What Are We Waiting For

What Are We Waiting For If youre returning to our site today, you may have noticed that weve changed the homepage video. Gone is MIT: The Motion Picture, retired (appropriately) to the  MIT Movies Emeritus  page. In its place, you can find What Are We Waiting For: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m18EE36Utb0 This movie was produced by MIT students during the Freshman Arts Program which took place before orientation. We liked it so much that we asked them if we could feature it on the website, and they said yes! Starring/writing/filming/editing/producing the movie were: Evie Adams Delian Asparouhov Peter Godart Nikita Khlystov Lili Sun Zach Tomlinson I also want to give a special shout-out to Amiina, the band who wrote and recorded the eponymous song, and the folks at Big Dipper Productions, who kindly allowed us and the students to use the music. If you like the song, or if even if youd just like to support the band, you can download it from iTunes here. p.s. if you want to share the video above, use this version on YouTube! What Are We Waiting For Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two weeks. Next week, however, some students will begin arriving on campus to participate in one of 22 Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs  (FPOPs), which offer students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As the FPOP website says: Build an underwater vehicle. Make friends. Work in the Cambridge community. Learn what it means to install public interactive art. Kayak. Play robotic soccer. Visit a nuclear reactor. Swing your way through a ropes course. Learn to paint. Roll your own sushi. Wear paper clothing. Travel to Colorado and Northern New Mexico. Spend a day feeding the homeless. Learn about yourself. Challenge yourself. Weve blogged a lot about FPOPs in the past. This years FPOPs include (update 10/27/14: all of these links are dead now that orientation is over, but Im leaving the list just so you know what was offered): DA: Discover Aerospace DAP: Discover Architecture + Planning DBE: Discover Biological Engineering DC1: Discover Course 1 DEAPS: Discover Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (Yellowstone Weather) DEECS: Discover Electrical Engineering and Computer Science DELTA: Discover Energy: Learn, Think, Apply DEAL: Discover Entrepreneurship and Leadership DEW: Discover Exercise and Wellness DHLB: Discover History Literature in Boston DMSE: Discover Material Science and Engineering DME: Discover Mechanical Engineering DNSE: Discover Nuclear Science and Engineering DOE: Discover Ocean Engineering DP: Discover Physics DPD: Discover Product Design DPH: Discover PreHealth DU: Discover UROP FAP: Freshman Arts Program FLP: Freshman Leadership Programs FOP: Freshman Outdoors Program Outward Bound FUP: Freshman Urban Program My all time favorite video filmed by (and starring) MIT students was produced at the 2011 FPOP, when the Class of 2015 were freshman. Now theyre seniors. Wow. Very movie. Much feels.