By Jeff Schmitt | Poets & Quants | 11/9/2024
MIT is often associated with engineers, techies, and scientists. Introverts, they think – focused and serious, always too busy for fun. That’s too bad. Those people are missing out on a great time at MIT!
Take alumni from the Sloan School of Management like Sid Agrawal. A 2024 grad, Agrawal observed that “Sloanies take their work serious, but don’t take themselves too seriously.” Over two years, he adds, Sloan was a place where he was challenged, but also surrounded by a community of “down-to-earth, compassionate people” from a wide range of backgrounds. Even more, Agrawal adds, the MBA program wasn’t designed for quants who excelled in STEM fields, either.
“While Sloan mandates the statistics-based course, Data, Models, and Decisions (DMD), in its core curriculum, it also offers remarkable flexibility beyond that. My experience included excellent analytics courses alongside diverse classes in entrepreneurship, finance, and leadership, which aren’t strictly quant-focused. A prime example of Sloan’s broad curriculum is the unique “Rap Theory and Practice” course by rapper Lupe Fiasco, a visiting artist at MIT.”
