Hello University of Chicago reader. I appreciate the time you all at the admissions office have taken to reach out to kids like me. To be honest, I’m writing this during the gaudy presentation my school hosts for cap and gown, run by an independent company. Flashes of jewelry imprinted with a metal number 18 on it are gracing the screen on the auditorium stage, and the cloaked (metaphorically) salesman speaks of the beauty of the rings bonding with the importance of remembering the past. The opportunities that I’ve had in high school, along with the community I’ve been in, are important to me, but I doubt buying a 3000$ ruby ring with ‘CDS’ carved into it would assist me in learning from my four years of experience. As warped words flow through a state-of-the-art-in-2006 sound system, I can’t help but look to the future.
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I’ve lived in a suburb area of Chandler since I was born, and my schools have all been within 5 minutes of me. It takes about 25 minutes to get to downtown, and even then, there’s not much for me to do as even a high schooler. University of Chicago, to me, represents the birth of a new experience for me. The city atmosphere, as advertised extensively in the promotional material, is entirely diverse and different for me, and I’d love to envelop myself in the smells, textures and images of Chicago. Also important for me is the diversity of culture; from the tiny “The Life of the Mind” book that I got in the mail, I saw all the majors, all the houses, all the clubs, and since then they’ve been swirling around in my head. I need options wherever I’m going because I have a lot of interests and I don’t feel comfortable tying myself down to one major before I’ve even tried it in
I’ve lived in a suburb area of Chandler since I was born, and my schools have all been within 5 minutes of me. It takes about 25 minutes to get to downtown, and even then, there’s not much for me to do as even a high schooler. University of Chicago, to me, represents the birth of a new experience for me. The city atmosphere, as advertised extensively in the promotional material, is entirely diverse and different for me, and I’d love to envelop myself in the smells, textures and images of Chicago. Also important for me is the diversity of culture; from the tiny “The Life of the Mind” book that I got in the mail, I saw all the majors, all the houses, all the clubs, and since then they’ve been swirling around in my head. I need options wherever I’m going because I have a lot of interests and I don’t feel comfortable tying myself down to one major before I’ve even tried it in