<p>How are MIT's humanities programs compared to other top schools?</p>
<p>MITs humanities are excellent and definitely on-par with what you might find at other top schools, based on my experience. MIT top ranked (for whatever that’s worth) programs in economics, political science, and linguistics. MIT the same type of humanities offerings that you’d expect to find at places like Harvard, Yale, or Stanford (history, literature, writing, theater arts, music, anthropology, philosophy, etc), and if there happens to be something that MIT does not have, you can cross-register to take courses at Harvard. Majors/minors are also offered in all of the humanities (it is not uncommon for students to minor in a humanities discipline, and you can also double major with a humanities if you’d like. Aside from the economics department, however, there are relatively few humanities-only majors at MIT compared to science/engineering).</p>
<p>Like other top schools, MIT has a humanities distribution requirements (3 courses selected from among 5 humanities, arts, or social science disciplines), a writing requirement (2 communication intensive courses in the humanities, 2 communication intensive within your major), and a humanities concentration requirement (everybody must complete 3-4 courses in a specific humanities, arts, or social sciences field to get a concentration). It totals to 8 humanities courses (minimum) for graduation (some of which can be fulfilled at Harvard). By comparison, Yale requires 6 courses from among the humanities, arts, and social sciences, plus 1-2 foreign language courses (depending upon your proficiency when you first come in) for graduation. You will find similar distributions among many schools in MITs range.</p>
<p>although majoring only in a humanities might be uncommon, would it be unwise to do so? would I still get the same educational value and experience or is the only risk simply being an anomaly in a tech school environment?</p>
<p>The anomalies exist, and I don’t think they do too terribly 
My main question for you is, are you interested enough in science to get through 9 sometimes-quite-difficult classes that are required for everyone? (Chemistry, biology, two terms physics, two terms math, 2 restricted electives in science, and a lab.)</p>
<p>I probably could. I could pass out of a few of them, and I enjoy science but it isn’t something I see myself doing as a career, at least not anymore. sigh, these past months have been crazy.</p>
<p>Would I still do well after MIT in terms of, say, grad school in writing or getting a job that involves writing?</p>