MIT and Partnering

So. MIT and I need to have a little discussion. They sent me this email:
Dear Emma,

You haven't responded to any of our other emails regarding getting on
the MIT mailing list and getting some interesting/cool materials in the
mail, so we'll stop bugging you. But I begged my boss to let me try one
last time, telling him that bad haiku is the key to connecting with
people.

If you respond to this email, after having ignored the others, it will
make admissions officers everywhere rethink their use of bad haiku in
the admissions process. Let's change the world.

Here goes...

Hi, how's it going?
We would like to send you an
MIT brochure.

It's free, really cool,
And we think you will like it.
Click the link below to request it.

(That last line had nine
syllables. Did you catch that?
We knew you were smart.)

Now, what you have to understand is that I don't reply to many college emails. I ignore most of them without even thinking. But MIT, there's a reason for that. It obviously isn't that they are a bad school, because they're very good at what they do. It isn't even because I'm not interested in the things that they teach, since I'm seriously considering engineering. But that's all that they do. If I was one of the math/science geeks who hated English and History it would be one thing. But the biggest college related decision I'm going to have to make is whether to major in Engineering/Physics (depending on whether the school I choose offers Engineering), History, Creative Writing, or Literature. So MIT's one sided approach is the problem. Sending me butchered poetry? Not the way to convince me to apply.

Now on a related topic:
Partnering Classes are hard. And I am really sore. And bad at finger pirouettes. But seriously, the classes were a great experience and I feel like I learned a lot. RIBT (Rhode Island's ballet theatre) is all girls right now, but we got some men who work with the local-ish professional companies to come help teach the class. It doesn't seem like it should be so different from dancing by yourself, but it really is. You hold your weight differently, etc. Instead of leaning slightly forward you're supposed to lean into the guy, and you really have to trust them completely.

You know those trust exercises where you fall back and have to trust the person to catch you? We did some stuff like that. The girl stands on her point shoes in fifth (feet crossed so that one foot is right in front of the other) with her arms up in fifth, a circle above her head. The guy basically holds her waist and tips her in all different directions while she has to stay stiff as a board. It sounds easy. I promise that it isn't. But still, I deffinitely learned a lot, and it's always fun to do somehthing different.