Beavers are nature’s collaborators. We don’t do anything alone. I’m working with MIT’s new Humanist Chaplain, Greg Epstein, and the Humanist Hub to plan an MIT Community Holiday Celebration scheduled for Thursday evening December 13. This date is right between the end of classes and exam week.
MIT students and community: we need your input and participation. There are brainstorming meetings planned for the at 4pm in the Chapel on Thursday October 18 and in the Student Center first floor meeting room on Thursday October 25.
We are planning a secular celebration with uplifting songs, heart-opening readings, and intriguing stories about the mighty beaver. We want to decorate the Chapel to bring out its coziness and uncanny resemblance to the inside of the beaver lodge, and to make the lamp posts and trees outside look a bit magical. Of course we’re thinking about food afterwards in W11. Something festive. Certainly including cake.
There’s plenty of room for everyone’s creativity in bringing this idea to life. Please let me hear from you about any interest in participating in the planning and/or hosting the event.
Back in the Jurassic Period, I was the Princeton Tigress. That’s me, leading the parade down to the football stadium. Remembering those days reminds me of what I love most about MIT: the collaboration.
-–Nina Lytton, Humanist Chaplaincy Intern
