芝加哥大學(xué)2019-2020補(bǔ)充文書(shū)題目出爐

申請(qǐng)美國(guó)大學(xué)的同學(xué)都知道，每年除了CA系統(tǒng)里的通用申請(qǐng)文書(shū)外，多數(shù)美國(guó)大學(xué)都會(huì)要求提交補(bǔ)充文書(shū)，這補(bǔ)充文書(shū)中往往包含了豐富的信息，也是學(xué)校進(jìn)一步了解申請(qǐng)者的途徑。

而在眾多美國(guó)大學(xué)中，芝加哥大學(xué)的文書(shū)題目一向以趣味性和獨(dú)特另類(lèi)著稱(chēng)，創(chuàng)意題目十分考驗(yàn)學(xué)生對(duì)于題目的理解力，讓申請(qǐng)者們又愛(ài)又恨。

上周末，芝加哥大學(xué)官網(wǎng)公布了2019-2020申請(qǐng)季的附表文書(shū)題目。

芝加哥大學(xué)介紹說(shuō)：每年我們都會(huì)向新錄取的和當(dāng)前的大學(xué)生發(fā)送電子郵件，并向他們?cè)儐?wèn)論文主題。我們收到了數(shù)百個(gè)回復(fù)，其中許多都是雄辯的，有趣的，或者是徹頭徹尾的古怪。

正如您從歸因中看到的那樣，以下問(wèn)題的靈感來(lái)自于來(lái)自UChicago學(xué)生和校友的提交。

2019-20 UChicago Supplement

Question 1 (Required)

How does the University of Chicago, as you know it now, satisfy your desire for a particular kind of learning, community, and future? Please address with some specificity your own wishes and how they relate to UChicago.

根據(jù)你現(xiàn)在對(duì)芝加哥大學(xué)的了解，芝加哥大學(xué)如何滿(mǎn)足你對(duì)于學(xué)習(xí)，環(huán)境，以及未來(lái)的展望?請(qǐng)用具體事例來(lái)闡述你和芝加哥大學(xué)的聯(lián)系。

Question 2: Extended Essay (Required; Choose one)

Essay Option 1

Cats have nine lives, Pac-Man has 3 lives, and radioactive isotopes have half-lives. How many lives does something else—conceptual or actual—have, and why?

貓有9條命，吃豆人有3條命，放射性同位素有半衰期。其他觀念上的或者現(xiàn)實(shí)的生物有多少生命？為什么？

—Inspired by Kedrick Shin, Class of 2019

Essay Option 2

If there’s a limited amount of matter in the universe, how can Olive Garden (along with other restaurants and their concepts of food infinity) offer truly unlimited soup, salad, and breadsticks? Explain this using any method of analysis you wish—physics, biology, economics, history, theology… the options, as you can tell, are endless.

如果宇宙中的物質(zhì)是有限的，橄欖園(連同其他餐廳以及他們對(duì)食物無(wú)限的概念)怎么能提供真正無(wú)限的湯、沙拉和面包棒呢?用任何你想用的分析方法來(lái)解釋這個(gè)問(wèn)題——物理、生物學(xué)、經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)、歷史、神學(xué)……你可以看到，選項(xiàng)是無(wú)窮無(wú)盡的。

—Inspired by Yoonseo Lee, Class of 2023

Essay Option 3

A hot dog might be a sandwich, and cereal might be a soup, but is a ______ a ______?

一個(gè)熱狗可以成為一個(gè)三明治，麥片也可以成為湯，但是一個(gè)______一個(gè)______？

—Inspired by Arya Muralidharan, Class of 2021 (and dozens of others who, this year and in past years, have submitted the question “Is a hot dog a sandwich,” to which we reply, “maybe”)

Essay Option 4

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.” – Jessamyn West

“小說(shuō)揭示了現(xiàn)實(shí)掩蓋的真相”——杰薩明·韋斯特

—Inspired by Elizabeth Mansfield, Class of 2020

Essay Option 5

UChicago has international campus centers around the world, but we don’t have any interplanetary, interstellar, or interdimensional campuses… yet! Propose a spot in time or space, in this or any universe, for a new UChicago campus. What types of courses would be taught at this site? What cultural experiences await students who study there?

