My kindergarten class usually looked like this: fifteen happy kids doing crafts and then me, sitting among them, enthusiastically completing math worksheets. Although I am a lifelong math-lover, a recent experience demonstrated to me that numbers only scratch the surface of a complete understanding of the world. Before going on the March of the Living, a two-week educational trip to Poland and Israel for Jewish teenagers, I knew all about the numbers. Seventeen million - the number of people murdered...

René Descartes, the famous French philosopher, mathematician, and writer (and a true interdisciplinary thinker), wrote three words which embody the reason I am attracted to the University of Chicago: “Cogito ergo sum” (in English: I think, therefore I am). Descartes used this phrase to justify his theory that the only thing a person can be certain of is his or her own existence. However, when I first heard it in Latin class and then in Politics, I thought of something...

Essay Option 1: "A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies." -Oscar Wilde. Othello and Iago. Dorothy and the Wicked Witch. The Autobots and the Decepticons. History and art are full of heroes and their enemies. Tell us about the relationshi