2022年芝加哥文书题目解析

芝加哥文书题目素以 脑洞大开 著称， 除了必须写的一篇文书之外，另一篇optional的prompt非常有意思，且每年更新 。以下是今年的选项：

Essay Option 1

What if the moon were mae of cheese? Or Neptune mae of soap? Pick a celestial object, reimagine its material composition, an explore the implications. Feel free to explore the realms of physics, philosophy, fantasy…the sky is the limit!

Essay Option 2

What’s so easy about pie?

Essay Option 3

In Homer’s Ilia, Helen ha a “face that launche a thousan ships.” A millihelen, then, measures the beauty neee to launch one ship. The Sagan unit is use to enote any large quantity ﹙in place of “billions an billions”﹚. A New York Minute measures the perio of time between a traffic light turning green an the cab behin you honking. Invent a new unit of measurement. How is it erive? How is it use? What are its equivalents?

Essay Option 4

"There is no such thing as a new iea" - Mark Twain. Are any pieces of art, literature, philosophy, or technology truly original, or just a ifferent combination of ol ieas? Pick something, anything ﹙besies yourself﹚, an explain why it is, or is not, original.

Essay Option 5

It＇s sai that history repeats itself. But what about other isciplines? Choose another fiel ﹙chemistry, philosophy, etc.﹚ an explain how it repeats itself. Explain how it repeats itself.

芝加哥大学必选文书要求如下：

How oes the University of Chicago, as you know it now, satisfy your esire for a particular kin of learning, community, an future? Please aress with some specificity your own wishes an how they relate to UChicago.