众所周知，对于很多申请芝加哥大学的同学来说，撰写芝加哥大学文书是一件需要绞尽脑汁、令人头疼不已的事情。

今年芝大的小文书题目一如既往精灵古怪。

虽然“怪”与“偏”，但不可否认，芝大文书的烧脑与有趣，给申请者带来了重新思考生活细节的机会，激发学生们思辨能力、创造力及写作能力，对于申请百利而无一害。

不管你有没有想要申请芝大的打算，都可以一起来看看这些芝大的优秀文书，及专业人士的点评，快来头脑风暴吧！

（因篇幅限制，文中仅展示2篇小文书及解析，完整版芝大小文书解析，领取方式见文末）

芝大小文书题目

必写小文书题目：

根据你现在对芝加哥大学的认知，你认为芝加哥大学如何满足你对一种特定的学习方式、团体和未来的希望？

请列举几个你自己的愿望以及它们和芝加哥大学的关联。

小文书6选1：

1.为什么月亮不能是奶酪做的？海王星不能是肥皂做的？选择一个天体，重新想象一下它的组成物质，并探索其含义。请尽情探索物理、哲学、幻想……

2.什么让“pie”如此简单？

3.在荷马史诗的《伊利亚特》中，海伦拥有着可以“使千艘战舰齐发的容貌”。因此，“1毫海伦（即千分之一的海伦）”则可以成为使一艘战舰启航的计量单位。

除此之外，1萨根可以代表任何庞大的数量（代替几十亿），而1纽约分钟代表交通信号灯变绿到你身后的出租车按喇叭的时间间隔。

请发明一个全新的计量单位，并解释这个计量单位是：怎么得到的？怎么使用的？该单位和其他什么东西相等？

4.没有所谓的“原创”——马克·吐温

这世界上有没有任何一件艺术品、文学著作、哲学理论或科学技术是完完全全的“原创”？

还是它们只是一些已经存在的想法的集合？请从除你之外的世间万物中挑出一件，解释它是否拥有原创性。

5.人们说“历史总在不断重演”，那么其他的学科呢？请选择一个其他的学科领域，并解释他们是如何重演的。

6.怀着冒险探究的精神（在我们现在的一个学生的鼓励下！）从我们以往的文书题目中选择一道（或自创一个问题）。

发挥自己的独创性、创造性、深刻性。汲取你作为作家、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品质；大胆一点，玩得开心！

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范文

Did I mention I’m a cultural philosopher interested in starting a Neo-Confucian reformation through literature and music? Well, I am. And there’s no better place for me than UChicago. Here’s why:

When I visited the Leo Strauss Center at UChicago in June 2018, its managing editor Prof. Gayle McKeen led me to the top floor of Regenstein, where Strauss’ notes and manuscripts are stored.

While teaching at UChicago, Strauss dug into ancient philosophers’ esoteric scripts and did a very good job deciphering them -- and the trick lies in those notes. After I realized this, my summer camp roommate never saw me before 10 pm for two weeks. For my own little reformation, a lot of deciphering and arrangement need to be done, for which Strauss’ method will provide an ideal guide. 

UChicago is the only institution that grants access to those notes, and I wonder when my roommate will see me since there is no curfew for undergraduates. (Answer: still 10 pm, since that’s when Regenstein closes.)

Strauss was pretty smart, but he would’ve been more efficient if he had something called “Digital Humanities,” an area in which UChicago is now the undisputed leader. I am excited to benefit from and contribute to this promising enterprise, as I personally experienced its convenience when I pulled statistics of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert from Prof. 

Robert Morrissey’s digitized French literature project, which was an immense help to my research on the Enlightenment. I can see myself compiling and digitizing the “Classic of Documents” with Prof. Edward L. Shaughnessy from East Asian Language and Civilizations department, comparing the respective frequency of Confucius’ use of “Ren” and “Yi” in this work, and investigate the subtleties of Neo-Confucian thoughts.

UChicago is the only school I am applying to that opens to undergraduates the course “Adaptation & Translation in Theater-Making.” The intercultural and interdisciplinary approach of this course makes it a perfect resource for me to refine my “Wen Tianxiang” and begin creating other works. 

The music course “Social and Cultural Studies of Music” will deepen my understanding of the connection between music and the philosophy behind it, and the Composition Seminar will vastly improve my skills as I can receive criticisms from world-renowned composers. 

While technically the seminar is for graduate students, Prof. Augusta Thomas Thomas assured me that distinguished undergraduates can participate as well. Most excitingly, the “Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities” major allows me to fit all of the above into my four-year-journey. My final BA project, as I envision now, will be a full opera that embodies Neo-Confucian philosophy in a modern story, performed in English and accompanied by a Western-style orchestra. 

I also look forward to pursuing a multitude of activities at UChicago’s UROCK Climbing Club (I am actually quite a climber -- didn’t see that coming, did you?), its Symphony Orchestra, its University Theater, and of course its Philosophy Club -- while I certainly hope to stage my reformation, sometimes it’s ok to just be a casual intellectual who sits around and talks, or to just have fun. 

Insofar as I am a cultural philosopher interested in starting a Neo-Confucian reformation through literature and music, I look forward to seeing that reformation emerging in the neighborhood of Hyde Park. (538 words)

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这篇文章在正文段落中，提供了一个很好的、快速的“钩子”，以及清晰的主题句（尽管它们并不总是段落的第一句）。

你的读者可能会快速到略读的程度。如果是这样，清晰的论文、清晰的主题、清晰（但简洁）的结论，会有助于确保读者不会错过任何重要内容。 

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正文讨论了具体的课程、计划和机会，其中一些是芝加哥大学独有的。然后通过清晰的思考，展示了它们是如何与学生想要追求的目标相联系的。

我们清楚地感觉到，学生并不是仅仅因为学校在某处的排名而申请，或者只是略读了一些基本信息，而是TA已经花时间考虑了，芝加哥大学能如何专门提供给他想要的教育。

3.将这些细节与你的价值观联系起来。

我们经常称其为论文的“那又怎样”元素——不要只告诉芝加哥大学它的学校有多棒（它知道）。

要通过反思它们会让你追求或探索什么，去体现为什么这些细节和你的价值观有联系，以及为什么这些事情对你很重要。

如果你可以将你对学校感兴趣的细节，与你已经完成或计划继续的事情联系起来，就像上面那个学生反复做的那样，肯定可以加分。