Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture: Rings of Saturn: what MIT looks for in undergraduate students - and which will inform MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch in many languages * * "The full price to attend MIT for the 2019–2020 academic year is $73,160. ⁠ This total cost includes $53,450 for tuition, $10,430 for housing, $5,960 for food costs, $2,160 for personal expenses, $820 for books and supplies and $340 to cover the school's student life fee" * * * * coronavirus/ COVID-19 in new (radical action?) ways. #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 billion people in realistic virtual earth for medicine in collaboration with Stanford's Duke's Google's Project Baseline for testing, tracking and studying viruses, producing vaccines - and at MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ and Sch * What genes and knowledge of them, have done, Joi! * * * piano hot tub out back ... would love to have a virtual Harbin Hot Springs happening for your soaking pleasure - in Glacier Glasses (and for hiking the virtual PCT walking on Athol Ave or up on Skyline :) - but it'll be awhile yet :) * * Face-to-Face in person OR Face-to-Face LIVE people? ... how to cultivate live people in group video, until in person becomes possible again, I'm asking myself. Create sociality online anew? * * * Sorry the Unitarian Universalist service Livestream didn't work - that it sounded like someone was playing last week's service from Youtube at the same time as the live Livestream from the 1st UU Church of Pittsburgh, PA, Grow further Unitarian Universalist community since the UU service Livestream didn't work? * * * Is the Coronavirus pandemic mostly a worldwide 'firedrill' ?

Hi Ay,

Please read through these emails again to get a sense of what WUaS's process is at this point - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturn-planet-thanks-for-your-email-and.html >

Saturn (planet): Thanks for your email, and inquiry about becoming an astronomy student at World Univ & Sch for a free-to-students' licensing online Bachelor's degree * Regarding the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe as part of studying at World Univ & Sch for learning - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click (think Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow +) and regarding adding images and video in a wiki sense * See esp. "New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space" video

> (because I think I've already answered a number of your questions here in previous emails) - and where the WUaS licensing process with the state of California's BPPE could begin in mid-May at the earliest, and with a BPPE workshop. Application process would follow this, and be informed by the BPPE workshop too, in conjunction with WUaS's developing online platform, - and would likely involve high school transcripts, letters of recommendation, and essays, and possibly eventually test scores. Please see too what MIT looks for in undergraduate students (and below) -

"What we look for
The match between you and MIT"
https://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/what-we-look-for/

And courses, at this time, would be MIT OCW > MITx informed, where students would be taking about 40 courses over 4 years, so about 10 courses per year - probably via the edX platform.

What state (or specifically county) are you based in, when you're not traveling, in a legal sense, and regarding CC-4 MIT OCW-centric WUaS's exploring seeking reimbursement from departments of education in all 50 states, or federally as well? Books and Lego Robotics, etc., would be costs students are responsible for, whereas tuition would be free-to-students' and something WUaS, again, would seek reimbursement for, probably from counties (please read my previous emails again), and WUaS doesn't have an estimate of these costs at this point.

Here's a perspective on costs of going to MIT for a year, for your reference:

"The full price to attend MIT for the 2019–2020 academic year is $73,160. ⁠ This total cost includes $53,450 for tuition, $10,430 for housing, $5,960 for food costs, $2,160 for personal expenses, $820 for books and supplies and $340 to cover the school's student life fee" (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/02/its-costs-73160-to-go-to-mitheres-how-much-students-actually-pay.html). WUaS seeks to create an online bookstore for books and supplies related specifically to the courses WUaS offers.

Since you've told me a number of times that you're actively a Christian, I'm including Professors Viehland (active in World Univ & Sch), both of whom are active in a Methodist Church in western Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Viehland is a Methodist minister, and both of whom went to MIT in chemistry/physics as undergraduates. Please feel free to ask Larry Viehland questions as well.

Have you taken an edX course before - to see if you'd enjoy taking potentially 40 of them over 4 years? Here's a free "How to learn online" course from edX - https://www.edx.org/course/how-to-learn-online - which is only 2 weeks long. And as you might think, MIT undergraduate students, by way of comparison, are quite active learners, high achievers, have great study skills and are hard workers, and tend to be at the top of their high school classes, - with 4 years of focused academic study in high school on their transcripts. And adding having taken such courses to your application would be sensible.

What do you think?

