[one guy in new jersey]

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.

[zeestephen]

Re: MIT

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."

[Gay State Conservative]

My Dad worked for 40+ years at a company that employed many,many Harvard *and* MIT graduates. He never had a lot of respect for the Harvard grads (he thought they had an overly “optimistic” opinion of themselves) but he had *huge* respect for the MIT grads.