Will Bland, a graduate of Virginia Beach, Virginia’s International Baccalaureate program, and is in his sophomore year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT, he will major in Finance or Business Analytics and plans to pursue a joint JD/MBA degree. Bland is a point guard for the Men’s Varsity Basketball team and is involved in the Black Student Union and National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). Furthermore, he is a member of the Office of Minority Education’s The Standard (a pre-professional community for minority-identifying men) and resides at Chocolate City.