1. In Chicago, water is both obvious and often overlooked. We live near this immense body of fresh water, Lake Michigan, and the Chicago River flows through the city--it was even reversed to flow out of the lake. We depend on the lake for drinking water, for recreation of many kinds, and to make Lake Shore Drive what it is--as Sarah Vowell says, the most beautiful street in America. But it's also possible to get caught up in life and in less watery neighborhoods or suburbs and forget that all that water is there. We're frequently reminded that we are made up of (salt) water ourselves and that life began in the oceans. What's your relationship with water? How important to you is swimming it it, drinking it, bathing in it, looking at it, cleaning the car with it, washing the dog with it, etc. etc? Do you notice when we have a drought? Do you worry about the future of drinking water? Do you have any spiritual connection with water? What about rain? What else do you do with water?
2. When you get accepted at Columbia, what is one way that you will stand out from the rest of the students and why? How do you plan on making that happen?
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