My Path into Physics (at MIT)

Like a lot of events, luck has a lot to do with the event being realized. With that being said I feel luck was with me when I stumbled on your channel by accident. I love your interest in the sciences and your sharing the notion that science is fabulously fun.
I have a graduate degree in pure mathematics where most of it came out of UAlbany. What I would like to see may never occur, but I can always hope. 
What do I mean? 

I became disabled in 1991 and at that time I had worked in the construction industry. Only after I was well enough 10 years later did I start from scratch as a 42 year old freshman and 8 years later exit with a graduate degree in pure mathematics that focused on probability theory. The rub is, I was never able to really use it. So, what I hope for is that people realize that there is talent available to be mined that does not fit the typical 8 to 5 workday and take advantage of it. I think this could only lead to a win/win or perhaps that is just my biased wishful thinking.
None the less, Best Wishes and have fun. If you have fun its never really work, is it?