＂从校园即兴表演到幽默杂志＜阴暗处的交易者＞再到著名的哈曼塔什烙饼辩论（我也不知道这是啥...），在芝加哥大学，我们非常严肃地对待幽默。（而且我们在1959年在校友的帮助下建立了著名的喜剧剧院＂第二城＂。）给我们讲一个你最喜欢的笑话，解释它，但不要毁了它。Essay Option 2 In a famous quote by José Ortega y Gasset, the Spanish philosopher proclaims, "Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia" (1914). José Quintans, master of the Biological Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago, sees it another way: "Yo soy yo y mi microbioma" (2012).-Maria Viteri, Class of 2016 西班牙哲学家José Ortega y Gasset说过一句著名的话＂我是我和我所在的环境。＂ 芝加哥大学生物科学部的硕士José Quintans用另一种方法来看待这句话：＂我是我和我的微生物群。＂Essay Option 3 "This is what history consists of. It's the sum total of all the things they aren't telling us."-- Don DeLillo,Libra.-Amy Estersohn, Class of 2010 ＂这就是历史的组成。它是所有他们没有告诉我们的事的总和。＂Essay Option 4（就是皮皮虾那个！） 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.Seriously, how cool is the mantis-Tess Moran, Class of 2016 皮皮虾可以看到偏振光和多谱线的图像；它们有着世界上动物界最复杂的眼睛。人类的眼睛有红绿蓝三种感光细胞；皮皮虾有十六种，这让他们能看到远超出人类大脑处理能力的光谱范围。我是认真的：皮皮虾有多酷mantisshrimp.uchicago.edu。Essay Option 5 How are apples and oranges supposed to be compared? Possible answers involve, but are not limited to, statistics, chemistry, physics, linguistics, and philosophy.那啥，等我用电脑了再翻译一下……
