I’ve never gotten along well with electronic paper clips. For as long as I’ve been typing, the ever-charming Office Assistant has been nagging me with dashed red lines. We Anglo-saxons created this language full of abstract and exquisite concepts, yet somehow managed to horribly mismanage spelling. The better part of the dictionary neglects phonics, and even worse, the book’s writers made few attempts to correlate spelling with meaning. For such an artful language, English lacks creativity. “You...

Prompt: Winston Churchill believed "a joke is a very serious thing." From Off-Off Campus’s improvisations to the Shady Dealer humor magazine to the renowned Latke-Hamantash debate, we take humor very seriously here at The University of Chicago. Tell us your favorite joke and try to explain the joke without ruining it. For as long as the earth has been pulling things towards it, a number of those things have been fruit. Legend has it that one afternoon in the 160...

It would be easy to write about how the universe has fascinated me since I could point and gurgle at the Discovery Channel. This would be an enormous lie. While it’s true that I was born with a flair for the scientific - in preschool, I’d tell anyone who would listen how badly I wanted to be a paleontologist - the exquisite beauty of reality gradually faded from my interests as I progressed through school. I was drawn...

When interviewing, the most important thing to do is to find some common ground with the alumnus you're talking to. I had an interview for a school I didn't end up attending with a history professor...

I was initially wait-listed at two schools, frustratingly my top two choices. I sent one school a scan of the business plan for my SAGE team and the other a long, semi-angry letter of continued intent explaining...

I wish I had chosen a school that was a better fit for me, rather than jumping the gun and accepting the offer of admission of the best-ranked school that let me in before May 1st. My school, while it never fails to impress older...

I am interesting. This is a lofty and sort of weird self-assessment to make on the internet, but it's true for everyone. Applicants come from all sorts of places and backgrounds, and by owning and embracing yours, you are interesting. ...

To be honest, work. College is really, REALLY expensive, and you probably won't realize that until you get your first bill. It doesn't end...