芝加哥大學(xué)在世界各地都有國(guó)際校園中心，但我們還沒(méi)有任何行星間、星際或維度間的校園……建議在時(shí)間或空間，在這個(gè)或任何宇宙的一個(gè)地方，設(shè)置一個(gè)新的芝加哥大學(xué)校園。這個(gè)地方會(huì)開(kāi)設(shè)哪些課程?在那里學(xué)習(xí)的學(xué)生有什么樣的文化體驗(yàn)?

—Inspired by Peter Jasperse, Class of 2022

Essay Option 6

“Don’t be afraid to pick past prompts! I liked some of the ones from previous years more than those made newly available for my year. Also, don’t worry about the ‘correct’ way to interpret a question. If there exists a correct way to interpret the prompt I chose, it certainly was not my answer.”

“不要害怕挑選過(guò)去的題目！比起新的這些文書(shū)題目我更喜歡前幾年的。另外，不要擔(dān)心解釋問(wèn)題的“正確”方式。如果有正確的方法來(lái)解釋我選擇的提示，那肯定不是我的回答。“

—Matthew Lohrs, Class of 2023

一看題目就蒙圈了，有沒(méi)有？

就是這樣，還有更燒腦的，我們看一下往年的題目：

Due to a series of clerical errors, there is exactly one typo (an extra letter, a removed letter, or an altered letter) in the name of every department at the University of Chicago. Oops! Describe your new intended major. Why are you interested in it and what courses or areas of focus within it might you want to explore? Potential options include Commuter Science, Bromance Languages and Literatures, Pundamentals: Issues and Texts, Ant History... a full list of unmodified majors ready for your editor’s eye is available here.

（https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/academics/areas-study）

—Inspired by Josh Kaufman, AB'18

Vestigiality refers to genetically determined structures or attributes that have apparently lost most or all of their ancestral function, but have been retained during the process of evolution. In humans, for instance, the appendix is thought to be a vestigial structure. Describe something vestigial (real or imagined) and provide an explanation for its existence.

—Inspired by Tiffany Kim, Class of 2020

In French, there is no difference between “conscience” and “consciousness.” In Japanese, there is a word that specifically refers to the splittable wooden chopsticks you get at restaurants. The German word “fremdsch?men” encapsulates the feeling you get when you’re embarrassed on behalf of someone else. All of these require explanation in order to properly communicate their meaning, and are, to varying degrees, untranslatable. Choose a word, tell us what it means, and then explain why it cannot (or should not) be translated from its original language.

—Inspired by Emily Driscoll, Class of 2018

Heisenberg claims that you cannot know both the position and momentum of an electron with total certainty. Choose two other concepts that cannot be known simultaneously and discuss the implications. (Do not consider yourself limited to the field of physics).

—Inspired by Doran Bennett, AB’07

Susan Sontag, AB’51, wrote that “[s]ilence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.” Write about an issue or a situation when you remained silent, and explain how silence may speak in ways that you did or did not intend. The Aesthetics of Silence, 1967.

—Anonymous Suggestion

So where is Waldo, really?

—Inspired by Robin Ye, AB’16

Findx.

How did you get caught? (Or not caught, as the case may be.)

—Inspired by Kelly Kennedy, AB’10

Chicago author Nelson Algren said, “A writer does well if in his whole life he can tell the story of one street.” Chicagoans, but not just Chicagoans, have always found something instructive, and pleasing, and profound in the stories of their block, of Main Street, of Highway 61, of a farm lane, of the Celestial Highway. Tell us the story of a street, path, road—real or imagined or metaphorical.

—Anonymous Suggestion

有沒(méi)有感覺(jué)自己腦子不夠用了，已經(jīng)完成標(biāo)化考試的同學(xué)，要盡快著手你的文書(shū)寫(xiě)作了，合理規(guī)劃好自己的時(shí)間，尤其是遇到這么燒腦的題目，更要提前準(zhǔn)備了。