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Ash wants to share his MIT experience with newcomers so that they may get the most out of MIT. He wants to impart his wisdom to the young’uns, warn them of perils, and inform them of the best locations on campus.
>> As current MIT students who help out during CPW and REX, we have all had prefrosh come into our living groups who are curious about each dorm’s particular culture. However, with the large number of prefrosh passing coming and going, it is hard to sustain a long conversation about the reality of MIT life. Also, for those students unable to visit MIT, particularly internationalsinternational admits, they will get little to no chances chance at interacting with actual MIT students. Our site will provide an efficient interface for prefrosh to get in touch with current MIT students , who are willing to share their personal experiences, and prefrosh to get in touch with each other.
Task Analysis
Our website is intended as home-browsing, leisurely activity. Thus, all of the below tasks will likely be performed indoors at a desk, on a computer, and the individual tasks have no time constraints and will likely be performed about once a week during the times that high school students are making their decisions (mid-March to the end of April about MIT, then June about dorms) and the MIT students are offering their personal experiences (potentially all year round, but with spikes during CPW and REX).
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