To: All
Hi All,
I wanted to share some thoughts about Sloan from the 2+ months that I have been here:
Program size – I don’t know how would it have been in a large program but Sloan is 370-400 student a year and this is considered a relatively small program. Being a part of a smaller program has many benefits and much less disadvantages in my mind. One example is the individual support we can receive from staff and career development office which would have been more challenging in a larger program. Another example is your ability to influence in clubs and in other channels, I assume that if we would have been twice as large it would not have been the same. On the flip side I did not find many occurrences where this has limited anything, 750-800 people at Sloan still is a good size group.
Boston area – Boston is a thriving area in the BioTech industry and also in high tech and other industries. Many startups are located in the area and this is a great opportunity for us aspiring entrepreneurs to reach out to them and get advice and learn. Just this week I met with a startup founder from the area, a Sloany ’04, also happen to be Israeli and he cleared an hour for me and 3 more class mates to tell us about his experience in founding his company.
Being part of the MIT community is a huge asset – as Sloanies we have access to all of MIT’s resources and it is very common to send a mail to a professor in another school and talk to him about an idea you have. MIT also has very extensive support for entrepreneurs in developing the product, finding the right team and funding.
There are many more aspects which I can continue to write about like the different tracks, academics, spirit, but let’s leave something for the future.
Ronen
