<p>I know it is just a movie
Fine Still, it is frightening.
Is it typical for an MIT grad, nuclear engineering major and such, to work for those secret agencies and get killed anonymously at a young age??!
I know it sounds really stupid;
if only you have seen the movie you will know what I mean</p>
<p>(im not paid to do this promotion, btw.. just some personal thoughts and concerns i feel like sharing)
i know lots of movies use mit grads to help set the plot; yet this time im affected because it is a girl whose major was probably what i intend to major in... i mean it is totally unerstandable for a grad to work on research for private firms and under her situation i feel i would do the same thing, which in the movie inevitably costs the lives of hers, her boyfriend's, friend's, and almost her father's. yes i see myself in it and get sad.</p>
<p>not like i can get in anyways...but isnt this scary??</p>
<p>Haha if it were typical, the population of the world would go down dramatically
But if you intend to work with the X-files, then that’s the fact you cannot hide from :D</p>
<p>A lot of MIT grads, regardless of major, end up working on classified stuff, or in facilities that do classified stuff. I don’t have a clearance, but I work at a company where many people do, in a facility that can handle material up to Top Secret clearance level. I promise you, it is NOT THAT EXCITING. I mean, not that my job is boring, but it is not a life of intrigue and danger. It’s just an office job. There are tons of defense contractors and government agencies out there, and a zillion people working for them, and I’ve never heard of anyone being gunned down over it.</p>
<p>Also, I know a lot of young MIT alums, including nuclear engineering alums, and several current nuclear engineering students, and none of them have been murdered, for any reason. There’s no need to be freaked out by this, really. :)</p>
<p>There are plenty of high schoolers that have classified projects under their belt and are applying to MIT as undergrads. If that doesn’t tell you how unexciting and not dangerous it is, I don’t know what more I can say to really emphasize that movies are movies.</p>
<p>I have done, and am, doing classified and restricted work. Not top secret though. And yes, it is relatively boring. No Feynman moments of cracking safes; and I am sick of filling in tonnes of paperwork just to draw a bunch of keys which lock a single cabinet. (I asked my superior what’s the point of having so many locks for a single cabinet if its keys are bunched together). Sometimes I need to draw keys, to draw a key, to draw a few keys, to draw my access card, to log in a computer with a PIN. And I need to fill paperwork before each step in the sequence (excepting logging in). I don’t know why anyone would gun me down, except to ease my boredom? The only fun part of it is using the paper shredder.</p>
