Admissions Office Wonkifies MIT
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The folks in the Admissions Office have been busy cooking up some fabulous videos to showcase MIT. First one aimed at Stephen Colbert, and now this flagship video.
Cowriter and director Chris Peterson, admissions counselor for web communications, says of the video: "Professor Woodie Flowers once told me that 'MIT can be either a steamroller or a candy store: it depends entirely on how you look at it.' We wanted to make a video that showed the candy store side of things." Read his blog post for a full list of credits.
Enjoy!
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Bob Futrelle S…
Wed, 05/23/2012 6:00pm
From my freshman year on, I always viewed MIT, not as a place to take courses, but as a "knowledge cafeteria". I skipped classes if I was engrossed in a book or attending a talk by some outside luminary. I learned a lot about a lot of interesting things. My neglect of classes led to low-ish grades. I was rejected by all the top graduate schools.
But I was accepted into the PhD programs in EE and Physics at MIT because they knew I was a born researcher, much more of a researcher than most of the "classes and tests" trained UGs.
Knowing a lot about a lot of things got rid of any arrogance I might have had. No matter how much I knew, I knew that I knew about only a tiny fraction of the huge world out there. This was humbling and I think my humbleness was obvious to others. I still feel kind of dumb after 50+ busy years of research and 60-+ published papers.
I was lucky to have full careers in physics, then biology, then computer science. I'm now working hard on computational linguistics in retirement. Take my word for it, the complexity and subtlety of natural language will (or should ) make anyone humble.
Cahrlie Miller…
Sun, 05/06/2012 4:50pm
I'm having a hard time finding a job in part because MIT's image is such that most people believe that graduates are arrogant know-it-all jerks who are hard to work with. Most people making hiring decisions are not directly tied into the profit of the company. Most people would rather work with someone fun who helps profits a bit than with someone who is a jerk, even if the jerk can substantially raise corporate profits.
Hopefully, this video will teach many parents and students who wind up going to other schools that MIT graduates are, in fact, very fun to work with.
MIT needs to change its image. This video will help.