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This is an interesting question. I'm a CMU CS alumnus (undergrad), and attended Stanford for an MS in Computer Science, and for what it's worth, Harvard for an MBA. Of the three schools, I've never worked harder than I did at CMU, and I learned a ton in the CS program. (CMU's CS program was technically called "Applied Math: Computer Science" when I was there; I double-majored in Applied Math:CS and Industrial Management.)While each person's experience is subjective by definition, I tend to agree that in general, CMU grads seem to have an inferiority complex. Like the Avis saying, if you're #2 (or in this case #4 or #5?), you try harder. From the outside, CMU doesn't seem to carry quite the same immediate cachet as, say, Harvard or Stanford, but it should.CMU excels, like a focused laser beam, at CS, EE, Robotics, Drama, Materials Science, Architecture and Art/Design programs. Its excellence is certainly present and powerful, but it's spotty. On campus, there is a general perception that other departments, particularly in traditional liberal arts, don't quite pull their weight.Stanford, on the other hand, excels at virtually every field it touches, including Computer Science. It feels like a much more well-rounded school. Its assets are tremendous. Its locale and sports teams add a balance to life that Pittsburgh and Division 3 sports just can't match. This manifests itself fairly quickly -- for instance, Pittsburgh and Pittsburghers invest a huge amount of time telling you why it's a great place to live. Palo Alto and Bay Area residents don't need to.An underlying inferiority complex is reinforced by geography, sports teams, national renown, surroundings... even weather. As you trapse through the winter slush in Pittsburgh, off to Wean Hall or the CS labs, breathing the sulfur-heavy air wafting from steel mills shut down long-ago, you're dead-certain that your counterparts at Stanford are probably cycling the sunny hills of Woodside or Palo Alto past the hallowed grounds of Xerox PARC or SLAC, or meeting at The Creamery or Bucks Diner to pitch their startup idea with local VC's. I'm here to tell you -- they probably are. And it stings.Stanford of course benefits from prime location, great weather, access to legendary entrepreneurs and tech companies, ready venture-funding near by, and an incredibly vibrant tech scene. It's a superb, innovative, excellent school. But, very much unlike CMU, it was my constant observation that students at Stanford definitely don't have to work very hard if they don't want to, and very often, they don't. There's a lot more frisbee throwing, pub-crawling and general goofing off at Stanford, and a lot more buckling down and studying at CMU. Stanford is a very individually-driven school -- you can audit courses, drop out and not have it hurt your grades, sit anonymously in the back of lectures -- etc. Dare I say it -- it's just plain easier. CMU, for lack of a better term, is more "hard ass" and demanding, where the professors and RA's very much know each student, with a very high bar, all of which causes students to burn the midnight oil, and sweat every challenging exam.CMU, being of smaller size and more variation in worldwide renown from department-to-department, felt far more competitive, intimate and driven. Stanford, as phenomenal as it is (I loved my time there), often felt much more like a beautiful, dreamy, exclusive and amazing country club, with an outstanding educational facility on the side. It is certainly the case that some of it is due to grad school vs. undergrad, but I got pretty good exposure to each at both schools. Some of this is due to the balmy weather, some of it due to the wealthy student-base (the year I was there it almost seemed as though incoming freshmen were issued BMW convertible 320i's, they were so abundant). And some of it is the general unstated impression that with Stanford already on your diploma, you're somewhat set, whereas CMU students' matriculation into six-figure salaries was far less assured.Bottom line -- the quality of education at both schools is pretty comparable (in CS and math, at least); CMU deserves every bit the reputation as Stanford or Harvard in selected departments, probably even more-so. However, the quality of life is most definitely not comparable; it's my view that CMU is a far harder and more demanding school in selected departments, and Stanford has a far-better balance of student work and life.Returning to the question at hand, given the above, I'd encourage CMU CS grads to put a check on that inferiority complex -- it's my view that they might just have accomplished significantly more, at least academically, in those four years than students at even higher-prestige schools. But perhaps these academic accomplishments were at the expense of a more rich social life that would help soften negative personality traits... like inferiority complexes.

