The Utah State University Honors Program admits students based on application. Students are asked to write an essay based on ONE of the questions that follow. Please write a 500-word essay in Word or another program and copy it into the space provided.

1. You return to your room in the residence hall next fall, and on the floor just outside the door, you find a hard hat, a copy of The Complete Works of Shakespeare, and one additional object. In addition to revealing the identity of the third object, explain how the hard had, the book, and the third object got there and their significance.

2. What is the big question you like to think about or the most important issue you would like to engage while you are at USU? Why do you think this issue is important, and why should you study it? What kinds of knowledge and skills do you think you will need to further and deepen your study of this big question? This is not so much about an academic field or discipline, nor is it about your long-range plans; rather, we want to know about what intrigues you most deeply.

3. Wouldn't it be interesting if...