Cool things:
1. 5.13 talked about normal modes of molecular orbital theory in class Friday - we've been doing stuff with normal modes pretty much the entire semester of 8.03 so far, so it made me happy that my completely unrelated classes overlapped!
2. I feel like there was something else I liked about classes that I wanted to remember, but too late, because I don't remember it now.
3. Got an interesting email forward (
not from uncle reggie...lol) about Worship and Work By Os Hillman
October 30
"One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike" (Rom 14:5).
Avodah (Ah´-voe-dah) is a Hebrew noun used in the Bible that has two distinct yet intertwined meanings: worship and work. It is also derived from the Hebrew verb L'Avod which has two meanings; to work and also to worship. The dual meaning offers powerful wisdom for modern times for how we are to view our work lives.
Work, if done with integrity and unto God, is a form of worship in the biblical Hebrew context. There has never been a concept of segmenting our work from our faith life in the Bible. It is in the realm of the sacred to bring God into our everyday life. Hebrews did not set aside a "day of worship," such as Saturday or Sunday, but everyday is a place and time of worship. They did set aside a Sabbath day of rest.
It is a western idea to segment one's faith life from our work like. In the Middle East and Asia, their cultures would never separate their faith from their work life even though their faith foundations might clearly contradict Christian beliefs. When someone comes to faith in Christ from this area of the world, they have an easier time of assimilating their faith into their work because they have always done so.
God calls us to do our work as an act of worship to Him. Our work is not to be a place of sweat and toil, but an expression of our love, faith and adoration of Jesus Christ. Today, before you work, ask God to help you see your work in a new way as worship to Him.4. It is November.
5. In the past 24 hours, I rowed with two boats I've never been on - the top varsity boat and then our novice team's, both times because people were sick. So i got to see where i fit in, between the really-set-and-really-fast and the really-tipsy-but-not-that-slow. The fact that i like rowing, and reading, and chinese, and writing, etc. always makes me wonder yet again - why MIT?? But there's no time to worry about silly things like that. I need to study for my 5.13 test (which is at noon tomorrow).
6. I love living on the Charles. (& waking up with the sunrises) How can can we not stand in awe and worship a God who makes this possible:
If they made a puzzle out of those, I'd buy it. =P