芝加哥2025Fall文书题发布！

芝加哥大学的补充文书题一直是盛名在外，特点就是天马行空、让人一眼看起来不知所云。这些文书灵感来自于芝加哥大学的在读学生和校友，学校希望申请者可以通过这些“猎奇”的主题，毫无负担的表达自己内心的想法。

虽然这些题目乍一看有点莫名其妙，但其实还是挺有趣的，而且芝大对于文书的体裁形式没有什么限制，给了学生很大的发挥空间，相对更容易写出惊艳的文书来。

近日，芝大25Fall的补充文书题目已经发布了，今年又恢复了一个必选题+六个可选题的模式，来看看今年有些什么“怪题目”吧

01、必选题

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.

正如你现在所了解的，芝加哥大学是如何满足你对一种特殊的学习、社区和未来的渴望的？请具体说明你自己的愿望以及它们与芝加哥大学的关系。

02、可选题（6选1）

Essay Option 1

We’re all familiar with green-eyed envy or feeling blue, but what about being “caught purple-handed”? Or “tickled orange”? Give an old color-infused expression a new hue and tell us what it represents.
– Inspired by Ramsey Bottorff, Class of 2026

我们都熟悉用“绿眼睛”表达“嫉妒”或用“蓝色”表达“情绪低沉”，但是否了解用“紫色的手”描述“运气不好”或“橙色”体现“开心”呢？给一个带有色彩的旧有说法创造一个新的颜色内涵，告诉我们它代表什么。

Essay Option 2

"Ah, but I was so much older then / I'm younger than that now” – Bob Dylan. In what ways do we become younger as we get older?– Inspired by Joshua Harris, Class of 2016

“啊，但那时的我比现在老多了/现在的我比那时年轻多了。”——Bob Dylan

随着年龄的增长，我们在哪些方面变得更年轻?

Essay Option 3

Pluto, the demoted planet. Ophiuchus, the thirteenth Zodiac. Andy Murray, the fourth to tennis's Big Three. Every grouping has something that doesn’t quite fit in. Tell us about a group and its unofficial member, why (or why not) should it be excluded?– Inspired by Veronica Chang, Class of 2022

冥王星，降级的行星。

蛇夫座，第十三星座。

安迪·穆雷，网球三巨头中的第四位。

每个群体都有一些不太适合的东西。告诉我们一个团体和它的非正式成员，为什么(或为什么不)应该被排除在外?

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 Name an outdated slang from any decade or language that you'd bring back and explain why you totally “dig it.”– Inspired by Napat Sakdibhornssup, Class of 2028

“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。说出任何一个年代或语言中你愿意“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.– Inspired by Malhar Manek, Class of 2028

芝加哥有多少钢琴调音师？

芝加哥大学教授一年使用的粉笔总长度是多少？

雷根斯坦图书馆有多少页书？

这些问题属于一类以芝加哥大学物理学家恩里科·费米命名的估计问题。创建你自己的费米估计问题，给出你最好的答案，并向我们展示你是如何做到的。

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!

当然，你也可以选择自己的冒险方式——从我们以往的文书题目中选择一道（或自创一个问题）来回答。发挥你的独创性、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最佳特质；大胆一点，玩得开心！

03、前几年的一些经典问题