所以，芝大通常每年夏天，在8月1日申请系统开放之前就把文书题目公布出来，以便留给大家更多时间思考。前几天，芝加哥大学官网放出了2017-2018的补充文书题目，一起来瞅瞅。

2017-2018芝加哥大学补充文书题目：

Question 1 (必答):

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.

根据你现在对芝加哥大学的了解，芝加哥大学如何满足你对于学习，环境，以及未来的展望?请用具体事例来阐述你和芝加哥大学的联系。

Question 2 (选答):

Share with us a few of your favorite books, poems, authors, films, plays, pieces of music, musicians, performers, paintings, artists, blogs, magazines, or newspapers. Feel free to touch on one, some, or all of the categories listed, or add a category of your own.

跟我们分享一下你最喜欢的书，诗歌，作者，电影，戏剧，音乐，表演艺术家，画作，艺术家，博客，杂志或报纸。你可以选择以上其中任意一项，或几项甚至全部。你也可以添加自己想要分享的类别。

除了上面的题目，申请芝加哥大学2018年秋季入学的学生，还需要从以下题目中选一个来写。

拓展题目：（必答，任选一个）

Essay Option 1.

“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.” – Joseph Joubert

Sometimes, people talk a lot about popular subjects to assure ‘victory’ in conversation or understanding, and leave behind topics of less popularity, but great personal or intellectual importance. What do you think is important but under-discussed?

Essay Option 2.

Due to a series of clerical errors, there is exactly one typo (an extra letter, a removed letter, or an altered letter) in the name of every department at the University of Chicago. Oops! Describe your new intended major. Why are you interested in it and what courses or areas of focus within it might you want to explore? Potential options include Commuter Science, Bromance Languages and Literatures, Pundamentals: Issues and Texts, Ant History... a full list of unmodified majors ready for your editor’s eye is available here: https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/academics/majors-minors.

Essay Option 3.

Earth. Fire. Wind. Water. Heart! Captain Planet supposes that the world is made up of these five elements. We’re familiar with the previously-noted set and with actual elements like hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, but select and explain another small group of things (say, under five) that you believe compose our world.

Essay Option 4.

The late New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham once said "Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life. I don’t think you could do away with it. It would be like doing away with civilization." Tell us about your “armor.”

Essay Option 5.

Fans of the movie Sharknado say that they enjoy it because “it’s so bad, it’s good.” Certain automobile owners prefer classic cars because they “have more character.” And recently, vinyl record sales have skyrocketed because it is perceived that they have a warmer, fuller sound. Discuss something that you love not in spite of but rather due to its quirks or imperfections.

Essay Option 6.

In the spirit of adventurous inquiry, pose your own question or choose one of our past prompts. 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.

虽然芝大的essay题目向来独特又难写，但这是进芝加哥大学的必经途径，也是它筛选学生的手段：如果文书题目能激发你的兴趣，让你脑洞大开，那这所牛校可能蛮适合你。如果看完题目，你的反应那它或许根本就不该出现在你的选校列表里。

准备考芝大的同学们，开始构思起来吧！