Chapel Series
Long time no see
We haven’t seen each other for some time. I know. I originally planned to share my Spring Break experiences but I accidentally deleted some of my diary entries, which is frustrating. But I still keep some entries and all photos, as well as my detailed travel plan. Maybe I will still be able to share it, who knows~
Anyway, hope this weekly routine will be back to normal, and hope you still enjoy this dull, tardy, unorganized half-journal, half-blog weird things.
2024.3.26
To be honest, this is my most confused chapel talk, So if you still remember anything, welcome to remind me and I will update the content.
Today we had a guest talk in the chapel, and the guest talked about what ordinary people’s life like during important historical periods like the Civil War. Since people can’t predict the future, their lives are full of both big and small things. And while the guest was talking, people were sleepy, laughing, or doing some small movements. You ask what I was doing? I won’t tell u.
And it reminds me about a classic debate: who drives the progress of history: heroes or ordinary people?
2024.4.2
Well, today we had two guest speakers, one from Yard and another from MIT, and they talked about being open. Even if BTA is already a pretty diverse community, but we still need to be open to outside world, such as people with different religions, different backgrounds, and so on. In my summer program, for example, there are people from the US, China, Detroit, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Kazakhstan, South Korea, India, etc. And it is also important to be open to different subjects, like if you are good at humanities, it doesn’t mean you can give up science. Instead, the future of mankind also needs people that can do both humanities and math work.
2024.4.9
Today we had the chapel talk from a professor at Boston University, and he talked about how to get along with people who are different from us. So basically he has a two-week school that welcomes everyone to come in, and there are Muslims, Christians; Africans, and Americans. He says that having different beliefs does not matter in terms of doing things together. Just like in The Merchant of Venice, Shylock can make deals with Antonio but never eat with him; two people can each think the other one will go to hell but go to hospital together (that is the original speech from the professor, not said by me). And when one and another get along and do things together, time will gradually make these differences less sharp, even if one supports Israel and one supports Palestine (bc he is a Jew).