cardiology-fat

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by cardiology-fat 5y ago
I don't know about the millennial angle, but minimalism does seem to be on the way out. As a university teacher, I spend a lot of time staring at the lids of laptops (as much as I'd like to ban them). Back in the late 2000s, those
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by cardiology-fat 5y ago
You started out talking about '#1 university brand', and now you want to pretend you mean the Carnegie categories? Come off it. Not only are they much too coarse-grained, but they're also (by design) US-centric. I'm at s
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by cardiology-fat 5y ago
No, not education. You guessed wrong about which discipline, and then went on a crazy rant... not a good look for you. There is one of the humanities disciplines that MIT has been excellent in for several decades... if you don't know w
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by cardiology-fat 5y ago
It's not that I disagree with you exactly, but I think you're overgeneralising from tech. In my discipline (in the humanities) MIT is still top-notch, though has never quite been on a par with Princeton. Research integrity isn&#x2
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by cardiology-fat 5y ago
I'm talking more about brand/'hype' in particular. 15 years ago when I was starting my PhD, everyone adored MIT and wanted to be them. Now I'm faculty at a reasonably good university in Europe, and obviously MIT is
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by cardiology-fat 5y ago
> MIT is the #1 university brand in the world Nah. Maybe 15 years ago.
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by cardiology-fat 5y ago
Well people use the terms differently, but I think upper-middle class in the UK corresponds roughly to the lower-reaches of the upper class in the US: lots of money, interested in high culture, maybe expensive private schools and multiple h
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by cardiology-fat 5y ago
Just a note for American readers. In the US calling someone 'middle class' means that they are fairly ordinary salt-of the earth folks living a normal life, but who are not poor and not living paycheque to paycheque. This is not
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by cardiology-fat 5y ago
This is interesting, but it overlooks the way people often bullshit their way into a higher class. Boris Johnson is a common example of this: he's sort of an everyman's stereotype of what an upper-class person is like, and he pl
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by cardiology-fat 5y ago
Nah, Oxford.