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Mrs. Fry always said that the University of Chicago had the hardest essay questions. So I decided to see for myself.
There were 2 mandatory questions that seemed unoriginal. Then there were 5 questions and the applicant is to choose one of the five. The one that I thought was amazing and that really got me thinking was essay option 4:
The Cartesian coordinate system is a popular method of representing real numbers and is the bane of eighth graders everywhere. Since its introduction by Descartes in 1637, this means of visually characterizing mathematicl values has swept the globe, earning a significant role in branches of mathematics such as algebera, geometry, and calculus. Describe yourself as a point or series of points on this axial arrangement. If you are a function, what are you? In which quadrants do you lie? Are x and y enough for you, or do you warrant some love from the z-axis? Be sure to include your domain, range, derivative, and asymptotes, should any apply. Your possibilities are positively and negatively unbounded.
Mind-boggling, eh?
I thought about this a few minutes and I came to the conclusion that I'd be an x=y graph. What a beautiful graph.
So my question to you is what kind of graph are you? I don't want a 1 to 2 page paper, unlike the people at Chicago.
There were 2 mandatory questions that seemed unoriginal. Then there were 5 questions and the applicant is to choose one of the five. The one that I thought was amazing and that really got me thinking was essay option 4:
The Cartesian coordinate system is a popular method of representing real numbers and is the bane of eighth graders everywhere. Since its introduction by Descartes in 1637, this means of visually characterizing mathematicl values has swept the globe, earning a significant role in branches of mathematics such as algebera, geometry, and calculus. Describe yourself as a point or series of points on this axial arrangement. If you are a function, what are you? In which quadrants do you lie? Are x and y enough for you, or do you warrant some love from the z-axis? Be sure to include your domain, range, derivative, and asymptotes, should any apply. Your possibilities are positively and negatively unbounded.
Mind-boggling, eh?
I thought about this a few minutes and I came to the conclusion that I'd be an x=y graph. What a beautiful graph.
So my question to you is what kind of graph are you? I don't want a 1 to 2 page paper, unlike the people at Chicago.