I have reached this late point in my senior year without fulfilling
the requirement of three HASS-D's in separate categories.  I have
indeed taken three HASS-D's, but two were in category five, that of
Historical Studies, the other being in Language, Thought, and Value.
Thus, I am petitioning to be allowed to graduate with this
non-standard distribution of HASS-D's.  I did not pick my classes to
avoid work or uninteresting material; I honestly believed one of my
history classes was instead a Cultural Studies class, which is where
the emphasis of the class lay.  I feel that I have achieved the goals
of the HASS-D requirement in that my intellectual range has been
broadened and my understanding of the humanities has increased over
the last four years.  While at MIT I've danced in class and in
DanceTroupe, attended a great many theater productions, read a wide
variety of books on my own and in classes, and traveled all over the
world.  In short, I think my range of activities and classes is
sufficient to overshadow my accidental overlap of HASS-D's, and that I
should be allowed to graduate in June.