Scary Tails and College Essays

Scary Tails and College Essays Introducing the worlds first-ever* joint MIT admissions blog post! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears. *Backed by absolutely no research or factual evidence. Also, Happy Halloween, everybody! Cam: First, we have a Halloween story. There are two things scary on Halloween: college applications and cats. College application cats. Also, last night we discovered a new qualification for becoming an MIT admissions blogger: you must be scared of the dark. Bold, courageous students need not apply. Last night, after the requisite parties, pumpkin drop (pumpkins falling from the tallest building in Cambridge always a fun event), and various other shenanigans, I met up with Anna and the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led us to Wayland, my small, moderately nowhere-ish hometown. Surprise discovery: nostalgia isnt nearly as enjoyable when youre talking about scary movies on a cold, dark Halloween night. Anna: Now, picture this: Cam and I, in a car, in your stereotypical scary movie setting. An intersection in middle-of-nowhere suburbia, at 3am. Power lines and a small rickety corner store. The headlights fell on a cute little kitty who jumped off the front porch and padded down the sidewalk â€" so, appropriately, I squealed “CUTE KITTY” and pointed. As Cam glanced over, the cute little kitty snapped its head around and two evil, glowing orange eyes fell on us. I am not making this up. Glowing orange. There was no doubt that they were pure evil. Cue the following dialogue: Cam: GAAAAHHHHHHHHHH Anna: BWAAAHHHHH AHHHHHHHHH Cam: GYEAAAAAHHHHH Anna: WAHHHH AHHH AHHHHH We were out of there like a shot. Being adventurous and exploring the outskirts of civilization suddenly seemed much less appealing when there were clearly demon cats out and about. Cam: I think that if it were just a tiny bit colder, I wouldve burned rubber. We peeled out of there like the city-slickers we apparently are, and decided to head for warmer climates for the summe er, to more well-lit, people-filled places for the night. Youll have to excuse me; sometimes I mix up bloggers with migrating birds. Anyway, the rest of the night saw us to IHOP, with apparently half of MIT and various drunken partygoers, back to campus, briefly to Wellesley College, and then home safe by the gentle hour of 6:30AM. All this, dear readers, to bring you entertainment and distraction in your final hours. Look at what we do for you. We almost fell prey to a demon-cat. moving on. Anna: I would like to mention that all of the rest of the night activities Cam listed were carried out with much shivering (about 90% terror and 10% cold), much laughter (90% terror and 10% our own jokes), and much appreciation for the company of other people (Cam: especially 1) the state trooper at IHOP and 2) friends we ran into there). I would also like to add to that list of rest of the night activities by saying that, at 5:55am, I turned 18. Last year, my first post-birthday act was to hit the submit button on my Early Action applications. Cam: INTERRUPTING BLOGGER WHO? Wait, I messed up that joke. Whatever. So, at the start of this post (which we are writing using VNC computer screen and keyboard/mouse sharing), Anna and I were debating how to transition from college stories to cat applications, or some amalgamation of those, and she suggested using the cheesy segway: Speaking of scary things, to which I responded with much glee, mostly because I wanted to use a cheesy pun (double-pun intended). However, I see now that Anna is committing the crime of writing well and with smooth transitions, which deprives me of my basic right to punnery. Curse you, Anna (kidding). [Retroactive edit] Disclaimer: Were about to launch into a long-ish section on college applications; what weve written below is just the perspective of two long-winded MIT students, and not of the MIT admissions office. Please take it with several moles of salt, and maybe some pepper (that is to say: its just our opinion, and we have no bearing on the admissions process). Anna: Now that my brainstorming process has been exposed, Im going to continue off my final choice of segue. In case you were distracted by the seg(ue/way), cheesy, and pun pictures, let me redirect your attention to what this post was actually supposed to be about. You have a little over 24 hours to submit your application, which probably means that you either a) have submitted it, or b) are fervently re-reading every word, making sure its all perfect, and double-checking that you did, in fact, tick the right gender (thats the last thing I checked on mine). Theres something Id like to say about editing, which is that I think its possible to over-edit. By over-edit I mean edit out your natural voice, for the sake of producing a piece of grammatical, spellastic* perfection. *adjectival version of spelling provided by Daniel 12, a fellow French House-er. Thats not to say that you shouldnt check for typos, or careless basic grammatical mistakes. It is to say that your tone of voice is what makes the essay sound like you, and I think that the three-dimensional you, quirks and all, is a lot more precious than a two-dimensional, flawless piece of paper. Towards the end of the essay-editing process, I asked some pairs of fresh eyes (in the form of family and close friends) to take a look at my essays, taking care to stay away from people who might know a great deal about writing essays but not much at all about me. I didn’t ask them whether my writing was “perfect”, or whether it sounded particularly intellectual, but rather whether it sounded like me. The best feelings came from the “haha! Yes! This sounds exactly like you!” comments. As the clock ticked to 10:55am (London time) I scanned over the essays once more, feeling satisfied that I had genuinely gotten the essence of myself across. At 10:55, I turned 17, and hit the “submit” button. I then went outside, hung out with some friends, and relaxed. And was lucky enough not to run into any demon cats. Cam: Id like to take a second here to talk about something along similar lines. This summer, a friend from my high school was texting me (hello 21st century kids: try calling, sometime text messages are not as good for conversation. grumble, grumble, grumble) asking about MIT, and I suggested she come into the city and we talk about it / do a short tour of the campus, my dormitory, etc. She came with a list of questions that her parents wanted her to ask an MIT student, but also some that she had for me personally. I think what bothered me most not about her questions specifically, but about the larger attitude that many people have towards college applications, of which her questions reminded me was that the questions were in large part about what an application should be. There is no should be college application. You dont need to be writing about your 4.0 GPA, your cure for the common cold, or the impressive roles youve held in your long list of significant extracurricular activities. There is no must-join club for college applications, there is no must-have GPA; what matters is that you had passions, you followed them, and in them you found success or failure. My last-minute advice would be: do not focus your application on what you think it should have if you think MIT cares a lot about math, and you spent a week on the math team in sophomore year (cough, cough, me), dont prioritize that on your application over the many hours you spent reading and writing science fiction (or whatever you may have done) after school. If youre deciding what to prune from a too-long application, or choosing what goes on which list, then: focus your application on the things that matter most to you, whether theyre conventionally impressive or not, and through that you will shine. I guess how this applies to early action applicants right now is how it applied to me when I was finishing up my application; Id written four different big essays for the essay question, on two or three different topics (there was some overlap); in the end, I chose the one that I cared most about, and I think that was the most important choice. The choice wasnt the essay with the best sentence structure and variation, or the most spellastic essay, but rather the one that I was most driven to write. Anna: A final word from us: good luck, don’t stress too much, and Happy Halloween! Wild blogger, hard at work in its natural habitat.

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Art History Essay On Newgrange Christian art began. Prior to a large amount of Christians they may have been one of the best producing durable works Of art. Although Christianity was largely a religion Of the less fortunate in this time period (Backbite,john,2nd Eden. 1979), and because of that there is a lack of surviving art due to the lack of funds for patronage. Even though they had a lack of fund, they still made great work. Early Christian practiced their religions in secret, and will make perfect catacombs under Rome to bury their dead and then to practice their religion. Which in earliest times included baptism and readings from early text. This became the catechism, the art of catacombs is to celebrate a birth of a hero who teaches in mortal terms. The concepts of the protector healer, teacher and miracle maker are all based on the catechism. The Roman paganism, they worship of traditional gods natural spirits and emperors fail to satisfy peoples search for a meaningful satisfaction of metaphysical needs Or guide to an ethical life. According to an article by David Belch Some of the Traditional Roman state religion fails to satisfy intellectual or motional needs Of lower class paganism, in example: Image Of Caesar as god, becomes satirical, deteriorating social values and economic opportunity, at time Of great wealth to the privileged is demoralizing, Separation Of people from the mystical experience and No ethical or moral teachings as examples (Belch, David L, 2008, Mohr Sickbed). The early Christian didnt not deliberately copy the Isaac group for one of their most sacred themes, or that they made direct use of symbolism which was connected in their minds with what they thought was worshiping the devil but in reality their art was influenced and allowed themselves to be inspired by a form of representation with which many of them were familiar _ In Rome the link which bound Christian vivid pagan art is painting and not sculptures. All the earliest discovery of the catacombs is through the medium of frescoes; sculptured relief did not come into vogue until a later time. As it was shown in the book paganism and Christianity these arts were freely inspired by pagan motives; but on this subject there were two main schools of opinion: (a) the apologist for a purely Christian art who maintain that the resemblance to pagan anthropometry art is superficial and that we have here the seeds of an entirely new art which was eventually to revolutionize the world, and (b) those who see in the figures of the good shepherd, the prophets, virgins and martyrs, nothing