Posted on 04/12/2023 2:24:02 AM PDT by zeestephen
100 Page Photo Gallery - You can speed dial to #1 MIT by holding down an arrow key - #2 is Harvey Mudd College (one of the seven Claremont Colleges near Los Angeles) which specializes in science and engineering with just 900 students - #3 Princeton University - #4 U.S. Naval Academy - #5 Stanford University
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Old boss had a bit of an inferiority complex going with MIT and it’s graduates. Don’t know why, as he was a brilliant and resourceful engineer in his own right, heavily relied-upon.
The median wealth of a school’s graduates has little to do with the quality of the school. Instead, the schools at the top of the list are going to be those that don’t offer useless majors that leave graduates incapable of earning a decent living in that field.
MIT isn’t at the top of the list because it’s the best school. It’s at the top of the list because it doesn’t have a “gender studies” department.
My Dad had just turned 20 when Pearl Harbor was attacked.
My Dad had exceptional tool and repair skills, and the Army sent him to MIT to learn everything about the brand new radar equipment.
After the War, he spent one semester at Northwestern University, got married, had my older brother, and had to drop out to support his new family.
He built a successful blue collar business.
We lived in a nice upper middle class neighborhood and all our neighbors were white collar professionals.
At social occasions, whenever someone asked him where he went to college, he would tell them - LOL - "I studied at MIT and Northwestern."
Son went to #23, Rose-Hulman. He doesn’t make zbigbucks since he chose a career in transportation planning in Nova Scotia, but he’s happy doing what he’s wanted to do ever since he was five, building arcologies using the original version of Sim City.
That’s Harry!
Yup, that's Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd, not Harvey Mudd College.
Sorry, it sounded funnier in my early morning pre-coffee mind when I posted it.
I’ve worked with two MIT guys, (Engineering). Both very smart, one a complete *hole, with the maturity of an 8th-grader.
Re: No respect for Harvard graduates.
As a five-time rejectee (Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, internship, residency, and fellowship), I spent the first twenty years of my career with the “they’re not so great” cope.
In the last twenty years, I’ve kind of come around to “Yeah, they’re pretty great, all right, most of ‘em”.
I worked for 25 years at one of Harvard Medical School’s teaching hospitals. As I’m sure that you can imagine each June’s crop of interns were the top graduates from Harvard...Columbia...Hopkins...etc. The funny thing was that you could always tell the Harvard grads because they could talk for six hours about the uvula but if you handed them a pop up umbrella they were clueless.
The headline says “richest” but bases that on graduate income. Keep in mind that the already rich people don’t need to chase income, and that is particularly true of the young ladies. Just my take on this.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd…you miserable Sot.
#65. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott. Cool! My daughter is at ERAU in Daytona Beach. Maybe she can take care of me in my old age. LOL!
“ Both very smart, one a complete *hole, with the maturity of an 8th-grader.”
Hey, we are a school that measured a bridge in lengths of passed out fraternity brother.
(I’m a double MIT grad. BS/MS engineering.)
Not sure about now, but back in the day, MIT was a regular bastion of conservatism in a sea of Boston commies.
Gotcha!
Engineers and STEM people are still conservative. Either a bridge stands for 50+ years or it does not. You cannot wish it to last longer because the designer was the first transgendered civil engineer.
That was my first thought, rich got them to those schools in the first place.
The service academies are in the top 25 — USNA (#4, my alma mater), USMA (#9), USAFA (#20), USMMA (#25). All have gone “military woke,” but they don’t offer degrees in Lesbian Dance Theory...yet.
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