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Bidding Boethius Farewell
Students on the New England High School Summer Program woke bright and early Thursday morning for Mass and breakfast, eager to begin their day. The previous night’s trip to the movies provided a fun break from their usual routine, and now they were ready to jump back into Euclidean propositions! Some of the programmers spent a part of the morning reviewing the props in St. Gianna Molla Hall or working through the last-minute steps with their peers during breakfast. All the hard work really pays off when you get called and can confidently make your demonstration!
At the morning class, students demonstrated props 11, 13, and 15, working with lines and angles. Now, they have the ability to construct perpendicular lines, they know that a line set up on a straight line will make two angles equal to two right angles, and they have proven the equality of vertical angles!
After Euclid came a pizza lunch in Gould Commons, which, as always, was abuzz with the sounds of chatting, joking, and laughing. When lunch ended, students made their way back to St. Gianna Molla for their final class on Boethius.
In the last books of The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius asks many important questions, still struggling with his pitiful state and seeking solace in the logic of it all. Students considered the idea of “fortune,” following up on Lady Philosophy’s claim that all fortune is good fortune. This suggestion led to questions about Providence and God’s governance of the world, whether chance or luck play a role in the way the world turns, and how free our will really is.
Such queries all go back to a fundamentally difficult question that every person has found himself struggling with at some point: Why do bad things happen to good people? Man has a desire to know why things happen, especially when the issue is clouded in unknowns, and this question seems to remain the most mysterious of all. Thus, students were grateful for the opportunity to discuss their ideas with one another, wrestling with a significant difficulty, and coming out all the better for having contemplated such a prevalent concern.
With that, the students bade farewell to The Consolation of Philosophy and left the classroom building, heading straight to the Bl. Frassati Student Center for their final dance practice. Come again tomorrow to read about their afternoon and evening here at the Summer Program Blog!
