I first thought about mentioning my peripheral connections to MIT after reading this item in Technology Review at the end of June.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/29/1053303/how-mit-ended-up-on-memorial-drive/
My conversation this week with an MIT astrophysicist has nudged me into action. Did we discuss cosmic rays? Black holes at the center of galaxies? Or was the topic her particular area of expertise, the search for dark matter?
No, it was something quite Earthbound and mundane. A contractor had sent her to me for a reference.
Unknown to me for many years, when my family moved to Massachusetts, my father’s cousin Jane was at MIT, getting her PhD in Political Science.
In the 70’s my father worked at the MIT Sloan School of Management for a few years. In the 80’s my twinster Jean worked at MIT while I was working at a nearby company named after MIT, founded by a couple of its grads. A friend who’s reading this is an MIT grad.