Dear FNL Readers:

We’re writing this letter to encourage you to write us letters. We’d love to hear from you! Over the past 36+ years we’ve received on the average of fewer than five letters per academic year. Sometimes we receive not even one letter in an entire semester! Except for printing invoices – those we do get five to six times each academic year!

Letters don’t have to be long; just a short email letting us know what you liked in a previous issue – or what you didn’t like! Perhaps tell us a subject you’d like to see covered. Or you could write a 200- or 300-word exposition on something that you’ve been wanting to say for a while and finally found the time and motivation to say it! (A few hundred words more and you could submit it as an article and see where that leads.)

The point is you can write on any topic you choose related to the Institute, and you can make it most any length. Just be sure it isn’t libelous in any way and that it doesn’t call out a faculty or other colleague in a defamatory manner. All letters we receive have the potential for being published in a future Faculty Newsletter (unless we’re asked by the author not to do so), and we will notify the writer of all letters we intend to publish.

Please send all letters, commentary, poems, articles, and any words of wisdom to: fnl@mit.edu, or MIT Faculty Newsletter, Building 10-335, Cambridge, MA 02139

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