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Как известно, при поступлении в американские колледжи и университеты требуется написать эссе, раскрывающее личность студента, его опыт, взгляды на жизнь, активную позицию, интересы и планы на будущее. Эссе – пожалуй, самая затратная с точки зрения времени и идей часть пакета документов в американский университет. Иногда университеты, пытаясь усложнить студентам задачу, придумывают необычные, а порой и откровенно неожиданные темы для эссе. Университет Чикаго бьет все рекорды по изобретательности в темах эссе. Посмотрим подборку таких тем от этого и некоторых других американских ВУЗов.
(фото кампуса University of Chicago)
Brandeis University
«If you could choose to be raised by robots, dinosaurs, or aliens, who would you pick? Why?»
University of Pennsylvania
«You have just finished your three hundred page autobiography. Please submit page 217.»
University of Chicago
The mantis shrimp can perceive both polarized light and multispectral images; they have the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom. Human eyes have color receptors for three colors (red, green, and blue); the mantis shrimp has receptors for sixteen types of color, enabling them to see a spectrum far beyond the capacity of the human brain. What might they be able to see that we cannot? What are we missing?
Lehigh University
“You’ve just reached your one millionth hit on your YouTube video. What is the video about?”
Texas Christian University
“Take a blank sheet of paper. Do with this page what you wish. Your only limitations are the boundaries of this page. You don’t have to submit anything, but we hope you will use your imagination.”
Wake Forest University
“Some say social media is superficial, with no room for expressing deep or complex ideas. We challenge you to defy these skeptics by describing yourself as fully and accurately as possible in the 140-character limit of a tweet.”
Brandeis University
What one invention would you uninvent if you could, and why?
University of Chicago
Little pigs, french hens, a family of bears. Blind mice, musketeers, the Fates. Parts of an atom, laws of thought, a guideline for composition. Omne trium perfectum? Create your own group of threes, and describe why and how they fit together.
New York University
Write a haiku, limerick, or short poem that best represents you.
University of Chicago
How do you feel about Wednesday?
Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley
If any of these three inanimate objects could talk, how would your room, computer or car describe you?
Johns Hopkins University
«Using a piece of wire, a Hopkins car window sticker, an egg carton and any inexpensive hardware store item, create something that would solve a problem. Tell us about your creation, but don’t worry; we won’t require proof that it works!»
University of Virginia
Make a bold prediction about something in the year 2020 that no one else has made a bold prediction about.
Bennington College
Design an experiment that attempts to determine whether toads can hear. Provide the rationale for your design-explain your reasons for setting up the experiment as you did.