Orientation

A highly focused one-week session before the start of classes, Orientation gives students a running start on the MIT Sloan experience.

Through a variety of challenging group exercises, students are introduced to the unsettling truth that business problems don't come in tidy packages, but spill out chaotically across disciplines and departments. Orientation helps students grasp at a gut level that a crucial part of leadership is the ability to define such complex problems, and bring diverse skills and people together to get things done.

Orientation is also designed to help students chart their own unique path to success. Because we know that students who get the most from their MIT Sloan experience are those who begin with the clearest personal and professional goals, Orientation includes exercises that help students pinpoint what they hope to gain from their two years at MIT Sloan.

And with activities from picnics and Red Sox games to community service projects and citywide scavenger hunts, Orientation includes plenty of relaxed opportunities for students to get to know each other and learn their way around the city.