请教CHICAGO两个ESSAY

Essay 2: Choose one of the following questions. (500 word maximum)  

1. If the admissions committee were to interview one of your closest colleagues, what aspect of your personal development would this person say is especially important for the admissions committee to know? 

2. You have been asked to write an editorial about the most pressing issue facing humanity.  Please identify the issue and justify why you have selected it.

Thes are very different questions from last year and from many MBA application questions. Chicago seems to be returning to its creative essay roots. For years, it was unique in asking one straight-forward goals question and then two short, highly creative questions.

If you choose to answer #1, make sure you also include an example of the quality your "friend" chooses to discuss. Make sure you don't choose too broad a quality, like "leadership" or "analytical skills."  Your friend could choose "a good listener," and then use an example to show how your listening ability contributed to your leadership skills (as well as the ability to be a good friend.)

For #2, if you have a cause you feel passionate about (and have acted on behalf of) , then this could be a good essay topic for you. However,  don't be like the client whom I once interviewed. I asked him if he had an community service interests. He said, "Yes. Child abuse. Child abuse makes me really angry!" "OK," I responded, "Are you involved in any child advocacy groups." "No," he said, "I just listend to a talk show on the way over here and the host was talking to a child abuse victim. And it made me really angry."  If you feel passionately about something, and don't want to sound utterly hollow and silly, you will act on that passion.