Question 1. 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.
The University of Chicago has impressed me that they are a school that wants people to think. Not just think outside of the box, or think critically about obsolete or superfluous aspects, but rather make thinking the most intricate and important part of one's career, social aspects and their overall life. Famous philosophers like Immanuel Kant and René Descartes would consider thinking to be the only thing that makes us who we are, the thing that separates us from animals and the only thing we can truly rely on. "Cogito ergo sum" as Rene would say. I think therefore I am .That being the case I've always been someone who has thought about and then sought to answer seemingly unanswerable questions. One of the reasons that I have chosen Quantum physics/mechanics and Neuroanatomy as subjects I would to pursue in college is because of the vast unanswered questions they continue to elicit. There seems to never be an end to the realms of space and the particles that make it up, much like their seems to never be an end to the possibilities the human brain holds. I feel both obligated and driven to pursue these fields in college but while also learning other subjects like how an industry works, or how Pangaea was formed. U of C seems to share this common interest with me and thousands of other students applying which is why your crest reads in English translation "to grow knowledge more and more therefore the life can be enriched."
That being the case University of Chicago has shown that although knowledge is the supreme ruler, fun related activities, social campus life and academic courses can still maintain their purpose without losing sight of the overall goal. A well rounded way to life. At an institution like this I could be a fencer a mathematician and a hip hop artist all while repainting the school of Athens! I want to attend this institution to aggrandize on the skills needed to break the classical notions of science while expounding upon juxtapositions, notions and ideas, while also debating with genius professors and fastidious students alike. This is not just to enrich my mind but to enrich the world around me and branch out with my new found skills to diverse areas and share and discuss my ideas worth theirs. I want to be a part of the myriad of individuals, (that have come through the university and that haven't) that have made it their duty not to make the world not a "better place" but rather a "thinking place". University of Chicago has made it clear that it can satisfy these desires of their students while still keeping them level-headed, magnanimous, and realistic. Your academic program is a rigorous one and with the goals and big dreams that your students have, it's rather axiomatic that an individual will have to work hard and possibly struggle in order to achieve their aspirations and goals. However, that seems to be the fun of it all. Cramming for exams and stressing about finals is made fun at U of C because you have molded your students to be passionate about "asking big questions, break disciplinary boundaries, and challenging conventional thinking in virtually every field." So University of Chicago has satisfied my desire for a particular learning in that your school has made itself a living embodiment of this quote by Wolfgang von Goethe.
"The greatest happiness of a thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored."
