<p>is anyone doing the first one? living the question prompt?
or the street thing?</p>
<p>for the living the question one,
do we have to just describe what we think the quote means?</p>
<p>and for the street prompt,
we just have to literally tell a story about a street of our own choice?
it does not have to be a street in chicago, right?</p>
<p>i don't even get what those prompts mean.</p>
<p>These prompts are meant to be open-ended and vague. Interpret them how you want to. If they were meant to be interpreted a certain way, then instructions on how to interpret them would be attached.</p>
<p>The mystic quotes seem to be a big hit with the admissions office. My year, it was "mind that does not sick." Doubleyou tee eff? My friends took that same prompt and ran with it in different directions, ranging from talking about a learning disorder to talking about frog dissections.</p>
<p>... and if the Chicago questions continue to frustrate you and you can't make progress on them, put them aside and come back to them later. You may find after writing other essays that you have ideas on how to answer the questions.... or you may decide applying to Chicago isn't worth it.</p>
<p>Welcome to UChicago.</p>
<p>For the street one, I was writing the story about a person named Ellis Rhode (even though Chicago is on ellis ave.... oh well). </p>
<p>i got really into it before i decided that there was no way i could get all the information I wanted into a short essay (I was going to give myself a 2000 word limit, even though thats a huge essay, i thought it would give me enough room to work with). about 1300 words in, i decided i was nowhere close to finished, and decided to drop it.</p>
<p>i just thought that this would give you some idea as to where the prompts can go. i think if i could've gotten it done, the adcoms would have liked it, but it wasn't worth the work for me (i don't normally write fiction, anyway).</p>