Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “MIT Chancellor Melissa Nobles to the Class of 2024”.
Okay, everyone, it’s happening it’s graduation day, congratulations to you you’re soon to be graduates and congratulations to your loved ones. What a day to the class of n of 2024 you’re here today graduating from MIT on beautiful Killian Court, thanks in part to the many people who believed in you who Champions you who boosted you when you needed it? Many of your loved ones are here today, and others are around. The globe are beaming with happiness as they watch this ceremony online. So soak up all of the love and pride of your families and friends and champions here and afar is a very special day for them too.
Thank you, parents. Thank you. Families! Thank you, friends, thank you to the professors and staff here at MIT and thank you to everyone who has helped shape our graduates journey to this day and now, let’s talk about you, the graduates of 2024. Yes, you started at MIT. You started at MIT during Co, but don’t worry we won’t dwell on that, but what I do want to highlight is because the world turned upside down because you didn’t know the typical rhythms of MIT and the upper classes.
Couldn’T show you all of the ropes. You did what MIT students do best you made stuff up. You figured things out, you experimented you iterated, you engineered, you stretched. You created New Traditions, you bonded, you used your heart and you built your communities first online and then on campus, Because connections to people never felt more important and I’m not trying to glamorize this.
Surely starting from scratch can be daunting. Rocky inefficient, exhausting and filled with dead ends, but it also creates possibility, which you filled with creativity, strength, persistence and resilience and, as a consequence, you built a complete and fulfilling college experience. So, as you wrap things up, take a moment to pause and to be present, look around at your classmates strangers, who you met on zoom and became tight friends under tough circumstances. Think back to the fall to the fall of your sophomore year when things literally opened up on campus and you to open yourselves up wholeheartedly to your fellow students, what Wild Adventures you had as sophomores getting to know each other and drinking from mit’s famed fire holes Together, IRL and you feel and feel the pride the pride of your care that you’ve shown to classes who will following your footsteps, by passing along the institutional knowledge that you painstakingly unearth that you created and refined so that future students don’t need to start from scratch. As you did think about your houses, your clubs, your mentors inside and outside of the classroom, your teams, your performances, your research, your coursework and your Creations, think about the intellectual curiosity that you arve with Plus all that you’ve learned since and how your passions and Ambitions Led you to even more complex discoveries and remember all of the pie sets that you completed. It will never need to do again, while you’ll soon leave behind your beloved maker spaces and F and favorite hangout spots in the practice fields.
Where you gave things your all. You’Ll bring your problem sound in skills, your Ingenuity, your passions and drive to New spaces, new spots and new Fields, you’ll Forge new friendships, while staying in touch with your MIT besties you’ll buy bananas at the at the grocery store and reminisce when you get them 24/7. At the banana Lounge back in the day, you’ll Trek through the unknown, with an adventurous and generous Spirit, you’ll ask for help when you need it and you’ll continue to inspire inspire others and give to others that follow above all, you’ll be confident about what’s possible what You can achieve how you you can apply your talents and skills in this complex world because you have a hard earned MIT degree. Your degree is an extra special accomplishment because you faced so many adversities along the way individually and together as a class.
But you did it and you all here to today and we’re celebrating with you here and around the globe, and we are all so very proud of you. So now, let’s take time to listen to some soul from music and then get to those diplomas to you and then we’re going to make things official! Congratulations! Mit class of 2024 [ Applause, ] .