As you may or may not have heard, most Booth students live in “The Loop”. The Loop is at the heart of downtown Chicago, making it easy to get to the Hyde Park campus or virtually any part of the city via public transport, car, or bike. There are a...
I don’t know where to begin in reflecting on my last two years at Booth. When I think about how I got here, it feels like it was all meant to happen the way it did. What felt like a huge rejection in 2017 meant I ultimately matriculated with...
In this post from the Busting the Myth series, we bring you another myth, and this time it is about the city we’re based in. We repeatedly hear the concern that Chicago might not be a great city to live or study in mostly due to the cold...
Growing up, Black History Month (BHM) was a retrospective look into the past. We honored the leaders of the Abolitionist and Civil Rights Movements. We memorized and recited sections of Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech and talked about our...
“Booth doesn’t have a cohort system so it’s hard to have a strong community.” … “Where the campus is located within Chicago also might not make it easy to foster community.” These were statements I heard and believed to be true while applying to...