Early Life
Tom Magliozzi was born in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he attended Gannett School, Wellington School, Rindge Tech, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, he participated in Air Force ROTC, and subsequently he spent six months in the Army Reserve. Ray Magliozzi was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and also graduated from MIT. In 1999, the brothers returned to MIT to jointly deliver the commencement speech to that year's graduates.
Tom earned a degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and subsequently worked for Sylvania's Semiconductor Division in Woburn, Massachusetts and then for the Foxboro Company, while earning his MBA from Northeastern University and teaching part-time at local universities. Eventually tiring of his commute and job, he quit, spending the next year doing odd jobs such as painting for other tenants in his apartment building.
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