Want my perspective? I’m white British and if I could get OCI (Overseas Citizen of India) I would. I’d be back out there in a heartbeat.I lived in India for three years and visited many times. I speak Hindi relatively well and have a working knowledge of Tamil.Why do I want to live in India?I lived in a little town called Ooty up in the Nilgiris Hills of Tamil Nadu. It’s a rather beautiful place surrounded by rainforest. The town is served by a railway, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Mountain Railways of India, that snakes its way up the hills providing views like you wouldn’t believe.Ooty is pretty clean - cleaner than London at least. (For the record, I don’t particularly enjoy living in cities anywhere - Mumbai is great for a visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there!) Most single-use plastics are banned there, and they’re getting stricter every year. For someone who loves the natural world, Ooty is spectacular. At the weekends I would just hop on my motorbike and ride around the mountains through the tea and eucalyptus plantations. If I fancied it, I could ride down the mountain through all the hairpin bends (great fun!) and head into the national parks and see elephants, bears, peacocks, monkeys and, if I was lucky, the big cats.If I fancied going even further I could quite easily pop into Kerala and go to one of the beach resorts. I could go from the cool drizzly Nilgiris Hills and be on a warm tropical beach in a few hours. Not many places you can do that!This is a photo of me (I’ve got the green rucksack) and some visitors doing a trek in the mountains around Ooty. We’re right at the edge of them - just behind us are the Mysore Plains and it’s pretty much a straight 1000m drop from here to there!The variety of natural landscapes is a big attraction for me - you don’t get that in Britain. I could even get to the Himalaya quickly and easily through a cheap domestic flight or an even cheaper (and fun) train journey! If I fancied going scuba diving one holiday I could go to Goa or the Andaman Islands.I’m also fortunate in the sense that I earn a reasonably decent salary. By UK standards I don’t, but by Indian standards I’m rather wealthy. It meant that when I lived out there I could afford to have a maid - this is impossible for most British families, even relatively affluent ones. I had a nice house out there - comfortable and I never really had to worry about money. I basically did what I liked, ate out regularly (masala dosa for about Rs 50? Fantastic, and that was the inflated price I paid for being white!), went on holiday to exotic locations and had a nice motorbike. I worry about money constantly in the UK. The cost of education is frightening (gotta love all that student debt), my rent (small flat) is ridiculous, my bills go up every year (my salary doesn’t), etc. etc. I haven’t taken a proper holiday in YEARS.I made it to the top of Thorung La in Nepal on a trekking holiday doing the Annapurna Circuit - one of the best experiences of my life. Getting to Nepal is dead easy from India.The standard of living in India is higher - much higher - for middle-class families than in the UK, and that’s nothing something you’d necessarily realise unless you’ve experienced both. I could do half as much work as I do now and still have more disposable income in India than I have in the UK. Contrary to popular belief, you can still get hold of just about everything you can get hold of in the West - even Marmite. I appreciate this is because there’s a large portion of the country that doesn’t have a lot of money.I love the people. India has just over a billion of them and they speak dozens of languages and practice several major religions (and many more minor ones). It is genuinely incredible that, for the most part, the country functions pretty well. My first few hours in India took me from Bangalore Airport to Ooty. On that journey I went through three states speaking three different languages with three different writing scripts (Karnataka, Kannada; Kerala, Malayalam; and Tamil Nadu, Tamil). I love that linguistic diversity. On the street I lived on were Christian families, Muslim families, Buddhist families (Tibetan refugees), Jains and Parsis. It is very rare even in the more cosmopolitan parts of the world to have that. While tensions do flare up from time to time, they are unusual.I once took my motorbike on an epic trip from Ooty to Goa and ended up breaking down just outside Mysore. I ended up pushing it to a mechanics (you can get anything fixed in India - no need to chuck stuff away) and we managed to have a conversation despite me not speaking a word of Kannada. The mechanic spoke a smattering of English, Tamil and Hindi, and so did I. We just switched between the three![Photo deleted because someone reported this answer for being ‘inappropriate’, citing this photo. Not sure what was so inappropriate about it, but thank you anonymous internet police for making me a better person.]I was a geography teacher and here with one of my classes. There are six languages represented in this photo.I met some unpleasant people too, including some people who mugged me in New Delhi, but that’s no different to anywhere else in the world. For the most part, Indians across the country are helpful, polite people.The food is incredible (and if you don’t like Indian food you can have Chinese, pizza, fried chicken, whatever - it’s all there), there are amazing landmarks (the Taj Mahal really is worth seeing) and it’s an extraordinarily exciting place with a lot going on and rapidly evolving.I could go on and on. India is my second home and I’d very much like to go back!Samuel LickissWriter and broadcasterwww.samuellickiss.comEdit:This answer has, extremely quickly, become my most upvoted and commented-on answer on Quora…by a very long way, as shown by my 30-day stats:So, wow, and thanks! I normally hang around in the science/linguistics/geography section of Quora and get a few dozen upvotes for answers I spend several hours researching and writing. This answer took me a little bit of my lunch break and required no research at all beyond a quick scroll through Facebook to find some photos. Quora’s funny like that.I have responded properly to most comments individually and in detail so far, but quite a lot are getting added every day and I have a feeling I’m going to find it prohibitively time consuming to do so. I’ll respond to common points here.Most comments are positive, which is great because this answer was supposed to be positive.Some are more critical, and that’s great too because I like being kept