[frognumber]

I liked MIT when it was "increasingly recognized yet still underdog" a lot.

With ambitions, there are different levels:

- An ambitious scientist should be driven to make ambitious discoveries

- An ambitious scientist should not be driven to steal credit, fake results, hype, oversell, and defraud

MIT's culture changed over the past 20 years. High competition (e.g. 4:1) leads to the type of people who do good work. With insane competition (e.g. 1000:1), the only way to "win" is to cheat.