As I just read in the online edition of The Guardian, two universities I attended in the States rank topmost in the world. And the ranking is pretty serious. Close to eighteen-thousand leading academics from nearly one-hundred and fifty countries have ranked all universities on the planet to come up with the best one-hundred. Harvard comes on top. MIT takes the second place. The ranking was conducted by The Times in London. Unexpectedly, I felt a surge of pride in my own achievement. I got a master’s from Harvard and a doctorate from MIT. I taught at MIT for many years, as well. On top of everything, the ranking of the two universities would have been the same while I was there. Hey! But I checked my pride at once. The main point in the article is that Asian universities are coming up in the rankings while American and European ones are slipping behind. Assuming that this trend will continue, even the likes of Harvard and MIT will be threatened in a couple of decades. By and by, I will be reduced to sticking to the historical record. A lousy consolation, this.