Aaron recognizes people whose name he doesn’t know
Twice in the past week I’ve been surfing sites that seemingly have nothing to do with the University of Chicago, and I’ve come across pictures of U of C students. The first was via Jesica Davis, who posted some pictures on Gapers’ Block. On Jesica’s site, I found a picture of this kid from my Cultural Evolution class.
Just now, I was browsing the Heaven Gallery site, linked via TMN and apparently located in Chicago. On their site, I recognized this girl from my Media Aesthetics class (I think the guy is a U of C student too).
Just the other day Margaret, Evelyn, and I were talking about the chances of running into people we know, say, in Chicago’s Loop or on Michigan Avenue. Every time we go downtown, we see two or three U of C students, on average. Is seeing them on a Web site that has nothing to do with the University a shocking coincidence, or does this happen to people all the time? I’d bet it has become much more common recently because more people are putting more photos on the Web.
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May 30th, 2003 at 7:11 pm
if triple-posting were an olympic event you’d get 10 points for style.
May 31st, 2003 at 12:10 am
odd, I was just thinking about the same thing today.
May 31st, 2003 at 8:08 am
Well, those two in the second photo are U of C students.
I think you’re right about running into one or two on average downtown, and I think that’s actually BAD - because it’s one of those places the university encourages us to go and that means that people don’t explore the really fun neighborhoods that lay outside downtown.
As for websites, who knows.
May 31st, 2003 at 8:35 pm
Yeah, that kid in the “this kid” photo lived in Pierce when we were freshmen. I recognize the girl in the 2nd photo too, but I think just from seeing her around campus.
June 3rd, 2003 at 3:40 pm
If it helps, there’s a link on the Heaven Gallery site to something Carrie Golus, who used to work in the University’s news office, is doing.