<p>I really like MIT but I’m worried about connections in humanities fields. I know MIT students cross register at Harvard, does this provide a good opportunity to make connections? What about MIT/Harvard parties?</p>
<p>Connections at parties? You’re not going to meet too many professors at parties. Kinda sketchy. Harvard students actually don’t come to MIT parties all that much, anyway.</p>
<p>The best way to make connections in humanities fields is to talk to professors. MIT’s humanities professors tend to be incredibly accessible, and class sizes are often quite small. You won’t have a problem being noticed by MIT humanities professors.</p>
<p>no I mean if I was interested in starting a company or a project and we needed some humanities people, would I be able to find strong humanities students at MIT?</p>
<p>Why not? </p>
<p>The connotation that we’re all just computing robots at MIT is unfortunately so entrenched in common culture that sometimes I still find sad.</p>
<p>Of course we have strong “humanities people”! Our debate team recently won first place at an international competition, Pulitzer-laureate Junot Diaz teaches at MIT, and we have a ton of course 15 students that are apt communicators.</p>
<p>Granted, I don’t really understand why you need “humanities people” to start a company. Do you mean effective communicators?</p>
<p>I don’t know, can you find good “tech” people at Harvard?</p>
<p>People aren’t generally 1-dimensional.</p>
<p>You can find lots of strong humanities people at MIT, just not a lot of humanities majors.</p>