MIT grads, 10 years later by Matt McGann '00

This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 — my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about what they’ve been up to after all this time.

One frequent question I get as an admissions officer is, what do MIT people do after graduating? It’s hard to give a comprehensive answer to that question, but perhaps this will be helpful.

In anticipation of our 10-year reunion, I emailed all the members of our class (about 1000 people) and asked for “10-year updates.” I got a variety of responses (representing about 5% of our class), which I compiled and sent out to the class. Realizing what a resource I had, though, I condensed the responses into a one-line summary of each responding classmate’s current job situation. I also listed graduate degrees if they were mentioned (many were not). I did not leave anyone out who responded; I have listed all responses below in the order that the emails show up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out…

 

• In law school
• Technical staff at Los Alamos (MIT PhD)
• Technical staff at Los Alamos (MIT PhD)
• Management consultant at McKinsey (MIT MEng)
• Cognitive Science Professor at UCSD (University College London PhD)
• Computer programmer
• Hosting the Discovery show ‘Time Warp;’ co-directed the upcoming OK Go music video
• Medical device company Business Development Manager (MIT MS)
• Real estate agent and mortgage officer
• Political Science professor at Pitt (Stanford PhD)
• Psychology post-doc (UT-Austin PhD)
• Administrator at Duke
• VP of technical services company (formerly in the Air Force)
• Medical doctor – surgeon
• Systems engineer at Linden Labs (Second Life)
• International development AAAS fellow at USAID (UMass-Amherst PhD)
• PhD student in chemistry (UFlorida)
• Lawyer – intellectual property
• Mathematician (Duke PhD)
• Medical doctor – glaucoma specialist (Harvard MD)
• Chemical engineer for ExxonMobil
• Computer engineer at Akamai
• Biotech industry (Stanford PhD)
• Professional skydiver (former consultant)
• Professional skydiver (former consultant)
• Biotech industry (“a company that runs oncology clinical trials”) – Director of Business Development (Columbia PhD)
• Economics professor at Cornell; former White House lead energy economist (Stanford PhD)
• Med school student (St George’s, University of London MBBS)
• Medical doctor – physical medicine and rehabilitation (UT-Southwestern MD)
• Computer science & physics teacher and Air Force reservist
• Medical doctor
• Technical lead at Twitter (MIT MEng)
• Google – YouTube and TV ads projects
• Medical doctor – anesthesiologist (Vanderbilt MD)
• Marketing manager – VMware
• Biology postdoc at Harvard (UCSF PhD)
• Artist, designer, educator, and glassblower (RISD MFA)
• Biotech industry – Medtronic
• Process engineer at Intel (UCLA PhD)
• Amazon.co.jp Senior Manager
• Lawyer – derivatives practice at JPMorgan (Columbia JD)
• Medical doctor – gastroenterology (UVA MD)
• US Environmental Protection Agency
• PhD student – materials science, Rice U (former NASA team lead)
• Lawyer; former staff to House of Representatives Committee on Science (Georgetown JD)
• “I work on quantitative stock trading out of my living room.”
• Graduate student in Australia (UHawaii MS)
• Veterinarian (Tufts DVM)
• “A start-up focused on mobile money lending in Africa”
• Cirque du Soleil – Artistic Director (will begin Wharton MBA)
• IT Director – gift & loyalty card industry
• Apple – Senior Manager (iPhone) (MIT MS)
• Linguistics Professor at Harvard (MIT PhD)
• Medical doctor – soft tissue pathology (Boston U MD/PhD)
• Admissions officer – MIT