Hey hey hey!! How much does religion affect MIT?

The_Speaker
Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:30:27 +0000

Alright, I’ve been reading and following this discussion for awhile, and I just gotta give my two cents at this point.

First, I’m concerned about the origin of this thread. Religion, if you really believe in it, should be a part of who you are as a person. Not just another factor for admission to XYZ college. If it’s who you are or what you do for EC, then sure, write about it. If you’re more concerned what ANY college thinks about your religion than you are of being true to yourself and, therefore, true to the beliefs you hold, something just isn’t right.

I would also hope that MIT, being a school of engineers (and creativity is a part of design and engineering), would be open-minded enough to not discriminate and make broad generalizations.

And finally, as for evolution, I would hope that any school worth its beans taught multiple theories, just like my very religious Bio teacher taught intelligent design as a theory, and evolution as a theory, and creationism as a theory, etc. presenting all cases fairly and accurately. The only reason I know she’s religious is because I asked her after class which theory she subscribed to, and she said both intelligent design AND evolution and explained that it was her religious beliefs guiding that.

MIT is a place full of smart people. jessiehl makes a point about there being a large variety of religious clubs. Smart people don’t make sweeping assumptions and discriminations and generalizations; in fact, everything I’ve seen from the MIT Admissions people shows that they really try to be quite fair.

And with that, I respectfully duck out of this thread.