Ha, I haven’t seen this gem. But MIT did respond on the web, in a bit whiny way to say the student didn’t recognize that the MIT letter itself was a parody, you can tell they were a little butthurt over it though.
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~john/resp.html
The ‘student’ has this bio on a book on tech interviewing that he published.
John Mongan is a self-taught programmer with professional experience as a consultant for software and pharmaceutical companies. He has three patents on software testing technologies. He holds a BS in chemistry from Stanford and a PhD in Bioinformatics from UC San Diego, with thesis work in supercomputer simulations of protein dynamics.
And further it looks like he has a MD/PhD and is an Asst Prof at UCSF Radiology. Not bad for a smartass.