<p>I have less than a week to polish off my 1-page essay--anyone willing to donate their time and comments to a desperate cause? I'm trying to get as many opinions as possible.</p>
<p>According to UChicago...</p>
<p>This is your chance to speak to us and our chance to listen as you tell us about yourself, your tastes, and your ambitions. Each topic can be addressed with utter seriousness, complete fancy, or something in betweenit's your choice. Play, analyze (don't agonize), create, composelet us hear the result of your thinking about something that interests you, in a voice that is your own. </p>
<p>I picked the prompt below...</p>
<p>Essay Option 4
Superstring theory has revolutionized speculation about the physical world by suggesting that strings play a pivotal role in the universe. Strings, however, always have explained or enriched our lives, from Theseus's escape route from the Labyrinth, to kittens playing with balls of yarn, to the single hair that held the sword above Damocles, to the basic awfulness of string cheese, to the Old Norse tradition that one's life is a thread woven into a tapestry of fate, to the beautiful sounds of the finely tuned string of a violin, to the children's game of cat's cradle, to the concept of stringing someone along. Use the power of string to explain the biggest or the smallest phenomenon.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>