Smart - smarter - smartest
It is smart to create a working subway electronics. It is smarter to find a way around it. Now, the big question, what is smartest? Smartest would be to find a way around it and then use that information to get a nice, creative job, a job that you liked. For an MIT student, you might get in contact with the people you outsmarted. Instead of garnering national attention, instead of a splash in the news, you might play your cards closer to your chest.