Essay Option 4
"Daddy-o", "Far Out", "Gnarly": the list of slang terms goes on and on. Sadly, most of these aren’t so "fly" anymore – “as if!” Name an outdated slang from any decade or language that you'd bring back and explain why you totally “dig it.”
“Daddy-o”、“Far Out”、“Gnarly”,有很多这样的俚语。遗憾的是,其中大多数都不再那么“时髦”了——“好像!”说出任何一个年代、或任何语言中你愿意“重新挖出”的过时俚语,并解释为什么你愿意让它重新“火”起来。
Essay Option 5
How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?
What is the total length of chalk used by UChicago professors in a year?
How many pages of books are in the Regenstein Library?
These questions are among a class of estimation problems named after University of Chicago physicist Enrico Fermi. Create your own Fermi estimation problem, give it your best answer, and show us how you got there.
芝加哥有多少位钢琴调音师?
芝加哥大学教授一年内使用的粉笔总长度是多少?
雷根斯坦图书馆有多少页书?
这些问题属于以芝加哥大学物理学家恩里科·费米命名的一类估算难题。
创建你自己的费米估算难题,给出你的答案,并向我们展示你是如何解题的。
Essay Option 6
And, as always… the classic choose your own adventure option! In the spirit of adventurous inquiry, choose one of our past prompts (or create a question of your own). 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!
怀着冒险探究的精神,选择一道我们以往的文书题目(或自创一个问题)。发挥你自己的创造性、深刻性,作为作家、思想家、幻想家、社会批评家、圣人、世界公民或芝加哥大学未来学生的特质;大胆一点,玩得开心!









