I would add to that MIT taught me how to learn new topics very quickly without much handholding at all. That's the skill that makes one not so prone to obsess o

I would add to that MIT taught me how to learn new topics very quickly without much handholding at all. That's the skill that makes one not so prone to obsess on one framework versus the other, because if necessary you can learn both. Back in the day (perhaps still the case today?) there was not a single "learn to code" in some specific language anywhere in MIT's EECS department. There was Sussman's SICP class which taught scheme more or less in the first week. Barbara Liskov's class taught her research language named CLU more or less the same way. As a short diversion before getting to the meat of the course.