Scott

World Univ & Sch is like CC-4 MIT OCW in 4 languages with Wikipedia in ~300 languages (and, in a sense, shares MIT's mission, referred to below)

- https://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/what-we-look-for/ >

What we look for
The match between you and MIT

Ask any admissions officer at MIT, and they will tell you that while grades and scores are important, it’s really the match between applicant and the Institute that drives our selection process.

Here are the key components:

Alignment with MIT’s mission
Remember that there are many ways to make the world better—we’re not looking for applicants to have cured all infectious disease in the world by the time they’re 15. Tutoring a single kid in math changes the world. Lobbying a senator to amend bad policy changes the world. There are thousands of examples.

Collaborative and cooperative spirit
The core of the MIT spirit is collaboration and cooperation; you can see it all over the Institute. Many of the problem sets (our affectionate term for homework) at MIT are designed to be worked on in groups, and cross-department labs are very common. MIT is known for its interdisciplinary research. If you enjoy working alone all the time, that’s completely valid, but you might not be particularly happy at MIT.

Initiative
Opportunities are abundant at MIT, but they must be seized. Research projects, seed money, and interesting lectures aren’t simply handed to students on silver platters here. For those students who take initiative—who take advantage of what’s around them—MIT’s resources are unparalleled.

Risk-taking
MIT wants to admit people who are not only planning to succeed but who are also not afraid to fail. When people take risks in life, they learn resilience—because risk leads to failure as often as it leads to success. The most creative and successful people—and MIT is loaded with them—know that failure is part of life and that if you stay focused and don’t give up, goals are ultimately realized.

Hands-on creativity
MIT is an active, hands-on place. Innovation is risky and messy! Getting your hands dirty and trying something new is often the best way to achieve success. We apply theoretical knowledge to real-world problems here; our Latin motto means “Mind and Hand.” In other words, you shouldn’t just enjoy thinking, you should also enjoy doing.

Intensity, curiosity, and excitement
In a nutshell, you should be invested in the things that really mean something to you (we’re not particularly picky as to what). Explore! Choose quality over quantity—you don’t have to do a million things to get into college. Put your heart into a few things that you truly care about and that will be enough.

The character of the MIT community
Our community is comprised of people who take care of each other and lift each other up, who inspire each other to work and dream beyond their potential. We’re looking to admit people who by nature will sustain the qualities of this community.

The ability to prioritize balance
Despite what you may have heard, this place is NOT all about work. To be successful here, you must prioritize some measure of downtime. Therefore, we like to see that you’ve prioritized some downtime in high school as well. Question #1 (Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it.) is not a trick question. Answer it honestly.

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

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Ay,

Again, I think, here's an article in German - "Soon we'll be able to see to the edge of the Universe" (https://translate.google.com/) from Twitter (and regarding the benefits of social media in a different way) -

1) https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article206885737/Webb-Teleskop-Bald-koennen-wir-bis-zum-Rand-des-Universums-schauen.html?wtrid=socialmedia.socialflow....socialflow_twitter

2) with the article's Twitter connection - https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article206885737/Webb-Teleskop-Bald-koennen-wir-bis-zum-Rand-des-Universums-schauen.html

And also especially regarding the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe as part of studying at World Univ & Sch for learning - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click (think Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow +) and regarding adding images and video in a wiki sense, of not only the universe, but also a realistic virtual earth, and for learning astronomy and physics in very new ways. What do you think? And how much physics did you study in high school?

Here is astronomy - https://www.edx.org/learn/astronomy - and physics - https://www.edx.org/course/subject/physics at edX, and I only see 2 MITx courses in the physics' subject.

Best, Scott

PS, Just found this, in the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe regards:

"New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space"

https://youtu.be/cbHvQ3W8JRs

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Glad to hear it, Joi. Yes. 24 posts in idea-rich blog explore coronavirus/ COVID-19 in new (radical action?) ways. #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 billion people in realistic virtual earth for medicine in collaboration with Stanford's Duke's Google's Project Baseline for testing, tracking and studying viruses, producing vaccines - and at MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch. Thanks for texts. What genes (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes?m=0), and knowledge of them, have done, Joi!

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Thanks, Fred, and likewise - Yes. 24 posts in idea-rich blog explore coronavirus/ COVID-19 in new (radical action?) ways. #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 billion people in #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics for medicine in collaboration with Stanford's Duke's Google's Project Baseline for testing, tracking and studying viruses, producing vaccines- and at MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch. What genes (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes?m=0), and knowledge of them, have done,

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Hi Adam, Craig and Byron!

