Can someone explain to me why every little news tidbit relating to MIT has to be on the HN front page 24/7? My goodness, it's like this is the MIT fan club.

Why is this being posted here? It's a notice from MIT to the MIT community about network problems they have been having. I attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, should I post every little announcement from their news feed on HN? I'm so sick of this mindless worshiping of a school just because it is a great university.

There are plenty of other higher-education institutions that offer excellent programs. Yet somehow "MIT", "Stanford", "Carnegie Mellon", etc are the only names people want to hear of engineering universities, all other institutions are just "schools".