<p>Hey Lightbright! It’s kind of funny because I wrote it exactly how you did. I made a metaphor of the streets to the stars. Except, I kind of undermined prompt #2 in the essay.
HAHA when i read what you did i was like WHOA!</p>
<p>I also put a quote of Jim Lovell, but I hope they didn’t get confused with that quote and the prompt.</p>
<p>I did the particle accelerator. I really liked it, it was kind of sci-fi ish with a mix of some Goosebumps and something else. Kind of a new world, but with some interesting twists and relation to higgs-boson particles and some other stuffage.</p>
<p>And I wrote about my favorite holiday, Halloween, and eventually emailed my counselor a picture of my Halloween costume (it was awesome this year!!!)</p>
<p>edmandoo: I’ll post my essay here later, maybe. Basically, I wrote about walking down my street one night, and thinking. Free flowing thoughts. Looking at the sky and realizing that what I see may not be there. And then wondering if I could, if I looked hard enough, see remnants of the Big Bang. (after all, time in the Universe is not constant). I then pondered what was before the Big Bang and somehow related that to Pandora’s Box. I then ended it with returning home, with “the stars whispering their secrets to each other, but not to me.”</p>
<p>i wrote the optional essay on penn warren’s “all the king’s men”, e.e. cummings’s “anyone lived in a pretty how town”, dvorak’s “symphony from the new world”, and the font cambria. it’s actually REALLY long. i hope university of chicago doesn’t hate me for it.</p>
<p>i’m writing my extended essay on prompt three, the road one. i’m writing about what it was like being on the honors track at my high school and my decision to drop out of the honors science track my junior year and what led to that decision. it’s most a satire of standard suburban honors students (or more of the ones i’ve seen), and what a relief it was to deal with the raw, honest students of a regular physics class. maybe a little elitist, but really honest at the same time. i love it.</p>
<p>and the “why uofc?” one… it doesn’t really exist yet. :)</p>
<p>Yeah I liked the devil’s advocate one. Who knows, they may use it as one of their prompts next year!</p>
<p>And my why essay was really creative and wacky. I think they’re either really like it, or really… not. My college counselor thought ti was really good and would really help my personality stand out, my English teacher wouldn’t even correct it because he didn’t think I should send it, probably because it wasn’t traditional enough. Let’s hope they like it…</p>
<p>Mistuhhh! Light Bright:
I don’t think that’s a good idea because people who apply RD may be inspired by your writing 
(But if you really feel proud of your essay and you wish to post it then I can’t stop yah!)</p>
<p>Haha luckily I didn’t mention the Big Bang (because then an admissions officer might have had to read about two big bangs), and you seem very willing to show what you got man ;)</p>
<p>I answered the essay prompt concerning a street. I wrote about Niederdorf strasse in Zurich where I live and used the street and its culture as a metaphor for both Zurich and myself. I though it was pretty good. For the optional essay I talked about James Jean, an artist who does the cover art for the Fables comic series and has won something like 4 Eisner awards. My admissions counselor thought my optional essay was great so I am hoping for the best. On a side note, is there anyone else on this forum applying to UChicago who is European?</p>
<p>particle accelerator!!!</p>
<p>question #3~</p>
<p>I’m not European, but for my foreign language I chose German, so I know Strasse means street, if that counts for anything XD</p>
<p>I wrote on the first prompt: live the question one. :D</p>
<p>I’m awesome.</p>
<p>edmandoo: Stop flirting with me. It’s sending mixed messages, and I feel violated.</p>
<p>On a serious note, thanks. I thought it was trippy, and the admissions officers will be like,“d00d dis kid use teh drugz!” but it was sooo good. ;-; At least to me. idk. Maybe I’m wrong.</p>
<p>It’s pretty cool that we did similar things, but they’re different at the same time. Doppelganger?</p>
<p>I didn’t do the optional, and then I did the zoom in/zoom out on my experience at a week-long intensive choir course at National Cathedral in D.C. I was really proud of that essay. I tried to convey the reason why I sing in a church choir (since it’s definitely not because I’m devout). It sounds kinda lame but my english teacher and my former choir director loved it and I guess the admissions people did too, since I got accepted…</p>
<p>My ‘Why Chicago’ essay, however, was terrible. Maybe my extended one made up for it, I dunno. :)</p>
<p>I did #3 about the road. My road is a metaphorical neural pathway, tracing the “job” of a blue-collar nerve impulse during a “workday” (think one single movement in a human body)</p>
<p>I didn’t do ED though; I’m doing RD. From what I hear, Chicago values creativity and unconvention, so I’m just having some fun with their essays.</p>
<p>I also did the street one, I wrote about my reading Harry Potter as if it were a street and made it an extended metaphor for my intellectual, social, and emotional maturity (maturing? maturation?). I think that it was one of my better college essays.</p>
<p>Though I must say, I LOVE the idea of a devil’s advocate essay.</p>
<p>When I first started writing, I could not decide on a prompt so I brainstormed and wrote all of them. Eventually, I chose Prompt 2. The essay started with a zoom in on me shaking Madeleine Albright’s hand during the DNC. I wrote it from the perspective of an actual camera panning the world. It zoomed out to show the diversity and the energy of politics and social activism. While the camera zoomed in and out time was passing so when it zoomed back in the square was empty except for a poster from Barack Obama.</p>