I somehow managed to become a software engineer with narry a high school diploma, how? I had the good forture to be born to two recent MIT graduates who, during my childhood worked on campus. I wouldn't be me, or know what I know, were it not for how open and inspiring an environment that MIT fostered.
I still haven't gotten around to going to college, don't think I ever will, unless I get bored and someone wants to take a PhD candidate with no formal education. Currently, I build websites and educational software for WGBH.
My parents, step-mom, and godparents (all MIT grads) have each held a number of eclectic jobs, from comptational biologist, to technical writer, to human/machine interface in college admission offices, to webmaster, to landscaper, to politician, to managing large philanthropic organizations.
What strikes me, is that in each of those jobs all of them have excelled, and MIT played no small part in the matter.
