Yes, MIT’s university culture does genuinely encourage a collaborative project-based approach. However, some grads will believe that the business world expects them to be as brilliant as Tony Stark and able to “carry a message to garcia”[1]. If a course-VI grad wearing brass rat thinks a request for help/feedback will be rebuffed as impostor syndrome (it happens), they can make the same mistake. Ego is the enemy. The blog post’s advice still applies.

[1] https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/pdf/hubbard1899.pdf which is both historically apocryphal and only good advice when dealing with an impatient and incurious leader.