新生需完成一篇必写文书外，还需要从以下6个题目中完成一篇：
Question 1 ﹙Require﹚：
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.
译：以你目前的了解，芝加哥大学是如何满足你对于某种学习、社区和未来的渴望？请具体说说你的愿望以及它们与芝加哥大学的关系。
Question 2: Extene Essay ﹙Require; Choose one﹚
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!
译：如果月亮是奶酪做的、海王星是肥皂做的呢？选择一个天体，重新想象它的物质组成，并探索它的含义。你可以自由探索物理、哲学、幻想等领域，天空是无限的！
2. What’s so easy about pie?
译：派到底有多简单？
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?
译：在荷马史诗《伊利亚特》中，海伦拥有能使一千艘船起航的美貌。因此，千分之一个海伦代表了能让一艘船起航所需要的美丽程度。一萨根可以用来表示任何大的量﹙比如数十亿﹚。“纽约分钟”测量的是从交通灯变绿到你后面的出租车按喇叭的时间间隔。发明一种新的计量单位。解释它是如何推导出来的?它是如何使用的?它们的等价物是什么？
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.
译：“没有所谓的新想法”——马克·吐温。艺术、文学、哲学或技术这些领域中，创作是可能的吗？或者所谓创作只是旧思想的重新组合?挑一件东西，任西﹙除了你自己﹚，然后解释为什么它是或不是原创的。
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.
译：据说历史总在重演。但是其他学科呢?选择另一个领域﹙化学、哲学等﹚，解释它是如何重复的，它是如何重复的，是如何重复的，如何重复的，重复的。。。
6. In the spirit of aventurous inquiry ﹙an with the encouragement of one of our current stuents!﹚ 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 worl, or future citizen of the University of Chicago; take a little risk, an have fun!
译：本着冒险的精神（在我们在校生的鼓励下），选择我们过去的问题之一（或提出您自己的问题）。具有原创性，创造力，发人深省。展现你作为作家，思想家，畅想家，社会评论家，贤哲，世界公民或芝加哥大学未来成员的特质；冒冒险，祝你玩得开心！
