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John: John is a 20 year student at MIT. He is a sophomore pursuing his degree in Computer Science looking for a summer internship. He has attended the last two career fairs, but he didn’t get any offers. It is the spring semester and he is looking desperately for a summer internship in software development. He is looking through CareerBridge, company websites, and also trying to find possible UROP's or opportunities to work with startups.
Ben: Ben is an MIT student studying Management (Course 15) who has a fantastic idea for a startup. He is looking for business partners to help him in the technical implementation of the product. Currently, he can e-mail the Course 6 department mailing list, and other mailing lists such as individual dorms/fraternities. There is no web platform which can enable him to find partners from the entire MIT community.
Dr. Brian: Dr. Brian is an MIT professor in the Department of Economics. He developed a new model that describes better the interaction in the market, but he needs help developing a simulation to test this new model. He is looking for graduate students for RA’ships or undergraduate students to work as UROP’s in his lab. To advertise the position, he would send it to several department mailing lists.
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