<p>So, I'm applying to University of Chicago and as those who have applied to University of Chicago know, they offer about 4 or 5 essay weird topics to choose from. Fortunately, one of them was something that actually fit me well. Now, while working on my first draft (which I started tonight, I know, I'm horrible), I realized that maybe I could stop here and just edit the rest. It's a very short essay but it's over the 250 word line, and I think it answers the prompt well. What do you think?</p>
<p>Here's the prompt. I made the actual question bold.</p>
<p>Essay Option 4. From game theory to Ultimate Frisbee to the great Chicago Scavenger Hunt, we at the University of Chicago take games seriously. We bet you do, too. Even if "just a game," sport, play, and other kinds of games seem to share at the very least an insistence that we take seriously a set of rules entirely peculiar to the circumstance of the game. You might say, in order to play a game we must take it seriously. Think playfully - or play thoughtfully - about games: how they distract us or draw us into the world, create community and competition, tease us and test us with stakes both set apart from and meaningful to everyday life. Don't tell us about The Big Game; rather, tell us about players and games.</p>
<p>Click! A black stone is loudly placed on a square wooden board featuring a grid, nineteen squares long and nineteen squares wide. The move plunges me deep in thought. I give my opponent a look that declared my victory to which my opponent met with a rebellious glance that demanded proof. My mind races through the paths that lead me to victory and endeavors to search the roads that stem from them. Possible moves are discarded and introduced in rapid succession and I decide upon a move. I slam my stone with a ferocity commensurate to that of my opponent’s, hoping to intimidate his resignation, but it has little effect, or if it did, then it is well-hidden. My opponent places his move while the dust from mine is still settling. But in his haste, he makes a mistake. Smiling viciously, I strike at his weakness and he soon realizes his error. Ever obstinate, he defends firmly. As the match progresses however, my countenance grows ever brighter while his sinks into melancholy; his eventual defeat becoming increasingly apparent. Distraught, he resigns. Thus ends a game of Go.</p>
<p>A smile returns to Eric Cotsen’s face as he extends a hand to congratulate me. I shake his hand firmly and we banter about the game, Eric not neglecting to point out my mistakes while I accepting his possible win with a playfully mischievous smile. In the exchange of stones, we had formed a bond that was deeper than any that could have been made with an equally lengthy exchange of words. It was the sort of camaraderie that only developed between two people who have engaged each other in a fierce competition – a rivalry.</p>
<p>Though I wouldn't mind it at all, I'm not really looking for grammar/spelling corrections. I want to know if it's a good essay by itself, answering the prompt and whatnot, or whether I should elaborate on it.</p>
Oh well, I’m going to end for the night and get some sleep. Maybe we can both get some inspiration as we dream! ^^</p>
At least it is only my first draft.</p>
But the chances of someone stealing it is slim.</p>