燒腦又奇葩的文書又來了！芝加哥大學公布2017-2018年申請essay題目！

申請美國大學的同學都知道，每年除了CA系統里的通用申請文書外，多數美國大學都會要求提交補充文書，這補充文書中往往包含了豐富的信息，也是學校進一步了解申請者的途徑。而在眾多美國大學中，芝加哥大學的文書題目算是出了名的刁鑽古怪了，各種標新立異，燒腦又奇葩，簡直讓申請者們又愛又恨。

所以，芝大通常每年夏天，在8月1日申請系統開放之前就把文書題目公布出來，以便留給大家更多時間思考。前幾天，芝加哥大學官網放出了2017-2018的補充文書題目，一起來瞅瞅。

2017-2018芝加哥大學補充文書題目：

Question 1 (必答):

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.

根據你現在對芝加哥大學的了解，芝加哥大學如何滿足你對於學習，環境，以及未來的展望?請用具體事例來闡述你和芝加哥大學的聯繫。

Question 2 (選答):

Share with us a few of your favorite books, poems, authors, films, plays, pieces of music, musicians, performers, paintings, artists, blogs, magazines, or newspapers. Feel free to touch on one, some, or all of the categories listed, or add a category of your own.

跟我們分享一下你最喜歡的書，詩歌，作者，電影，戲劇，音樂，表演藝術家，畫作，藝術家，博客，雜誌或報紙。你可以選擇以上其中任意一項，或幾項甚至全部。你也可以添加自己想要分享的類別。

除了上面的題目，申請芝加哥大學2018年秋季入學的學生，還需要從以下題目中選一個來寫。

拓展題目：（必答，任選一個）

Essay Option 1.

「The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.」 – Joseph Joubert

Sometimes, people talk a lot about popular subjects to assure 『victory』 in conversation or understanding, and leave behind topics of less popularity, but great personal or intellectual importance. What do you think is important but under-discussed?

Essay Option 2.

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/majors-minors.

Essay Option 3.

Earth. Fire. Wind. Water. Heart! Captain Planet supposes that the world is made up of these five elements. We』re familiar with the previously-noted set and with actual elements like hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, but select and explain another small group of things (say, under five) that you believe compose our world.

Essay Option 4.

The late New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham once said "Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life. I don』t think you could do away with it. It would be like doing away with civilization." Tell us about your 「armor.」

Essay Option 5.

Fans of the movie Sharknado say that they enjoy it because 「it』s so bad, it』s good.」 Certain automobile owners prefer classic cars because they 「have more character.」 And recently, vinyl record sales have skyrocketed because it is perceived that they have a warmer, fuller sound. Discuss something that you love not in spite of but rather due to its quirks or imperfections.

Essay Option 6.

In the spirit of adventurous inquiry, pose your own question or choose one of our past prompts. Be original, creative, thought provoking. Draw on your best qualities as a writer, thinker, visionary, social critic, sage, citizen of the world, or future citizen of the University of Chicago; take a little risk, and have fun.

雖然芝大的essay題目向來獨特又難寫，但這是進芝加哥大學的必經途徑，也是它篩選學生的手段：如果文書題目能激發你的興趣，讓你腦洞大開，那這所牛校可能蠻適合你。如果看完題目，你的反應那它或許根本就不該出現在你的選校列表裡。

準備考芝大的同學們，開始構思起來吧！

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