昨天，芝加哥公布了2025-2026届的补充文书题目。而芝加哥大学的补充文书向来都是以“另类”著称，当然今年也不负众望地提供了极其 “烧脑” 的题目供申请人选择，题目灵感大都来自本校的学生。
让我们一起往下看。
Question 1（必填）
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.
您认为的芝加哥大学是在哪一方面满足了您对学习、社群和对未来的渴望，请具体聊聊您对未来的规划以及芝加哥大学能为您带来什么。
Question 2（必填，选择其中一项）1
In an ideal world where inter-species telepathic communication exists, which species would you choose to have a conversation with, and what would you want to learn from them? Would you ask beavers for architectural advice? Octopuses about cognition? Pigeons about navigation? Ants about governance? Make your case—both for the species and the question.
Inspired by Yvan Sugira, Class of 2029
在一个跨物种心灵感应存在的理想世界中，你会选择与哪个物种对话？你想从它们身上学到什么？你会向海狸请教建筑方面的建议吗？会向章鱼请教认知方面的建议吗？会向鸽子请教导航方面的建议吗？会向蚂蚁请教治理方面的建议吗？请提出你的观点——既要考虑物种本身，也要思考这个问题。
灵感来自 2029 届毕业生 Yvan Sugira
2、If you could uninvent one thing, what would it be — and what would unravel as a result?
Inspired by Eitan Fischer, Class of 2027
如果您可以取消发明一件事物，您会取消发明什么？结果又会怎样？
灵感来自 2027 届毕业生 Eitan Fischer
3、"Left" can mean remaining or departed. "Dust" can mean to add fine particles or to remove them. "Fast" can mean moving quickly or fixed firmly in place. These contronyms—words that are their own antonyms—somehow hold opposing meanings in perfect tension. Explore a contronym: a role, identity, or experience in your life that has contained its own opposite.
Inspired by Kristin Yi, Class of 2029
“Left” 可以表示残留或离开。“Dust” 可以表示添加或移除细小颗粒。“Fast” 可以表示快速移动或牢牢地固定在原地。这些词都有一个共同点，都有一个以上的含义，但是含义与含义之间却是完全相反的意思。请探索一个反义词：你生活中的角色、身份或经历，它本身就包含着对立面。
灵感来自 2029 届的毕业生 Kristin Yi
4、The penny is on its way out—too small to matter, too costly to keep. But not everything small should disappear. What’s one object the world is phasing out that you think we can’t afford to lose, and why?
Ella Somaiya, Class of 2028
一分钱硬币即将被淘汰——它太小，毫无意义，也太贵，难以保存。但并非所有小物件都应该消失。你认为世界上正在逐步淘汰的、我们最不能失去的物品是什么？为什么？
灵感来自2028届的毕业生 Ella Somaiya
5、From Michelin Tires creating the Michelin Guide, to the audio equipment company Audio-Technica becoming one of the world’s largest manufacturers of sushi robots, brand identity can turn out to be a lot more flexible than we think. Choose an existing brand, company, or institution and propose an unexpected but strangely logical new product or service for them to launch. Why is this unlikely extension exactly what the world (or the brand) needs right now?
Inspired by Julia Nieberg, Class of 2029
从米其林轮胎打造的《米其林指南》，到音响设备公司铁三角成为全球最大的寿司机器人制造商之一，品牌识别的灵活性远超乎我们的想象。选择一个现有的品牌、公司或机构，为他们设计一款出人意料却又合乎逻辑的新产品或新服务。为什么这种看似不可能的延伸恰恰是当今世界（或品牌）所需要的呢？
灵感来自 2029 届毕业生 Julia Nieberg
6、Statistically speaking, ice cream doesn’t cause shark attacks, pet spending doesn’t drive the number of lawyers in California, and margarine consumption isn’t responsible for Maine’s divorce rate—at least, not according to conventional wisdom. But what if the statisticians got it wrong? Choose your favorite spurious correlation and make the case for why it might actually reveal a deeper, causative truth.
Inspired by Adam DiMascio, Class of 2025
从统计学角度来看，冰淇淋不会导致鲨鱼袭击，宠物消费不会影响加州律师的数量，人造黄油消费也与缅因州的离婚率无关——至少，传统观念并非如此。但如果统计学家弄错了呢？选择你最喜欢的伪相关系数，并解释为什么它实际上可能揭示一个更深层次的因果真相。
灵感来自2025 届毕业生 Adam DiMascio
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