<p>I’m wondering if MIT has a Business/Finance club of some sort. I’ve searched on their website but the one club I found - sbsfund.com - was already gone and inaccessible.</p>
<p>Therefore, it would be great if any of you could offer me some help. </p>
<p>Does such a club exist? If so, who is it in charge of this student organization that I can contact for more information?</p>
<p>Also, I read in May’s issue of Business week that MIT is ranked fourth for Business graduates. If this is the case, my gut feeling is that an organization i’m looking for should exist. Would appreciate if you guys could help me out. :)</p>
<p>Well, there’s the [Sloan</a> Undergraduate Management Association](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/suma/]Sloan”>http://web.mit.edu/suma/). I’m quite positive that there are others (there’s a club for everything at MIT), but that’s the only one I know as a non-management person.</p>
<p>The largest one is SEBC (web.mit.edu/sebc), especially for finance. SUMA is similar but for sloan majors only and operates rather differently. Very unique to MIT is the entrepreneurs club (web.mit.edu/e-club), although it’s not really about finance. And I can think of four or five more. The best person to contact for more information about business clubs at MIT, believe it or not, is probably me (although I have passed down all of my official leadership positions to underclassmen).
If there’s anything you want to know, IM or PM me; unfortunately certain things I would get in trouble for saying publicly :o</p>
<p>Unless it’s a very general question about how great MIT’s entrepreneurial community is (aka fantastic)
If the concern is merely that MIT is lacking in finance-related student organizations, then you’re very much in luck, since the institute’s strength in that department compares very favorably even with Harvard and Penn :-)</p>
<p>Thanks everyone! I found some of those as well, though not all. Hm…it’s strange that I didn’t find these while browsing MIT’s website. Then again, their website is pretty big.</p>
<p>Anyhow, what do you guys think of the idea of forming an alliance between my school’s organization and that of MIT’s? Do you think it would be effective and that it could help?</p>
<p>You mean your high school’s organization? I don’t think that would be very effective
If you mean your university, I’ve seen this tried a couple time and it hasn’t been that effective; but it’s not impossible</p>
<p>You’re in high school; what’s your big attraction to finance anyway? IMHO, it’s really not that interesting, especially the kind of things you do with a Sloan degree (as opposed to math degree)</p>
<p>Also, Sloan Finance is an MBA club, and they are kind of boring ;o
Just get into MIT, and figure it out once you’re here</p>
<p>Hm…the problem is that at first, I tried searching for a business/finance organization/association that my club could become a part of. I have come up with nothing since the ones I found such as NAF and FBLA are restricted to american students only. Being an international student, this excludes us.</p>
<p>As such, I decided that perhaps I could instead get our club associated with a reputable university’s club instead, to gain valuable insight and in this case, perhaps internships.</p>
<p>That’s one heck of a nonsequitur. I don’t see any reason to believe that the Sloan Finance club is any more boring than any other club at MIT. If you’re not interested in finance, then obviously you are going to find it boring, but that’s true of any club. </p>
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<p>Heh, well, I’m sure that the Sloanies probably think that a math degree is boring.</p>
<p>Look, River Phoenix, there’s no need to make snarky remarks about Sloan. If you don’t like what Sloan has to offer, or you don’t like finance, then don’t do it. Nobody is forcing you. Let the people who like that stuff pursue it without interference.</p>
<p>Sakky, first of all since Sloan Finance is an MBA club, undergraduates Can’t Join. And I have nothing against sloan, just that the kind of finance jobs sloan students tend to go into is IBD (aka making powerpoints); although they can go into some more interesting fields, these sectors of the investment bank often look for technical degrees.
And I happen to have quite a bit of knowledge about the various clubs; in particular the Sloan Finance club not only is not an undergraduate club (so you can’t really join), but they aren’t even a club: the exclusive thing they do is to provide the service of setting up the information events for various banks to recruit MBA students - which is a community service for the MBA students and a good way for members of the club to network. However, I am very confident that it is not the club the OP was looking for.
I am all for quesce getting involved with SUMA, which is also a sloan club, but it is for Undergraduates, and they actually have club activities.</p>
<p>Let me put it to you this way. There were PLENTY of Sloan undergrads hanging around the club before. Sure, they probably weren’t “official” members (I didn’t ask) but they hung around enough and participated in enough activities to make them, honestly, more active than some of the official members were. </p>
<p>Look, the truth is, nobody is actually going to ‘check’ your membership status. These clubs are all highly informal. If you participate in the activities and are known to the other members, then that basically makes you a de-facto member yourself. </p>
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<p>And that’s EXACTLY what some students are looking for. I hesitate to speculate as to exactly what Quesce is looking for, so I would rather that he pursue the avenue himself and if he finds it to not meet his needs, then that will be his decision. We shouldn’t make that decision for him. Maybe he does want networking. Who knows? The truth is, business is mostly about networking. It’s not what you know, it’s WHO you know.</p>
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<p>See, there it is again, you’re making another judgmental statement. Believe me, some people find IB jobs to be EXTREMELY interesting, far more interesting than the technical modeling jobs that you seem to prefer. You SAY that you have nothing against Sloanies, but then you make the strong implication that they end up with uninteresting jobs. That’s just another snarky comment. There’s no need to go around questioning other people’s choice of career. If they like that stuff, then leave them alone.</p>
<p>SEBC and SUMA currently have a bigger presence on campus, especially undergraduate - that’s all I was saying… they both do more networking (and in far broader scope) than the other clubs.
I have nothing against people who like making powerpoints and writing reports, but it is my belief that the average person doesn’t find that extremely interesting.
Simply, I was addressing the poster as a high schooler who thought of “business” as some single thing in the sky, without fully understanding its scope. A large percentage of my best friends are Sloan majors, and I’m mostly repeating their sentiments, not my own…</p>
<p>Apologies to everyone. I guess I should have made my question more clear. I am looking for an active, undergraduate club and as I said before I am certain it exists but the problem is that I am unable to reach a direct contact with them.</p>
<p>Links through their websites mostly lead to clubs which are for postgraduate programs or MBAs, I am looking for something that is for undergraduates. However, I think I have found what I was looking for. Thanks everyone! :)</p>