but purely pagan 143), In Egypt however it is far more difficult to trace the connecting link. Probably Earliest Christian design is those worked in purple into the numerous specimens Of cloth from Sarnia. Again the decoration Of coffins and funerary furniture, Which played a huge part in Egyptian art, may very well have been the stepping stone by which pagan homeboys was transferred to Christian decoration. The strange part is terra-cotta the medium employed for the representation of numerous pagan deities, seems to have been forgotten by the early Christians of Egypt, but also one important exception to this appears in the figure of the good shepherd, Early Christian artists were thoughtful of biblical prohibitions against images, and were shy to represent Christ and Saints directly. At the same time, the look and power of didactic religious images was recognized, especially if they involved pagan and Jewish iconography. According to research Roman style was adapted to the new faith, but it may have proven incompatible with Christian subject matter: Classical art expressed the physical and the here- and-now; Christian art concerned itself with the spiritual and the hereafter (Pearson, 2010). Christian art gradually moved away from the naturalism, illusionist, solid Objects and flesh-and- blood figures of Classical art, for Christian artists did not care to extend our empirical world, but rather hoped to create otherworldly realms. 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Zavier Bacote Essays (690 words) - Culture, Religion, Fiction, Jedi

Zavier Bacote REL 110 2/19/18 New Religious Movement Rastafari , Jediism , and The Raelian Movement , are three very unique religions in the world that people take very serious, and are very committed to this religion. All three of these religions have their own form of god that matches there lively hood and the ways they live. Rastafari is an African - centered religion that was created and developed in Jamaica in the 1930s that is branched into three branches called the, Nyahbinghi Order; Bobo Shanti; Twelve Tribes of Israel. Rastafari was founded by a black Jamaican named Marcus Garvey who was Baptist who was teacher in the 1920s. Rastafari has a god named Jah, to the Rastafarian peopl e their god was manifested from on earth as Jesus, and he was black. Jediism also known as Jedi from the movie Star Wars is actually a real religion with real beliefs. Jediism believes in all living things share a living force and that all people know what to do and what not to do. In the Jediism religion they believe in an afterlife and that people can communicate with the afterlife. Jediism has always existed in the religion, a nd the region has been existing well before the movie Star Wars. The Jedi religion believes that good and evil have they own separate power and strengths. The Jedi religion has two sides, dark side and the light side. According to the Jedi religion the Star Wars movies copied their region and turned it into a movie, but the Star Wars movie executives and creators think otherwise. Raelism is a UFO religion that was created by Claude Vorilhon in 1974. Raelism is a religion that teaches that life, and earth was created by extraterrestrials , who they call Elohim. Members of this religion have had some type encounter with an extraterrestrial being personally. In the Raelism religion Elohim are their god to them. Raelism is a religion that started in Paris, France. The religion Raelism believe that extraterrestrial being had created everything on earth and that the y are the cause of life itself. Raelism can be located in Geneva, Switzerland where you can find most of the Raelism religion and its people. Raelism believe that they have alien DNA. The Raelism people celebrate a ritual similar to the burning man when they send their DNA to an alien planet. Rastafari, Jediism, and The Raelian Movement are all similar in the aspect that they are all very unique and different religion that a lot of people don't know about. These religions can me fictional so some people and a lively hood to most. These religions celebrate their own type of rituals which involve giving something to their god, and creator. Jediism and The Raelism Movement are two similar types of religions that have somewhat fictional type backgrounds , that worship a higher power and that they all have some type of power that was given to them by their god. The Rastafari religion compared to the other re li gion s can be more believable because the story of their god is somewhat not fictional but in a lot of ways it can be compared as the Christian god, so it can be a religion very believable in what the god may seem to people. The Rastafarian religion is more known than the other religions because of the Jamaican culture being so worldwide and more populated then the former religion that were talked about and mentioned. There are many religions that was mentioned that are very unique and to a lot of people funny but thousands of people believe in these religion because the many religions that are out there people may not have a connection to the type of religions that a lot of people are accustom to, so a lot of people create their own religion in their own image. WORK CITED http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/rastafari/ http://www.religionfacts.com/rastafarianism http://www.jedichurch.org/jedi-doctrine.html https://www.jedichurch.org/ http://www.rael.org/home http://www.elohimembassy.org/index.php

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