推選答案＂從校園即興表演到幽默雜志＜陰暗處的交易者＞再到著名的哈曼塔什烙餅辯論（我也不知道這是啥...），在芝加哥大學，我們非常嚴肅地對待幽默。（而且我們在1959年在校友的幫助下建立了著名的喜劇劇院＂第二城＂。）給我們講一個你最喜歡的笑話，解釋它，但不要毀了它。Essay Option 2 In a famous quote by José Ortega y Gasset, the Spanish philosopher proclaims, "Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia" (1914). José Quintans, master of the Biological Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago, sees it another way: "Yo soy yo y mi microbioma" (2012).-Maria Viteri, Class of 2016 西班牙哲學家José Ortega y Gasset說過一句著名的話＂我是我和我所在的環(huán)境。＂ 芝加哥大學生物科學部的碩士José Quintans用另一種方法來看待這句話：＂我是我和我的微生物群。＂Essay Option 3 "This is what history consists of. It's the sum total of all the things they aren't telling us."-- Don DeLillo,Libra.-Amy Estersohn, Class of 2010 ＂這就是歷史的組成。它是所有他們沒有告訴我們的事的總和。＂Essay Option 4（就是皮皮蝦那個?。?The mantis shrimp can perceive both polarized light and multispectral images; they have the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom. Human eyes have color receptors for three colors (red, green, and blue); the mantis shrimp has receptors for sixteen types of color, enabling them to see a spectrum far beyond the capacity of the human brain.Seriously, how cool is the mantis-Tess Moran, Class of 2016 皮皮蝦可以看到偏振光和多譜線的圖像；它們有著世界上動物界最復雜的眼睛。人類的眼睛有紅綠藍三種感光細胞；皮皮蝦有十六種，這讓他們能看到遠超出人類大腦處理能力的光譜范圍。我是認真的：皮皮蝦有多酷mantisshrimp.uchicago.edu。Essay Option 5 How are apples and oranges supposed to be compared? Possible answers involve, but are not limited to, statistics, chemistry, physics, linguistics, and philosophy.那啥，等我用電腦了再翻譯一下……