<p>"MIT engineers go to work for Harvard graduates." <- still true?</p>
<p>My husband, who’s an MIT engineer, is working for a bunch of MIT graduates.</p>
<p>Well… If they go corporate, the guy who knows nothing about engineering but is getting paid double the MIT engineer he probably went to some business school. Whcih idk.</p>
<p>I’m an MIT scientist/engineer and I work for an MIT engineer (our CEO/company founder got the hat trick* from MIT in aero/astro).</p>
<p>*Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD</p>
<p>It’s more like Harvard grads work for companies started by MIT grads. </p>
<p>According to a recent study, “Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT,” which analyzes the economic effect of MIT alumni-founded companies and its entrepreneurial ecosystem, if the active companies founded by MIT graduates formed an independent nation, their revenues would make that nation at least the 17th-largest economy in the world. </p>
<p>[Kauffman</a> Foundation study finds MIT alumni companies generate billions for regional economies - MIT News Office](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/kauffman-study-0217.html]Kauffman”>Kauffman Foundation study finds MIT alumni companies generate billions for regional economies | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology)</p>
<p>Lots of MIT grads go on to get their MBA, go into consulting or Ibanking, and tell Harvard grads how to clean up the mess they caused.</p>
<p>Jessie, you just made me think: I’m an MIT scientist, but I’m going to get a graduate degree from Harvard, and I work for a scientist who got his undergrad degrees from MIT and his grad degrees jointly from MIT and Harvard. Am I an MIT alum working for a Harvard alum, or a Harvard alum-to-be working for an MIT alum?</p>
<p>^And when you graduate will your husband be an MIT grad working for (or at least at the behest of) a Harvard alum (you)?</p>
<p>This is a pickle. I don’t know what to make of it.</p>