<p>Are students at Sloan looked down upon by other MIT students? My friend's sister who goes there says the biz majors are seen as engineers that couldn't cut it. </p>
<p>The reason I ask is that I'm helping a friend build their college list. They're interested in the more quantitative side of business so Sloan seemed great, except I would like to know if the above is true. If it is, I'd still recommend it, just with a disclaimer. :)</p>
<p>Well, yes and no. </p>
<p>I mean, for one thing, many Sloanies are engineers who couldn't cut it, hence the attitude. And MIT is a hard-work-ocracy; we all love to complain about how hard our psets are and how many papers we have due this week, and Sloanies don't ever join in the breast-beating fests because their work isn't as hard. (Snobbery among nerds.)</p>
<p>From what I've seen, people who come into MIT knowing they want to major in business don't get as much attitude. It's mostly the people who come in all "oh I'm totally going to be the most 1337 h4x0r course 6 has ever seen" and then switch to Sloan at the end of freshman year after failing half their classes who draw scorn.</p>
<p>(Arr, I don't think there's any way to write this other than the way I did, which sounds terribly stuck-up and snobby to me. How about I add the disclaimer "the views expressed above are not necessarily the views of MIT or of molliebatmit herself, but a set of observations made over three years of MIT life.")</p>
<p>The disclaimer makes sense. To the outside world, a student at Sloan is still a student who got into MIT, after all.</p>
<p><em>meep</em></p>
<p>I could not resist responding to this thread.</p>
<p>I have to second a couple things mollieb said. </p>
<p>First, we DO love to complain about the workload (usually because there is so much to complain about :P).</p>
<p>This constant need to complain about the workload sometimes manifests itself in the form of claiming others have it easier. Unfortunately, the sloanies have found themselves on the receiving end of some of this frustration. The prevailing opinion here is that the sloanies have it easier than the engineering majors. Whether this is true or not, I honestly don't know because I haven't taken any classes at sloan. I think a lot of this has to do with the prevailing opinion about Harvard students. I guess to some, the sloan students are similar to Harvard students. A lot of us like to picture Harvard students having wild parties every night and caking their way through the year. Obviously, this is exagerated somewhat, which is likely the case for the sloan students. </p>
<p>I too have seen my share of 1337 h4x0r freshman change their mind after freshman year. I think that a few of the sloan converts long ago might have started or perpetuated the comments about the sloanies by claiming they have it so easy.</p>
<p>PS: I must complain about the workload I had this weekend! I just finished a 42-page technical CI-M paper and haven't slept yet. I have a test in two hours that is worth a quarter of my grade that I wasn't able to adequately study for. Four-day weekend? Blah! I worked every day :P What can I say, Mollieb was right!</p>
<p>By the way, how do you pronounce "1337 h4x0r"? I'm still learning the lingo.</p>
<p>I believe it's 'leet haxor.'</p>
<p>Hey I am back again. I think you have it right. Thats the way I think about it anyway...</p>
<p>Thanks. You guys were very helpful. :)</p>