מענה ל־Ask Assaf About Chicago

[Assaf Wand]

#10083

To: asaf_sagy

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Hi Fellow Asaf (I write it with 2 S) :-)

Some answers (although delayed):

1) I am under the belief that most top schools have a very active social and campus life, yes there are dozens of clubs and activities etc' and this is quite similar to other top schools, I want to spend an extra line or two to elaborate on what I believe diffrentiate Chicago- Chicago is a more mature school (in my view) it let's you choose your curriculum, type of classes, and also WHERE YOU LIVE, I don't mean that other school don't offer that – but ask an MIT and HBS person where they live? ask a fellow Kellogg student where they live and you will get similar answers, In Chicago it is a bit different and depends on your preference- I lived in Lincoln Park – which is a great area in Chicago and it shaped some of my social life, yes I still was a member of several clubs and co-lead the entrepreneurship conference and even headed the school ski trip and club to Whistler, but living in a Cool area with fellow students allow me to play golf once a week, play poker with the poker club once a week etc' etc', and enabled me to have a choice (I was less focused on academia as you can see)

2) Israelis- If you are talking on just students than there are quite a few (including the law schools, medical schools, and PhD's) with spouses I would say around 20 in each of the Chicago schools and there is a decent Israeli community (huge Jewish one) in town, I wasn't too much part of the grand Israeli community so can't help with that- However, several of the spouses of the Israeli students worked in the Israeli consulate

3) As for the cold, well it sucks but it sucks everywhere in the east coast as well – it wasn't as bad as I expected and in a weird sick way it was actually cool (I never used to do snow angels etc'), it shouldn't be an issue – really

hope it helped,

Assaf