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Please respond to one of the prompts below in a short essay of 300 words or fewer.
请选择以下一个问题回答（300字以内）
1. At Williams we believe that bringing together students and professors in small groups produces extraordinary academic outcomes. Our distinctive Oxford-style tutorial classes—in which two students are guided by a professor in deep exploration of a single topic—are a prime example. Each week the students take turns developing independent work—an essay, a problem set, a piece of art—and critiquing their partner’s work. Focused on close reading, writing and oral defense of ideas, more than 60 tutorials a year are offered across the curriculum, with titles like Aesthetic Outrage, Financial Crises: Causes and Cures, and Genome Sciences: At the Cutting Edge. Imagine yourself in a tutorial at Williams. Of anyone in the world, whom would you choose to be your partner in the class, and why?
翻译：
在威廉姆斯学院，我们认为学生和教授在小组环境中上课的效果非常好。主要例子为：我们独特的牛津风格tutorial classes，即一位教授带两个学生深入研究某一话题。每周，学生会轮流开展独立作业，如论文、问题集、艺术品，并要对同学的作品做出评价。学校各门课程提供超过60个tutorial，重点在于培养学生精读、写作、口头辩论能力。这样的tutorial的题目包括“美学愤怒”、“金融危机：原因和对策”、“基因组科学：在世界前沿”。想象你自己身处威廉姆斯的一个tutorial，你想选择谁作为你课堂上的搭档？为什么？
破题：
选人的关键是选课题，所以需要先选择一个自己感兴趣的话题，再根据这个话题去找人。选的人要有自己独特的见解，不能随大流，随便抓一个名人。论述的重点是为什么选择这个人，而不是这个人的介绍。
2. Each Sunday night, in a tradition called Storytime, students, faculty and staff gather to hear a fellow community member relate a brief story from their life (and to munch on the storyteller’s favorite homemade cookies). What story would you share? What lessons have you drawn from that story, and how would those lessons inform your time at Williams?
翻译：
每个周日的晚上，我们有一个传统叫“storytime”。学生、教职工聚在一起，听一个社区成员简要概述他们自己的一个故事（并且品尝演讲者最爱的自制饼干）。你会给大家分享一个什么故事？你从故事中学到了什么？你学到的东西将怎么用于在威廉姆斯的求学时光？
破题：
选一件对你有启迪的生活经历。不管是成就也好，挫折也罢，经历本身不重要，重要的是经历之后的思考。这道题思考方式跟主文书很像，回顾自身，是什么影响你现在的兴趣、性格、专业选择、思想等？找到那一件令你触动的事情，就是你这篇文章的主体了。
3. Every first-year student at Williams lives in an Entry—a thoughtfully constructed microcosm of the student community that’s a defining part of the Williams experience. From the moment they arrive, students find themselves in what’s likely the most diverse collection of backgrounds, perspectives and interests they’ve ever encountered. What might differentiate you from the other first-year students in an entry? What perspective(s) would you add to the conversation with your peers?
翻译：
每年威廉姆斯的新生都会住在Entry，一个特意建造的学生社区，这是一段典型的威廉姆斯经历。从他们到校开始，学生们会发现他们处于可能是他们见过的最多元化的社区（不同的背景、看法、兴趣）。你和entry里其他新生不一样的地方在哪里？你会在跟他们的对话中加入什么观点？
破题：
这道题是关于diversity和uniqueness。找到自身最特别的一个点，突出你的特别之处。切入点可以如题干所提示：身份背景、兴趣爱好、想法经历等。
