleep. And I don't get that that much. Nice words. I wrestle with that.
We're talking about more social issues now, like social justice issues. So one of you guys asked us, how is fossil fuel divestment campaign and Northwestern going? What are we doing in terms of trying to shift our universities investments away from fossil fuel companies? And I have a response from Anusha Kumar, who is a freshman in sespe.
That's our School of Education and Social policy. We have a student organization, Fossil Free, which is focusing on social justice work both surrounding the environment in general and also specifically towards fossil fuel divestment. Fossil Free NU is a horizontally organized organization, so they don't have a traditionally hierarchical leadership structure. But Anusha has been involved in a couple of projects as of the end of last school year.
So, like the 2021-2022 school year. Fossil Free was able to meet with the investment office. And Northwestern announced in June 2022 that it will focus on investing in companies that produce less greenhouse gas in the future and try to divest from companies that are pursuing poor greenhouse gas emission practices. That has not happened yet because they're still working towards that.
The commitment has been made, but there really has steps after that taken to ensure that that commitment is happening and like, the divestment is happening in a very sustainable way. So part of Fossil Fruit's goals right now is to make sure that they are following through with their promise. What fruit do you guys get? Blueberries are somewhat of a luxury, but we have them occasionally.
And then we have pineapples, Candle pine too. That's pretty much. Oh, and blackberries and raspberries. Sometimes.
You guys want grapes? Ooh, they're rare. Why? Grapes are rare.
That's crazy. No, when there's like any kind of berry, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, at any dining hall, it's a bloodbath. Final question someone asks, do you should come? Students go to the libraries to pick up guys or girls.
Okay, so Melody also responded to this one. That was superstar. I can definitely say that people have attempted to pick me up at a library. This has happened at every single library.
And depending on which one you're at, pick up lines will get either worse or horribly worse. I'd say that probably the writing sign is where that mostly occurs, especially on the A level. And you'll get asked questions about the stacks. It's a very common joke that people fucking with stacks.
Melody, you're a baddie. I don't think we are having sex in our libraries. I never personally seen it. I'm not surprised to hear that.
Just because of how central libraries are to social life on campus. Yeah, I mean, people go there all the time. People sleep in the library. The reg is just where everything happens.
Everything that is just the heart of campus. People take libraries seriously here. And we had at least five. And they all have their distinct cultures.
So Mansueto's the big one, the divergent one, the dome. That one's pretty intense. It's just like no noise at all. What happened?
I watched the mansueto to start, like blasting music. People with stare at you. Wait. There was this thing that happened a few weeks ago.
Somebody didn't realize that their headphones were unplugged and they started playing hentai and I wish I were making this up. It was all over, sidetracked. It was wild. That's crazy.
But what do you think of Chicago's campus? I think I can't evaluate the same because right now, like, the newness, the novelty of YU Chicago still with you, I see. Northwestern is like the place where I've shed blood, sweat and tears. So I think the baggage is different.
I think. Okay, guys, for those of you who don't know, UChicago's campus is basically like if during library had like 70 babies. Like, it's. Everything's like dark.
Academia, vines, wooden doors. Is this a medieval prison or is this like a library? I don't know. It's pretty.
I'll give them that. They have their own version of Webber Arch called Home Gate. And I kind of shouted on it before. I was like, okay, there's a Trent bs but it's kind of pretty.
But I think it's just a shame that you try to. Kids are too depressed to, like, appreciate the beauty of their campus. I've never been to Northwestern. I've seen pictures of it on like, Google Maps and things like that.
My sense is that it's very decentralized. Right. Yeah. We don't have a quad.
Wish you did. Not really. I guess, like, I can't think of any, like, quad activities that I would have done. Like, it's snowing half the year, it's windy the other half.
So I'm like, why would I use a quad for? I mean, for us, it's just chilling. Hanging out. People play music.
People. Some people, I guess that's like. We can use our lake for that when the weather gets nice. That's people, like, hang hammocks on the trees and, like, chill and stuff like that.
Do you have an actual beach? We have two. Okay, guys, we're gonna wrap this up now. Greg, it's been a good time.
What's one thing you like about Northwestern? There's a lot to like. I think. It seems like you guys have more balance than us, and I admire that, especially because I think you're working.
You somehow manage to work just as hard as us. At least that's what it seems like. You guys like a football stadium, that whole deal. Oh, my God.
Wow. That's impressive. Thank you, Greg. PI Chase.
One thing I liked about Chicago. How about you guys have fucking ice cream and milkshakes for $1 on Wednesdays? That's pretty lit. I think that would definitely encourage me to come here and hang out here more often.
Well, remember who's still listening at this point. Thank you from the Daily Northwestern. I'm in Italy. This episode was reported by me and Gregory Caesar from the Chicago Maroon.
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