We do Freeze Over

Maybe you heard it gets cold here. It certainly won't be when you get here. In fact, after carrying your belongings up 3 flights of stairs, you're going to be ready to swoon. But When October rolls in, or maybe November, weather here isn't a precise science, a cold will lock in that you won't shake until March. Or April. But that's why living in Hoover will be so great. The library and Bartlett Dining Commons are just a few frigid moments away. You could almost go in your bare feet. If you have huge furry feet like a Hobbit.

Maybe you heard, or a sibling who goes here told you, or you noticed when you came to campus as a prospie, but everyone here sells t-shirts and hoodies. They all carry some self deprecating or boastful message. Like "Where Fun Goes to Die" or "If I Wanted an 'A' I Would Have Gone to Harvard," and others that we can't mention on a family blog.

Two years ago, we reached into the discard bin to grab a t-shirt message that was popular some years ago, but hadn't been in circulation for a half-a-decade at least. The phrase - "Hell Does Freeze Over" - aims to do what a lot of these t-shirt slogans set out to do: it calls attention to the fact that University of Chicago students face perilous academic rigor, classroom challenges that would wilt a normal human being. And, by the way, the t-shirt goes on to point out, they do this while freezing their niblets off.