07 Tuesday Jul 2015
Posted in Summers
“By the end of this week, I’ll have you translating Goethe.”
This was the promise my professor made to our class on the first day of the HDS Summer Language Program. We looked back at her, incredulous.
“I’m serious,” she said. “Every year I say this to my students, and they think I’ve gone off the deep end, but by the end of the week you’ll see that I’m right. The transformation that you’ll experience in this next eight weeks will shock you.”
28 Friday Mar 2014
Posted in Why I Chose HDS
Tags
Aspirations, Career Services, Experiential, Gender, Harvard, LGBT, MTS, Study Abroad
Divinity Hall. Photo by Chris Alburger
I was planning on going to graduate school to get a master’s in international education, which made sense at the time. I had been working with international students for three years, both in the U.S. and in Costa Rica, and getting a master’s degree was the next logical step. I had a plan, I had a spreadsheet with all of the international education programs I was applying for, and I had a solid elevator speech to respond to the inevitable, frequent, and mildly painful question, “what are you going to do next?”
07 Friday Feb 2014
Posted in Experiential Learning
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Academics, Buddhism, Catholic, Christianity, Comparative Monasticisms, Comparative Religion, Diversity, Experiential, Experiential Learning, Love, Monks, RSL, The Divine
Saint Joseph’s Abbey, Trappist Monastery. Photo by Jahnabi Barooah
“All I want to say to you is ‘You are the Beloved,’ and all I hope is that you can hear these words as spoken to you with all the tenderness and force that love can hold. My only desire is to make these words reverberate in every corner of your being—‘You are the Beloved.’ ” —Henri J. M. Nouwen
If someone had told me a year ago that I was going to be a master’s student at Harvard Divinity School, with the opportunity to directly experience monastic life from the perspective of two different religions in the middle of January, I would have probably laughed in their face in complete disbelief. Continue reading
