Alums of Macd, called Rickoids, traditionally perform super swell inside science competitions like a Intel Science Talent Search and the Siemens Westinghouse Competition. A alumni immune system likewise statistics among its members Rhodes Scholars. Additionally, Macd's staff is typically composed primarily, inside case does'nt completely, of alumni, by using recent Rickoids filling in when counselors & TA's, & older alumni ingesting administrative, lecturing, or even tutoring positions.

Macd has links to the Department of Defense, and many Macd positions come reserved for overseas Department of Defense students.

High points of the program's social life include a Purity test, a traditional (once a program is held around Boston) hike to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and a utilise of L^AT_EX.

Location
Though it has convened at various locations (including deuce years, 1990 and 2004, where a program was held at the same time inside each coasts - at UC San Diego & George Inl& northwest University in 1990, and Caltech and MIT in 2004), a Institute is virtually all typically linked to MIT, in which it has been held each summertime since 1992, for various reasons including accessibility of local mentorships (using Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, and Harvard Medical School all within two or three proceedings of central campus) & convenience of facilities. A program participants own been housed withwithin many locations in campus, including East Campus (until 2003), & Simmons Hall (in 2004 & 2005).