The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. It turned out to be a complete dud. I went there to do Communications and Electronic Engi

The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. It turned out to be a complete dud. I went there to do Communications and Electronic Engineering in 1981 because it was famous (our own MIT) and hard to get into and I was very disappointed. Like two other institutions I have encountered, the good people were vastly outnumbered by the bad ones. I kept having the feeling that we were being taught engineering by a bunch of failed engineers who couldn't hack it in the real world. That turned out to be true when I worked with some of them later on. They were bright enough for rote memory and battling fellow academics but they had no real feeling for what they were doing. One of my biggest regrets is that I had an opportunity to move to another uni, less famous but still accredited, after my first year (Freshman) and I didn't take it. I eventually dropped out in third year (Junior).