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“Everything feels possible here … the MIT ecosystem is amazing,” said Benedetta Magni, a Master of Finance student who will graduate in February 2025. Magni, who grew up in Monaco, is also simultaneously completing a Master of International Management from HEC Paris.
“The MFin program at MIT Sloan gives a very technical, innovative and future-oriented take on finance, and I love it,” she said.
Since coming here, Magni has also explored new professional interests such as event planning, entrepreneurship, and venture capital, as well as yoga and Pilates. When she’s not in class or studying, she’s spending time with the MIT Volleyball Club and the MIT Sloan Italy Club.
This summer, she’s doing an investment banking internship at Perella Weinberg Partners in London. As for future career plans? “As I spend more time here, the more I am convinced I want to create something of my own, that has positive impact on people’s lives.”
A Day with Benedetta
8:20 a.m.
To stay hydrated on campus, I start my mornings with water, and will have an iced latte and a green tea later in the day.
8:30 a.m.
Heading into Analytics of Finance, I’m hoping we don’t have a quiz! I like the class because it’s quantitative, which is fun. Professor Hui Chen provides a very good overview of the analytics landscape in finance, and we learn a lot of useful tools that will be increasingly important in the workplace.
9:50 a.m.
My days are always busy, but Tuesdays are one of my busiest days because I have four different lectures and volleyball training at night. My day starts at 8:30 a.m. with my first class, and it doesn’t finish until the end of my training at 10:30 p.m.
10:00 a.m.
The MFin students are a tight cohort, and I have a great group of close friends, including Luca Beaujean, MFin ’25, who I’m hugging here. Having the MIT Sloan campus pretty much to ourselves – for the most part – over the summer term brings us all a lot closer together. Being an MFin student is amazing because you meet a bunch of wonderful people and we really look out for each other.
10:05 a.m.
Ismail Mouelhi, MFin ’24, Ahmed Wakrim, MFin ’25, and I are getting ready for the Mergers, Acquisitions and Private Equity class with senior lecturer Nathaniel Gregory which is about to start.
10:15 a.m.
The Mergers, Acquisitions and Private Equity class is case-based, and I enjoy getting a less-technical and more strategic vision of mergers and acquisitions transactions, plus there are some excellent guest speakers.
11:40 a.m.
I’m able to grab a quick lunch with friends today – standing at the very left is Rayen Ayari, MFin ’25, and sitting facing the camera is Nikolaos Pollalis, MFin ’25. I usually grab something at the Sloan cafeteria when I don’t have meetings or events, or I go somewhere close to Sloan like Tatte or Brothers, then go study.
2:30 p.m.
Victoria Tostado Bringas, an MIT Sloan Fellow MBA, and I are co-funding a fintech startup aimed at helping small and medium farmers in Mexico to access funding more easily. We are in the second round of Sandbox, the MIT accelerator. A program like Sandbox – which provides seed funding and mentorship – is also a unique opportunity for undergraduate and graduate student innovators, which naturally lends itself to cross-program collaboration.
2:50 p.m.
I absolutely love the Applied Behavioral Economics class with Professor Drazen Prelec! It’s probably one of my favorite classes. I had never really studied behavioral economics concepts before, but I find it fascinating. It considers general economic theories from a very different perspective.
4:00 p.m.
I chose Practice of Finance: Social Impact Investing with senior lecturer Gita Rao because I would love for my work to have a positive impact and to create some sort of benefit from whatever I end up doing in my life. Getting to know the industry better while hearing about and the extensive experience of Rao and other guest speakers has been extremely enriching.
4:15 p.m.
The social impact investing class has given us a solid overview of both public and private impact-related financial markets, and we’ve also had the chance to work alongside impact startups.
