hi everyone we are currently standing on the main quadrant the main quad was built in 1892
and was designed by the architect Henry Cobb in a neo-gothic style that permeates throughout the
rest of our beautiful campus as you can see we're standing on many acres of green space
and the quad was actually registered as a botanical garden by the American public
garden Association throughout the school year you see many students hanging out on the spot
and also studying because the entire quad is outfitted with both Wi-Fi and many outlets in
addition student organizations will often have events and fundraisers on the flood including
tightrope walking fencing competitions frisbee tournaments and many other activities also the
quad was featured in many popular films and was actually in the opening scene of one harry myself
welcome to Harper Memorial Library Harper was opened in 1912 and I always like to think that
the memorial part of the name refers both to our first president here at the University William
Rainey Harper and the fact that this is actually no longer library moved most of our books from
here over across the quad to the Regenstein library when that opened in 1970 nowadays
Harper is home to a bunch of different offices including the Office of the Dean of Students
the Dean of the college studying abroad and the academic advising department I love studying in
Harper for its reading room located on the third floor it's usually open 24 hours a day and it's
a nice quiet study spot as well another reason I love it is because at 11:30 every night someone
from Harper cafe comes in and shouts two of the most beautiful words in the English language free
coffee if you're not interested in free coffee though you can head over to Harper tutors for
grad students PhD students and writing interns help you out on a variety of different subjects
hello everyone welcome to Cobb hall table Falls the oldest building on campus at the University
of Chicago this built in the year 1892 and at the time it was the most expensive building on campus
costing a whopping $100,000 amazing today this building houses a lot of the classrooms for the
core curriculum these classrooms are small the tables are arranged in a circle and there's no
podium or lecture so the professors are sitting right at the table with the students classes are
capped at 19 students and there's a huge emphasis on class-based discussion on the third floor of
this building we have the Renaissance Society which houses a number of exhibitions programs
and publications which sort of express the ideas and expressions of our time which is
pretty cool and a few little story about this building in the year 1892 which was the first
year of classes the night before the first day of class at the University of Chicago all of
the administrators including the first president William Rainey Harper they spent the entire night
inside this building setting up tables and chairs cleaning the chalkboards and getting everything
ready for the students so this building has a lot of history this really cool place to study
hi everyone welcome to max clubski residential commons it's one of our 11 residential halls on
campus it was completed in 2001 and named after max Bluffs II was a philanthropist political
activist entrepreneur and art collector max plop ski holds 700 students in its three different
ways east central and west these wings are connected by underground tacos 700 students
seems like a lot but it's actually divided into smaller communities of about 60 to 120 students
we call these communities houses each house has its own resident assistant which is like a cool
older brother an upperclassmen student who is there for your guidance there's also our h's
which our resident heads that's like your cool aunt or uncle that are there for guidance from
the adult perspective each house also has its own house kitchen and has lounge as well as its
own cross culture house traditions and friendly house rivalries hello everyone welcome to the
Joe and Rika man sweater library it's one of six libraries on campus it's attached to the
Regenstein library right there behind me it was also recently featured in the film type version
I was actually sitting right there in the library when they were filming that a lot of people look
at this building and they wonder why exactly it's called the library because if you look inside
through the glass all you will see our tables and chairs where students like to sit and study
but actually this building extends stories underground where the university has housed
millions and millions of volumes of books as well as all of the rare archives and collections so if
you need a book from there all you do is you go up to a computer you type in the book you
need a huge robot arm shoots underground grabs the entire bookshelf pulls it up the doors open
and you grab the book right off the shelf it's a crazy system I mess with it all the time because
really fun but it's also just a really great place to go and get some work done in the fall
and in the spring there's a lot of sunlight coming into the building so it's a really beautiful space
to study and during the winter it looks like a reverse snow globe so it's really cool definitely
my number one study spot on campus hi everyone welcome to Donnelly Hall otherwise known as the
