477-word version: Carnegie Mellon – Japanese
...Ever since understanding this doctrine, I have been convinced that learning and studying language is an essential endeavor...

474-word version: Emory – Japanese
...Ever since understanding this doctrine, I have been convinced that learning and studying language is an essential endeavor...

367-word version: U of North Carolina-Chapel Hill – Japanese
...Ever since understanding this doctrine, I have been convinced that learning and studying language is an essential endeavor...

Answer one of the following questions. Limit your response to half a page, or approximately 250 words. Please clearly indicate which question you have chosen by typing the question at the top of your response. And please use the space bar instead of the tab key to create paragraph indentations:

a) What is your favorite word, and why?
b) Describe the world you come from and how that world shaped who you are.
c) Discuss something you secretly like but pretend not to or vice versa.
d) What issue of local, national, or international significance concerns you? Why?
e) "We might say that we were looking for global schemas, symmetries, universal and unchanging laws--and what we have discovered is the mutable, the ephemeral, the complex." Support or challenge Nobel Prize winner Ilya Prigogine`s assertion.

384-word version: U of Virginia – Language
A “word” is my most adored word, for it is the most basic composite of a language...

269-word version: U of Michigan – Language
...Ever since understanding this doctrine, I have been convinced that learning and studying language is an essential endeavor...

992-character version (out of 1000 character limit): Northwestern – Language
...Ever since understanding this doctrine, I have been convinced that learning and studying languages is an essential endeavor...