MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Syrian Refugees to Tout Food Computers That Didn’t Work.

These are our “best and brightest.” People think I have a case of sour grapes when I mention that Ivy Leaguers (MIT is not Ivy League, but you know what I mean) don’t impress me, after having met more than a few.

They are, mostly, people who got lucky (i.e., had the right parents) and are good at parroting answers their teachers want to hear. It doesn’t take much to be smarter than the lot of them, and if I had been or were offered full-ride admission to MIT, Harvard, etc., I would turn it down without a second thought. I have better things to do with my time and that degree is meaningless to me.

Not sour grapes; proper time management skills.