[woofie11]

Increasingly, you can replace "is" with "was."

Over time, MIT's acceptance of diversity, intellectual and otherwise, has waned. Right now, it's the top university brand in the world. That's a tightrope political game to play, and MIT optimizes to it very well. It's been a slow process for many decades, but it's really accelerated recently.

I'm not sure what the better schools are now. I've heard good things about Georgia Tech.

We do need nerd camps and nerd schools still. The old MIT was awesome.