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Category: Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle

University of Chicago Essay Prompts for 2015-2016: Crazy and Crazier

July 10, 2015

Or not. I like U Chi’s approach to essays and appreciate the challenge they throw down, and even if their prompts are sometimes pretentiously self aware of cleverness more than they are truly clever, they do open a window of fresh air into the stale halls of the college application essay. If you need some…
University of Chicago Application Essay Prompt Two: You Wanna Schroedinger’s Cat? I Got A Schroedinger’s Cat.

July 17, 2012

If the title of this post on Chicago’s application essay, prompt two, seems obscure, let’s first take a look at the prompt itself: Essay Option 2. Heisenberg claims that you cannot know both the position and momentum of an electron with total certainty. Choose two other concepts that cannot be known simultaneously and discuss the…