MIT – Poetry = A Travesty

November 14th, 2010

This past week, graduate MIT student Emily Ruppel wrote an editorial for the MIT newspaper “The Tech” that offered a formula even a poet can understand: “MIT – poetry = a travesty.” She was lamenting the cancellation of MIT’s “Advanced Poetry Workshop” for financial reasons, while the school continued to offer such courses as “Writing for Social Media,” “Writing for Games” and “Communicating With Mobile Technology.”

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