Thursday, February 03, 2005
As a SDM student, I take classes at MIT Sloan School of Business and MIT School of Engineering.
This is a generalization from my observation of the classes that I have
attended so far at MIT, but I see a pattern emerging here. I have found
that there is a difference in presentation, discussion style, and most
of personality between students at MIT Sloan and students at the rest
of the MIT campus. Let's start off with attire. Sloan students
definitely got the polished
look. Most students at Sloan are dressed up. Students at the rest of
MIT belong are part of the blue jeans culture. Even the professors are
different, professors at Sloan typically wear suit and tie, non-Sloan
professors on the other hand are causally dressed sometimes even
scruffy. At Sloan, students usually draw from their experience when
participating in class discussion. At the rest of MIT, sutdents who are
usually younger, are more precise and curious in their discussion. Last
but not least, since almost all management classes are structured as
class discussions, there are a lot of interaction among students and
the teaching staff in the class. At non-Sloan classes, I have found
that there are much fewer opportunities for ineraction. This is a CRUDE OBSERVATION since I have only been at MIT for a month.