申请University of Chicago本科的Essays

y. I believe that a man who can live his life like Captain Martin is the happiest one in this world.<BR>To develop this year's extended essay options, we emailed current Chicagostudents and students admitted to the Class of 2012 and asked them fortopics. We received several hundred responses, many of which wereeloquent, intriguing, or downright wacky. As you can see by theattributions, three of the questions below were inspired by submissionsfrom your peers.</P> <P>Essay Option 1.How did you get caught? (Or not caught, as the case may be.)<BR>Inspired by Kelly Kennedy, a fourth-year in the College.</P> <P>Everyone was unsatisfied with our monitor, Cao. My friends said that he was too timid to make a decision and unaware of our needs. Some suggested that I took place of him because I was a friend with everyone and they are willing to support me, but I laughed and refused. I just showed my outright disdain, but I won’t bother replacing him. I embarrassed him every time, and our class was in a funny mess. I would make it agonizing for him to stay on, yet impossible to resign.</P> <P>On December 27th, 2007, my sixteenth birthday, we went to an auditorium for a concert in the afternoon. Cao told us to have lunch at school, arrive there by 1:30, and Ms Wang, our teacher, would be waiting there. However, my friends said they wanted to go out. “It’s your birthday. Let’s go somewhere else. Why should we listen to him?”</P> <P>I laughed and agreed.</P> <P>Finally, we went to a pizza restaurant. Surprisingly, Cao came with us. He sat at the same table though hardly anybody spoke to him. At last, I said, “Since you have come, let’s eat together.”</P> <P>I was happy because I had “summoned him to surrender”. We enjoyed the cake, the pizza and talked about our brotherhood. However, our triumphing air was halted when we finished the meal and discovered that it was already 1:15! Looking at the seat of Cao, he had disappeared, at some time, without noticed by anyone! We harried to the auditorium in panic. I knew the end had come when I spotted Ms Wang standing right at the doorway with an accusing bomb in her eyes, and Cao standing beside her, snickering: apparently he betrayed us. I was fooled; we got caught.</P> <P>That day, Ms Wang talked a lot with me. She asked me why I insisted on breaking the rules and also led others to do so. “You are influential in the class. I will feel hard to manage everything if you take the lead to break the rules. Have you ever thought what I shall do if you do whatever you like and other boys too? I know you are not satisfied with the monitor, but I hope you can think of ways to solve the problem, not to make more trouble to show your discontentment.”</P> <P>I went home alone that day. Ms Wang’s words echoed again and again in my mind. I calmed down, and rethought what I had done all this days. I had always considered myself as a leader of the students, but was I? Is being a leader just like creating a mess in the class with my friends? A true leader should at least take his responsibility.</P> <P>Finally, I entered our class election and became the monitor. Actually, that job was not easy. I once had a prejudice over Cao because of his “inability”, but the truth was that I didn’t understand unless I was at his position. My prejudice is not because of misunderstanding, but refusing to calm down and think about the problem objectively. I won’t blame anyone easily any more.</P> <P>I was ashamed when I recalled my image in those days: pretentious, narrow minded, and so childish that to regard myself as a “Godfather”. My self-righteous “tactic” is just insignificant skill used by playing kids. I have grown up. Let’s learn to be sincere and simple, instead of dreaming about those childish