<p>Yeah, you can take classes from Harvard Summer School. (They are rather pricey. I almost took one the summer after sophomore year, and then I was like “Whoa! Expensive!” and I decided not to.)</p>
<p>I’ve heard of people taking classes at BU over the summer as well. Tufts offers summer courses, but of course Tufts is farther away from MIT than Harvard or BU. </p>
<p>During the school year, you can [cross-register</a>](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/uinfo/academics/register/crossreg/]cross-register”>http://web.mit.edu/uinfo/academics/register/crossreg/) at Harvard, Wellesley, Mass College of Art, or the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (all of which are included in tuition = free*). It’s not free during the summer, because you’re not paying MIT tuition over the summer.</p>
<p>Note that taking a course at another school during the summer is transfer credit rather than cross-registration credit and is therefore handled differently by MIT – cross-reg credit automatically makes its way onto your transcript, while you have to petition [transfer</a> credit examiners](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/firstyear/transfer/credit/examiners.html]transfer”>http://web.mit.edu/firstyear/transfer/credit/examiners.html) for transfer credit.</p>
<p>*Also note that after spending time at MIT, your concept of the word “free” will change. It probably sounds ridiculous to you that I consider cross-registration “free”, when technically it costs $40k. Once you get here you begin to pretend that tuition payments don’t happen and that you’re entitled to lots of things from MIT (“free” Athena paper, “free” food, “free” MIT Medical care) to make up for tuition. It’s an interesting mental scheme.</p>