I find universities valuable because they are basically reincarnated every 4 or 5 years. Ah ha! That's where we differ. My university experience made me feel

I find universities valuable because they are basically reincarnated every 4 or 5 years. Ah ha! That's where we differ. My university experience made me feel it was a huge cancerously-growing bureaucracy that doesn't really want to change. A huge bureaucracy with draconian rules whose goals were to never inconvenience any employee of the university at the expense of student time and frustration. [[ At one point, they threatened to suspend my registration privileges because I WWW::Mechanize-automated my registration against their crappy web registration system. They kept telling me I was a horrible person for violating the "honor code" and "computer use policy" and I had no recourse but to write a lengthy letter of apology before they allowed me to register again. fun times. ]]