Confessions of a prospective business student

Colleges & Universities Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Okay, I’m going to be upfront with you. I’m more of a humanities girl than a science one, and I’m pretty much set on attending undergraduate business school. Enter MIT, which has a top undergrad B-school. Should I be scared from it due to the general reqs of MIT (something like 4 credits of science, per science), or would it make a science-lover out of me?</p>

<p>Or should I just resign myself to knowing MIT wouldn’t want me anyway? :-)</p>

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<p>You wouldn’t want MIT, more to the point.</p>

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<p>Well, it’s not quite that much science – at the moment, the requirements are seventeen courses, of which eight are humanities classes.</p>

<p>You do have to be able to survive those science classes, and the management major at MIT includes some not-cakewalky classes (in particular, 6.041, which is a probability and statistics course for EECS majors). They also have to take a programming class and linear algebra. (Degree chart [here](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/catalogue/degre.manag.ch15.shtml]here[/url]”>http://web.mit.edu/catalogue/degre.manag.ch15.shtml)</a>.)</p>

<p>To me, it’s not so much a question of liking the science and math as it is being able to handle it. I mean, I really don’t like physics, but I busted my hump through the two physics classes required by the GIRs, even though I wouldn’t have voluntarily taken them.</p>

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<p>Thanks! I’m in AP Chem right now, and I love it… but I’ve yet to decide whether I love the material or whether I love the teacher.</p>

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<p>It appears that you have real chemistry with the teacher. Maybe, when you’re out of school, you guys can bond.</p>

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<p>Nah, I prefer taking some antiderivatives. After all, who wouldn’t love exploring the area under their curves?</p>

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<p>I like geometry myself, as in this quip from Theodore Roethke’s “I Knew a Woman”:</p>

<p>Love likes a gander, and adores a goose:
Her full lips pursed, the errant notes to sieze;
She played it quick, she played it light and loose;
My eyes, they dazzled at her flowing knees;
Her several parts could keep a pure repose,
Or one hip quiver with a mobile nose
(She moved in circles, and those circles moved). </p>

<p>Oh, those circles…</p>