MIT英文介绍

MIT英⽂介绍
Good afternoon. The university I’d like to introduce to you all is
MIT--- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hope you like it.
1. 地理位置
MIT is a comprehensive private university in the US. It is one of the most famous polytechnic universit ies over the world. It is located in Massachusetts, Cambridge, Charles River, with the Boston Back Bay.And it adjacents to Harvard.
名字由来
MIT's correct translation name shall be the Massachusetts state institute of technology, but because MIT was translated into Massachusetts province institute of technology as early as the qing dynasty, then the name went ahead with it.
Mascot :beaver
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2. This is the school seal of MIT.
“year 1861”refers to the date (April 10th, 1861) the MIT was incorporated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts .
“S cience and Arts” reflect s the ideal of cooperation between knowledge and practice.
图标意义
The school motto of MIT is "Mens et Manus", which translates from the Latin to "Mind and Hand." The motto reflects the educational ideals of MIT's founders who were promoting, above all, education for practical application.
3. Here are the three aspects I would talk today.
4. MIT campus covers an area of 168 acres. The central campus is consisted by a group of interconnected buildings.
5.It very odd that all the buildings in the campus are labeled by digitals.Do you know why? It’s said students there believe numbers are easier to be found. Maybe the MIT is the kingdom of engineers.
6. Let’s step into the campus, to see if there is anything interesting.
建筑物
This is Killian Hall, the symbol construction of MIT. It’s the place where important ceremonies and events are held, just like our Action Center
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Simmons building
This is Simmons building, a ten-story dormitory for 350 undergraduate students and faculty. Astonished by its 6,000 operable windows, aren’t you?The whole building features by balconies and doorways. It includes a computer cluster, fitness center, music rooms and street-level dining.
Media lab
This is the Media lab.It was designed by IM Pei—the World-class
architect. The complex houses the Office of the Arts, the Design Lab as well as MIT's Program in Comparative Media Studies.
Stata Center
This irregular and creative building is Stata Center. It is the home of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Oh, foget its ugly ,disorganize ,imposing appearance.
7.And here I’d add a group of data information about MIT.
MIT wireless network has been installed throughout the campus, a total of 3500 reception points , which is even out of the external one kilometer , the reception rate is still more than 97%.
There are 60 sets of high speed laser printer, it not only can automatic printing pros and cons, but also print speed for each minute 90 copies, These high speed laser printer scatter in every corner of the campus, students and professors can use any computer to print at any printer, this has great help for study and research
MIT’s library resource is rich, the collection is up to 5 million copies.
MIT has implemented its Open Course Site, it was announced 500 courses (by the end of 2006, it has already opened 2000 courses), aiming to establish global unity of knowledge base, which make users from all over the world study the professional knowledge content through the network
The ratio of teachers and students is 1 to 7, such a high proportion is rare among the United States . Because the number of students is not so much, professors have enough energy to care about the students' work and development
8. Now I want to share some very famous people to you all.
Hsue-shen Tsien the father of China's missile and space
technology programme Air dynamics master Ben Bernanke chairman of the Federal Reserve of US
doctor of economic
Robert Mundell father of Euro doctor of economic
Kofi Atta Annan master's degree in school of management
Samuel ting the Nobel Prize for physics
professor of MIT department of physics
IM Pei World-class architect Bachelor of Architecture
C harles Zhang sohu CEO doctor of MIT
There are also 55 Nobel prize winners and five Turing winners
9.发明
Kismet is a robot made in the late 1990s at MIT. The robot's auditory, visual and expressive systems were intended to allow it to participate in human social interaction and to demonstrate simulated human emotion and appearance. The name Kismet comes from the Arabic, which means
"fate" or sometimes "luck".
Whirlwind computer
early electronic computer. Introduced the advanced real-time processing concept, Whirlwind computer adopted the first mature operating system.And it is the first one which used display as output device. It had a enormous influence in commercial computer in 1960s
3d camera
It can use laser to catch target information behind the obstacle, and use these information generated 3d model through 3d imaging technology
10 .Found the magnetic theory, control theory.
The spatial planning which collaborate with NASA
MIT announced that they have been using electric magnetic technology successfully, which can transmit power without using wire, and it has made a 60 watt bulb lighting. This means that mobile phones, notebook computers, small home appliance can wireless charging and do not need to use batteries or charging socket in the future
11world ranking
12 学院：
School of Engineering is the most difficult subject but each year its applicants are the most
Alfred P. Sloan School of Management the Boeing Company CEO, hp CEO were graduated from there
13学习
There has a lounge in Humanities and Science libraries called“24 hour study”. Here you can find all kinds of students studying in various ways. Students in MIT read regardless of time, and sleep regardless of places.
As a professor in MIT said "Excellent are not good enough ". This kind of high strength study is known as "pressure cooker”. The first semester of freshmen class doesn't indicate the exam results by marks, but just by the words "pass" or "fail". There is no doubt that the university governor wants to make the students feel better and less pressure.
In the 3S Evaluation System- 3S means study, sleep and social activities, the general MIT students can only get two, if anyone can get three, he or she would be called superman or superwoman
14.The MIT is called mad-house to people who don’t understand the MIT. However, the most success lies in its unique education method. "The most basic attention point is research, namely independently to explore new problems". Here is a course: students each get a full of spring, electrical elements such as boxes, the requirement is simple and clear---using the above material to design and assemble a machine.
Just because of this singular, peculiar and different environment,
MIT brings up a large number of noted scientists, who dedicates their whole lives into education career and science research. Correspondingly, MIT becomes one of the most popular universities for the worldwide students.
13. Tricks
The new term has just started, the famous MIT mark which was in front of the Stata Center was added with V and O by hackers, Here you could see the Picture “vomit”, in order to show their resistances about the new session.
In the eve of Microsoft popular game "Halo3" Opening, a few MIT students secretly ran into Harvard campus at midnight, and turned John Harvard statue, the founder of Harvard, into the figure of halo. Here is the picture, John Harvard wearing a helmet and machine guns. Oh, they also attached removing description behind the statue.
Can you image how embarrassed the Harvard students are?。