Don't know why, but I guessed U of P. Probably it is my favorite Ivy League school to hate. I'm sure I will offend many, but if you have ever attended a U of P faculty event, you have experienced the purest caricature of name dropping and self praising imaginable. Embarrassingly so, and they all bask in it.
Anyone who is offended by the truth should not come to Free Republic.
Although I never became one myself, I grew up around heavily-degreed academics and your description reminds me of some of the reasons why I chose a different path. I am delighted that you have resisted the cancer of the mind and the soul that afflicts so very many of them, causing them to be utterly unbearable in polite society. I'm sorry to hear that you have been subjected to such awful displays, as I have no doubt that they do not cause your heart to swell with pride for the teaching professions. I'm hoping that you will come to FR regularly to 'vent'....dealing with that sort of thing on a regular basis would surely be a horrific punishment for any truly thoughtful person, which you certainly seem to be. Thank you very much for your insights and your post.
Penn professors tend to think that they poop flowers and fart perufme. We have a Penn graduate on faculty at my school and he's a pompous windbag.