How are you, and your families doing (and in quarantine, sheltering at home) in the Pacific NW? ... It was a pretty beautiful day here in Canyon 94516, and it feels like the world may be cooling off even, at least for a few days. Could this be due to dramatically less fossil fuel burning, due to coronavirus 'memes' in all 200 countries? Up to about 24 blog post in 'genes' label re this unusual time - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/weedy-sea-dragon-soaking-from-home-in.html?m=0 :).

That almost every school in the world is going online is an AMAZING opportunity for the work of MIT OCW-centric Wiki World Univ & Sch - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/cheese-tree-glochidion-ferdinandi.html?m=0 too ... people are learning how to study online ... hope World Uni can develop a class of 500-2000 online undergraduates this autumn as we license with CA's BPPE! :) Much love! :)

Pacific NW (Oregon where we attended Reed College together) reminders abound in these curious times - and in the SF Bay Area. (Am wondering in blog whether a 'radical action' - eg EarthFirst 30 years later (where I was involved in PDX / western Cascades, with the Cathedral Forest Action Group seeking to save Old Growth forest nonviolently - could be partly cause of coronavirus memes in all ~200 countries even! But who knows? Glad you're all well, getting out in the rain, and nice to read your message. Be well, stay well! - S

Please stay safe!

- Fondly, Scott

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Patti -

Likewise for your text m'honey. You're both so fortunate to have that piano hot tub out back ... would love to have a virtual Harbin Hot Springs happening for your soaking pleasure - in Glacier Glasses (and for hiking the virtual PCT walking on Athol Ave or up on Skyline :) - but it'll be awhile yet :)

Scott

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Kim and Larry,

Glad to hear, Kim! Face-to-Face in person OR Face-to-Face LIVE people? ... how to cultivate live people in group video, until in person becomes possible again, I'm asking myself. Create sociality online anew?

Scott

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Good morning, Ma,

Nice to talk last night. Sorry the Unitarian Universalist service Livestream didn't work - that it sounded like someone was playing last week's service from Youtube at the same time as the live Livestream from the 1st UU Church of Pittsburgh, PA, I think you said. Contact some UU friends in Pgh re LiveStreaming next Sunday ? Possibly let these online UU services' go - since they may not be helpful? Look for an alternative UU Sunday Livestream? Could Rev David Herndon begin even his own Livestream from his home as a UU service, and at a different time, even, and innovation-wise, for example - and re generating further your UU network and community? Or could he lead a covenant group or similar instead in Zoom at a different time, for example? The UU Church can be a good community in these unsettling times. Grow further Unitarian Universalist community since the UU service Livestream didn't work?

... Could MIT Scratch team member, E.S., from Cleveland, somehow know the Cleveland UU community?

Am doing a Livestream soon regarding World Univ & Sch.

Cool weather here ... kinda nice, ... glad to hear back from a few friends after texting quite a few friends yesterday evening a version of the following. Good to stay in communication in these times when everyone's going online due to the coronavirus meme... Ken Thompson asks how you're doing in response to one of these texts.

Have fun exploring connecting online in group video in these unsettling times - telephone too. Am glad too you're settling in, and making friends, both around you, and regarding your wider great Pittsburgh community.

Your many birthdays' picnic on Friday outside in the cold is wonderful in these regards too. Talk with you soon! (Time to begin a family here, Ma, and grow my community this way:)

Love, Scott

Hello, Ken! How are you, and your family doing (and in quarantine, sheltering at home)? ... It was a pretty beautiful day here in Canyon 94516, and it feels like the world may be cooling off even, at least for a few days. Could this be due to dramatically less fossil fuel burning, due to coronavirus 'memes' in all 200 countries? Up to about 24 blog post in 'genes' label re this unusual time - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/weedy-sea-dragon-soaking-from-home-in.html?m=0 :).

Please stay safe! -

Fondly, Scott

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Hi Ma,

Use the UU Livestraming challenges recently as an opportunity to connect further with friends and grow your UU community like a garden with lots of rain over the course of the week :) - and for better Livestreaming - but also especially communication power (Castells' book title) - in the future on Sundays? :) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/rings-of-saturn-what-mit-looks-for-in.html (which I touch on at the bottom of this today's post as well!) Lots of rain again today ... spring will be full of flowers!

Love, Scott

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