Email Pen Pals


Pen Pals is just a great concept! You write back and forth with someone, that’s it. It’s cooler with paper and stamps. The tactile multimedia nature, the time delays, the old school vibes.

I used to write my younger half sister letters when I was in college. She found one recently and sent me photos.

DEAR MISS "I'M GETTING AN A IN SEVENTH GEERE MATH" O,
HoWS EUERITH iN loDI?
I MIsS YOU GUYS, GUERITHIN
IS GREAT DOWN HERE. I AFALLS LIKE MY CLASSES, IM IN ENGLISH 101, ITS JUST FRESHMAN ENGLISH. WERE READING ALL SORTS OF GOTHIC LITERATURE LIKE
"PRACULA" AND "THE HOUND
oF The BASKERUIlLES! I HaNE a CLASS for TheE lbors on MONDAY NIGHTS CALLD "THE worlD of the teis: IrIs Not A BAO CLASS BUT I DREAO IT BECASE ITS SO LONG. WE JUST LEARN BASIC SIUFF ABOUT THE FOuR BASIC ForMS of ART:
PANCE, MUSIC, TEATRE, AND VISUAL ART.
WE NeED tO ATTEND
a PERFORMANCE oR EXIBIT IN EACH of the arEas aND whire A RESPONSE ABOUT IT.
THEN I HAvE a CIASS CAlLED
"SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY."
ITS MY EASIEST CHASS.
WE LEARN
SIMPLE SNUFF ABOUT BROAD SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS.
I BET YoU FUEN
KNOW
THe
SNFF
WE'RE LEARNING.
electron (-)
IF You lAVEN'T ALREADY LeARNeD
proTon (+)
THAT FET, IIM SORE YOU WILLSOON.
CHEMISTRUS QUANTUM
MODEL oF THE ATOM
THEN
THINK
I HAVE MAn 143. ITS PRETTT HARD. IT MAKES ME
WHAT
HAD
TO LEARN IN
SEVENTh GRADE MATH.
) BET
YOUR
DOING STUFF LIKE MULTIPLING AND DIVIDING
FRACTIONS, MAYBE YOUR EVEN GETTING INTRODUCED ALGEBRA.
I'LL GIVE YoU a HEAD START.
1 . SEE LILA
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE.
I HAVE WINter break for a WHole
MONTA COMING
Ur HeRE
SO WE CAN
HANG ouT THEN.
WHITE BACK!
(FUR FOR LESSOnS)
LESSON #1: BASK ALGEBRA
ALGEBRA MAKES USG OF "VARIBLES".
THESE ARE JUST
LETTERS LIKE
X, Y, oR Z. THe vaRIBLE is the NumBeR
ThaT Your thing to floure Out,
3. * = 6
"THREE, TIMES WHAT NUMBER, EQUALS SIX"
note: the lirtle dos means "times"
I'M SURE ITS OBvIOUS ThaT TIre aNswEte is two
BECHUSE 3XZ = 6.
YoU wOULD wRIlE titt answer: X=2
7・メ=21
(YoU woUlD SEE It WereN
フィーzI
tHE MaGIC of an EQUaLS sIgN is that You
C+N pa
ANYTHIG you want to the Equation as Lons as you do the
EXACT SAME ThIS to BoTH sipes of IT.
IN THIS EDUATION,
IF YOU CAN GET THe "Y" BY ITSELF ON ONE SIpE OF
TIre EQUanoN, The answer will
BE ON THe OTHeR SiDE.
Jに
( 그직 7 pupe cher sor ae me saumw at 7.
> 7 = 1, So THEY CANCEL OUT
* = " > YoU CAN DO THAT ON POUR CALKOLATOR
x= 3
+RY
his ONE:
15x = 90
NEXT WEEK: GRAPHING

But of course — email is 1000✕ more practical and there is no reason you can’t evoke the same sort of pen pal relationship via email.

So — have you done it? Are you currently doing it? Do you like the idea but don’t have one going right now? I don’t really have one at the moment, regrettably. I feel like I’d gravitate toward it more if I wasn’t so busy blogging. I like the one-on-one vibe of pen pals, but apparently not as much as the one-to-many writing style I normally do.


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