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I don't know about the millennial angle, but minimalism does seem to be on the way out. As a university teacher, I spend a lot of time staring at the lids of laptops (as much as I'…

You started out talking about '#1 university brand', and now you want to pretend you mean the Carnegie categories? Come off it. Not only are they much too coarse-grained, but they'…

No, not education. You guessed wrong about which discipline, and then went on a crazy rant... not a good look for you. There is one of the humanities disciplines that MIT has been …

It's not that I disagree with you exactly, but I think you're overgeneralising from tech. In my discipline (in the humanities) MIT is still top-notch, though has never quite been o…

I'm talking more about brand/'hype' in particular. 15 years ago when I was starting my PhD, everyone adored MIT and wanted to be them. Now I'm faculty at a reasonably good universi…

> MIT is the #1 university brand in the world Nah. Maybe 15 years ago.

Well people use the terms differently, but I think upper-middle class in the UK corresponds roughly to the lower-reaches of the upper class in the US: lots of money, interested in …

Just a note for American readers. In the US calling someone 'middle class' means that they are fairly ordinary salt-of the earth folks living a normal life, but who are not poor an…

This is interesting, but it overlooks the way people often bullshit their way into a higher class. Boris Johnson is a common example of this: he's sort of an everyman's stereotype …

Nah, Oxford.