<p>To the resident current MIT students:</p>
<p>What do you think of seminar-based advising?</p>
<p>People who do it always seem to like it. There are a lot of fun topics.</p>
<p>The only complaint I've ever heard is that it does eat up a chunk of time. Not a huge one, usually, but some. One of my friends took a seminar that traveled to different museums in the Boston area on Saturdays, and she liked it, but she would have liked a few Saturdays for herself during fall term.</p>
<p>FWIW, if you do a seminar, you will almost certainly see your advisor more often than if you do traditional advising.</p>
<p>yeah yeah. it's good :)</p>
<p>the free food was really priceless. seriously.</p>
<p>hmm.. do they advertise whether or not food is available?</p>
<p>food is almost always most definitely available.</p>
<p>I think all of the seminars (and traditional advisors too) are given a certain amount of money by MIT to provide free food. Seminars probably get more though.</p>
<p>There is a lot of free food at MIT. Your tuition dollars at work. ;)</p>