Student life
An MIT education is about more than what’s taught in the classroom; it’s also about learning by doing. MIT’s student life programs provide these crucial learning experiences, and help prepare students for service to society.
To the Institute, these programs are imperative. Today’s world calls for a new kind of leader—one who can motivate, inspire, and marshal teams of people to address problems of global scale.
MIT funds a host of campus programs and activities that encourage students to pilot their own leadership strategies and define for themselves the roles they want to play in life. Whatever form it takes, the experience of learning by doing—translating personal experience into valuable knowledge—has become an essential element of learning at MIT.
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Finding a new field
Grace Chou ’05
Grace Chou owns no stocks herself, but as a child she watched the financial
news with her dad, and her mom taught her to read the stock pages.
Now, thanks to UROP, the 19-year-old junior—a management major
with plans to become a stock analyst—has discovered that there’s
more to business than just economics.
For the past year, Chou has worked on a project with Prof. Dan Ariely,
an expert in behavioral finance—a field that combines economics
and psychology. The team’s research will help determine investors’ decisions
to buy and sell. Researchers hope their findings will help investors
cope with the volatility of the stock market.
Collaborating with a professor, says Chou, has been great. “I’ve
learned so much from him. Most 19-year-olds don’t get the opportunity
to do actual research.
“And I never thought I’d be studying psychology!” she
adds. “I always thought I’d stick to business. But now I
see that psychology is a way to look at business in a deeper dimension.
Because of UROP, I’ve found a new field I love.”
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