Admissions Essay: Comment on: “At present you need to live the question.” –Rainer Maria Rilke, translated from the German by Joan M. Burnham
By Robert J. Zimmer (U of Chicago)
Robert Zimmer discusses what it means to live the question – to look at the world with wonder. The key to living the question (according to Zimmer): challenge your assumptions, question others and listen. Read more from his Wall Street Journal essay.
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Robert Zimmer is a mathematician and former provost of Brown University. He is the current president of the University of Chicago.
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