SLSadie Laurel

1. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Sadie Laurel

   Hardcore Curriculum: O-Week or Woe-Week? (opens the original)

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   At minimum, three “Core” things are prebaked into the UChicago experience: Inhale, exhale. Bartlett’s air already stirs thick with the feral energy of nearly two thousand 18-year-olds waving off teary families and empty U-Hauls. Welcome to O-Week. Here, without p-sets or parents, typical spatiotemporal laws snap, crackle, and pop. As with an airport terminal at dawn or the Reg’s A-level at midnight, this threshold condition is a liminal space. Time halts its forward march, mercifully truncating

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2. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · Sadie Laurel

   Hardcore Curriculum: Stop Annotating; Start Dating. (opens the original)

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   I find that fruit and romance often go hand in hand. Seldom have I met an active UChicago dating multiverse participant whose childhood crush dance card hasn’t featured, at one point or another, a strapping young “Blueberry” or “Pineapple”—ah, code names: the most thrilling way to gamify love. Picture the prospect still shrouded in the rose-colored mist of acquaintanceship, the shivery pleasure of a secret kept! Albeit less juicy, college has its own equivalent of gamifying romance: snapping and

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