Sheldon states he hates M.I.T. It is stated many times in The Big Bang Theory (2007) that his friend Howard Wolowitz went there to get his Masters Degree.
When Sheldon enters the school's newspaper office there is an Apple Lisa in the foreground. This computer, the forerunner of the Apple Macintosh/iMac, was the first mass market computer with the now familiar mouse and icon screen. It was never a success, mainly due to its high price ($9,995) and the subsequent arrival of the Macintosh a year later.