PSLV the be SLC is home to not only medical school here on campus the Pritzker School of benefit but
also the Biological Sciences Division as a biology major and put a ton of time in this building in
between lecture and discussion but the vsoc also has a ton of opportunities as well it also has
my favorite hey everyone I'm currently standing outside of campus North residential Commons North
is set to be completed in 2016 and was designed by studio gang architects north is gonna feature
two port yards two classrooms state-of-the-art Dining Commons ground level commercial venues at
Lowe's a 15th floor reading room that will feature spectacular views of lakefront university north is
going to house about 800 students and will contain eight houses it's going to feature single double
and apartment style accommodations we're very excited for this new addition to our campus
behind me the volumetric Research Center for molecular engineering on the house is
our first ever molecular engineering department for undergraduate the building housed a lot of
our great physical science offices ranging from astronomy and astrophysics to cosmology it also
has our Enrico Fermi Institute and the Institute for molecular engineering that major is great
because our students are able to take a variety of causes in a lot of different sub topics ranging
from science and arts and technology to envy into engineering and cancers Logan our students are
able to take a lot of different classes within the major locations building against me - welcome to
the Ryder Athletic Center it was opened in 2003 and designed where the famous architects c-czar
Pelle who is known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings but the gym itself is
named after Gerald Brock who is an outfielder on the university's baseball team in our days
in the Big Ten Conference this gym features an Olympic sized swimming pool competitive
an auxilary gymnasium a fitness center and a multi-purpose dance studio in the students to
do the university holds classes that are free for students year-round including Zumba cardio
kickboxing yoga and several others the lobby of the building also features the first-ever Heisman
trophies won by Jay Berwick as far as varsity athletics University competes at the highest
level of d3 athletics in the you a proper dress student athletes our students first and foremost
hi guys this is the Joseph Regenstein library behind me it is one of the largest libraries
in the Western Hemisphere in terms of number of volumes of books there are over four and a half
million different books in here over five floors of space each floor has this huge expansive area
where they have all these different book stacks and you can sort of walk through them and get lost
within them it's really cool also each floor that you go up it gets quieter and quieter so you can
sort of determine your study space accordingly on the first floor of this building we have the tech
bar which is sort of like you Chicago's version of the Genius Bar if you have any sort of computer
related issues or if you need to rent any computer equipment you can go there and do it for free also
in the first floor we have a cafe that's called ex-libris it's a student-run cafe student staff
student budgeted and all that so it's a really cool place to go get some coffee wire doing your
study hi guys I'm currently standing on the third floor of the RIBA and David Logan Center for the
Arts one of our newest buildings on campus within the Logan Center including music practice rooms
classrooms a cafe gallery spaces a performance penthouse and also performance walkers last
year Kanye West's chance the rapper and vic mensa actually had five concert my favorite thing about
the Logan Center is that student organizations are always rehearsing and practicing in these
spaces some of my favorite organizations include University Theatre which is actually one of our
largest groups on campus laborsome box our circus organization and also off off campus
are hilarious improv troupe I spend a lot of time in this building and the great thing about it is
that you don't need to be an art major or minor to use it spaces and resources hey everyone I'm
currently standing outside Renee Granville gross and residential Commons formally known as stop
this is where I got to call home this past year it houses about eight hundred students and contains
eight houses including mine crown house obviously the best house on campus it offers singles doubles
and apartment style accommodations along with study rooms with beautiful views of
campus practices pianos and a convenience store called Midway market located on the bottom I've
had an incredible experience here and I definitely recommend you consider it when choosing your huh
welcome to Rockefeller Memorial Chapel Rockefeller was opened in 1928 and it's
named after john d rockefeller the founder of the university who wanted to tallest building
on campus named after him inside you can find the inner religious center but on campus we have over
30 different religious organizations each with their own advisor and religious space during the
orientation week all incoming students come into Rockefeller for the aims of Education address
we're a distinguished faculty member comes in and talks about education here at U Chicago