Thursday, April 12, 2012

USA Today: "Brains + Tech = The New Cool"


MIT and the MIT Basketball team were featured in a recent photo gallery by USA Today.

Read more here: http://mediagallery.usatoday.com/Brains+++tech+=+the+new+cool/G3572

"MIT guard Mitchell Kates has established himself as one of the nation's top players. MIT does not give out athletic scholarships, and students compete for the love of the game. This year, the Engineers competing in the Div III basketball Final Four had to study on the road and take exams early in some cases" 

"As more Americans use technology and depend increasingly on the skills of those who know how to make their gadgets work, the image of the socially inept brainiac is slowly being dispelled to reveal a new portrait: Geeks are cool"