Date uploaded: 2018-10-30 19:52:13

When L. Dolio Durant ’99 enrolled at #MIT as a mechanical engineering student, the longtime musician planned to put his interest in music on pause to focus on his studies. That didn’t happen. He is now one of the singers in #Gangstagrass—a band that combines #rap and #bluegrass to create one-of-a-kind sounds. “It’s rap, its bluegrass, it’s both, and it’s neither,” Durant says. The band tours some 90 days each year, but that still leaves time for Durant’s other passion—helping new developers. As a lead technical instructor at Zip Code Wilmington, an intensive Java training program in Delaware, Durant tutors nontraditional students—many entering the program knowing nothing about #coding. Learn more: http://bit.ly/2EPONQn (link in bio) #MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology #MITalum #career