on my toes and it gives me a chance to clarify a few things.Something I do understand is that India is highly divided country with a lot of poverty, particularly rural poverty. There’s no sense in denying that. I’ve travelled widely in the country, including to adivasi villages, a prolonged stay in Dharavi, Mumbai (which locals don’t seem to visit themselves), and a long summer in suburban Varanasi teaching English and geography at a summer school for children from poor backgrounds (while studying Hindi myself).The question, however, was about some people, and I’m a person and I can only speak from my own perspective. I am fortunate to have been born into a middle-class family and had a stable upbringing. I’ve also had a good education and I’m well-qualified. I had a particular desire to go to India because my godfather was born in Chennai back in the late 1940s (actually the year of independence) and he actually attended the same school I went to teach at with his brother. Growing up, a close family friend of ours also attended the same school. For me, it’s a country I’ve long been interested in and had a connection with.When an opportunity to teach there came up, I took it. I’d never been to India and never left Europe before. I’d never lived more than two hours away from the town I was born in, so it was a significant change for me! I went out there for one year and stayed for three, and I’ve been back on holiday several times since.I mentioned finances. Money has never motivated me really, though I do enjoy some expensive hobbies like scuba diving! I worked in India on a local salary (and you can earn quite a bit more teaching than I did at some of the more famous/wealthier international schools) and I made very little effort to save money. I had fairly long school holidays and I took full advantage of them. That included trekking in Nepal, scuba diving in the Andaman Islands, and travelling by train and motorbike all over the place. I even had a maid (never had a maid before or since!). Among middle-class Indians, a maid is pretty normal. It’s very abnormal in Britain.I still ended up saving money - I still have savings there in a bank account collecting a nice amount of interest (much more than in Britain).From my perspective, I had much more disposable income in India than in Britain. I had a nicer house there too, a maid, could eat out whenever I liked, etc. In Britain, I earn pretty much average. That money does not get you very far. I’m not poor or anything like that, but I can forget about going on scuba diving holidays. Saving is challenging, and I’m actually trying to now because I would like to buy my own home! Housing costs in the UK are genuinely ridiculous. Slums don’t exist here, at least not ones like Dharavi, but slum-like conditions are emerging in parts of London and other parts of the country (The families living in modern day slums). It’s getting worse.Proportionally, the salary I could command in India is miles above what I can command in the UK, with a corresponding difference in quality of life. The key word here is ‘proportionally’. Forget about absolute numbers.I both appreciate and understand that this difference is because there are a large number of people in India who have nothing because there is so much wealth division. In geography we talk about the Gini coefficient as a measure of wealth disparity. You can look up some stats here (Human Development Reports). It’s worth pointing out that India is gradually becoming more equal, which is a good thing, while the UK (and especially the USA) are becoming less equal (bad). All that said, from my perspective, and mine alone, the quality of life is higher.Some people have also mentioned the wisdom of having immigration from the west to India. Why does a school need me when there are plenty of perfectly well-qualified teachers in India? Good question.Something I quickly learnt in India was that the term ‘international’ is basically meaningless when discussing education. Check out this answer: Which are the top 10 international schools in India?The school I worked at is mentioned in a few of these answers, and actually is an international school. It followed the British exam system and had roughly 50% of its students and staff come from India. The other 50% came from all over the place: South Korea, USA, UK, parts of Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Nepal, Thailand, etc. I.e. it’s actually international.Most international schools in India are not like this: their students and staff come almost entirely from India.Teaching British exams requires knowledge of the British syllabus and western teaching methods. This is very, very different to ICSE/Indian teaching methods. I worked with Indian teachers who were exceptionally competent, highly talented people, but adapting to a different style of teaching and syllabus is challenging and having such a diverse school does require diverse teaching staff to reflect that.International schools exist in Britain too. They exist all over the place. I grew up next door to a Japanese school where, naturally, most of the teaching staff were Japanese.Today’s economy is global and India is a major part of it. Whether globalisation is a good or bad thing is a whole other discussion, but it’s here to stay whether Trump, Modi and British Brexiteers like it or not. India’s economy benefits directly from it - major Indian firms operate overseas (e.g. Tata Steel and Cobra Beer in the UK) and the same is true in reverse. For that to work, cultural exchange is necessary.I have a profound respect for India and its people, a genuine one, not because of yoga and ashrams and that pseudo-spirituality that many westerners seem to like. I don’t pretend to understand everything about the country - it’s a complex and diverse place, and I find that fascinating, and that’s why I continue to learn.I also acknowledge that it’s not perfect. I experienced first-hand the corruption and violence that exists there. I also had an unpleasant experience getting mugged in New Delhi once and went to the police, who were downright useless. They kept trying to get me to change my statement from, ‘my wallet was stolen’ to ‘my wallet was lost’ and said it meant the same thing, which it really isn’t.Britain is a great place too, and I especially think the British police are fantastic! I love my country (in a non-weirdly nationalist way), its culture and people. I have a good life here. However, I’m not blind to its own flaws and will happily point them out. I’d quite like to combine the both of European and Indian living - that’d be perfect!