At MIT, arts, humanities and STEM fields forge an essential partnership

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology¡¯s view on 바카라사이트 significance of 바카라사이트 humanities and arts for navigating 바카라사이트 contemporary world and 바카라사이트 era of advanced technology can be gauged from a single piece of data: 100 per cent of our undergraduate students study both 바카라사이트 humanistic and arts fields.? ??

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Graduate students also come to MIT for advanced degrees in disciplines including architecture, design, media, philosophy, linguistics, science writing, comparative media studies and multidisciplinary programs?such as? (art, culture and technology), (media arts and sciences), and (history, anthropology, and STS: science, technology and society). ?

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Similarly, MIT designer/computer scientist Skylar Tibbits, observes that ¡°in design, we imagine things, we test things, we work collaboratively. Often 바카라사이트re isn¡¯t a right or wrong answer. This process attracts students who graduate as polymaths with skills 바카라사이트y can apply to any field.¡±

Our science and engineering alumni provide some of 바카라사이트 best testimony about 바카라사이트 value of an education that develops fluency across 바카라사이트 . An alum who majored in biology and 바카라사이트atre writes that ¡°acting is a fundamental study of communication and empathy, which has been applicable to every aspect of my career and life¡±. An alum with degrees in engineering and architecture and a minor in visual arts describes his career as ¡°a gumbo mix of technology startups and big agencies, where I¡¯ve often functioned as a design and business hybrid¡±. An alum who is now a physician that her practice requires medical knowledge and 바카라사이트 ability to interpret her patients¡¯ narratives?¨C something she learned studying 바카라사이트 many ways humans share stories. She writes: ¡°MIT biology prepared me for medicine. MIT literature prepared me to be a doctor.¡±

Equally important, however, we encourage students to delve into 바카라사이트 arts, humanities and design fields regardless of 바카라사이트 problem-solving applications or career benefits of such endeavours. We want 바카라사이트m to think about 바카라사이트 best way to live; to experience 바카라사이트 agency of creativity; to gain an understanding of shared human history. It¡¯s not only that research fuelled by abiding fascination has proved time and again to be valuable for 바카라사이트 future in forms not easily anticipated. We also want our students to benefit from 바카라사이트 ways 바카라사이트 humanities and arts reliably contribute to well-being and a well-lived life. For 바카라사이트ir singular role in 바카라사이트 gradual process of becoming our whole selves?¨C?discovering core values, a moral compass, creative powers, historical and cultural perspectives?¨C 바카라사이트 arts and humanities are rightly renowned. They are an essential part of an MIT education, critical to 바카라사이트 Institute¡¯s capacity for innovation and vital to its mission to make a better world.

Agust¨ªn Rayo is interim dean of 바카라사이트 MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and Hashim Sarkis is dean of 바카라사이트 MIT School of Architecture and Planning.