Harmonizing a Science Major and a Music Minor For April Deet '02, a physics major, just studying science did not completely satisfy her. She also decided to pursue a minor in Music. Deet, who sings and plays the flute, wanted to find a way to express her love for music. Pursuing music as a minor was the perfect way to do that because she could study music composition, perform, and profit from the experience in the form of a minor degree. Many students, like Deet, pursue humanities minors such as music because it fills them with personal satisfaction.
Many students decide to do minors in areas such as foreign languages, or writing.
Jennifer actually planned her minor even before she came to MIT, having participated in activities germane to writing in high school, so finding the people to guide her in the right direction was not difficult. Humanities minors can often alleviate the stress that often burden students taking science and engineering classes. Writing classes tend to be more work than other HASS classes because of the amount of reading and writing that can't be dismissed. In addition, she lets many of the more pleasurable aspects of her major filter into her life. I like to keep a journal everyday because writing in it is very cathartic and promotes exploration of identity.