Article December 10, 2012 Issue

College, coding, and clarity

Auzita Irani

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“The same God that makes the test, takes the test.”

This was the thought that was running through my mind when I went to take an exam on data structures, a computer engineering practical designed to test my coding abilities. I was feeling scared, as coding is not my strongest skill, and I worried that there was no way I would get the required result. The fear was unsettling and made me feel distracted, so as I walked toward the laboratory, I continued praying with the idea that there was only one Mind, God, who both makes and takes the test.

As I was assigned my task, I was relieved to see that it would require code that I knew well. I was pretty satisfied that I would be able to do a good job. But as I began the assignment, I started getting confused. I wasn’t able to exactly remember the code I had previously memorized. At that point, I began silently going over “the scientific statement of being” from page 468 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, which begins, “There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all.” As I prayed with this statement, I managed to recall bits and pieces of the code.

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