Questions on MIT's Business School

anon89723960
Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:31:56 +0000

Course 14 doesn’t have the same respect as certain engineering or science majors, I’d say - but it doesn’t have the same stuck-up feeling you get from the Course 15 stereotype.

But, what Vivi said, I absolutely agree. I’m worried that by listing the stereotypes here, they will get taken too seriously. I switched from Biology (a “squishy science”) to EECS (“respectable engineering major”), and it didn’t change anything socially. The stereotypes exist in the form of a very occasional joke (the song “MIT is easy when you study biology”, for example), not day-to-day “Oh, you’re a biology major, so you must be stupid” or “Oh, you’re a Sloanie, you must be a prick”.

Though, for the record, “MIT is easy when you study biology” still annoys the heck out of me :P