I'm going to apply to like...Missouri Institute of Technology and start telling people I went to MIT. It's called MUST.[1] [1] Well, all right, they prefer th

I'm going to apply to like...Missouri Institute of Technology and start telling people I went to MIT. It's called MUST.[1] [1] Well, all right, they prefer the term "Missouri S&T," which abbreviates "Missouri University of Science and Technology." Oddly, the Institute of Technology, one division of the University of Minnesota, is no longer called that, because in this part of the Midwest, "Institute of Technology" sounded too much like a for-profit vocational school, so now the same unit of Minnesota is called the College of Science and Engineering, or C.S.E. for short. When I heard about the name change proposal, I thought, "Hasn't anyone heard of the California Institute of Technology [now Caltech is the preferred name] or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [which is usually called MIT by anyone who knows of it]?"