MIT Commencement: Honoring the Class of 2023

MIT Weekly June 3, 2023 Greetings! Here’s a roundup of the latest from the MIT community.  Want a daily dose of MIT in your inbox? [Subscribe to the MIT Daily](. Commencement 2023 #[6 photos from MIT’s 2023 Commencement: MIT administrative leaders lead the procession past new graduates, all in academic regalia; 7 new grads linked arm in arm and waving in celebration; a new grad holds his hands up with his new diploma on stage; Mark Rober releases his grad cap into the air with the help of a drone; two new grads embrace among the sea of new graduates on Killian Court; 7 new grads wearing kente stoles linked arm in arm wave for the camera]( Congratulations, new MIT graduates! At Thursday’s OneMIT Commencement ceremony, engineer, inventor, and YouTuber Mark Rober urged the graduating class to cultivate a sense of optimism and collaboration. Yesterday, undergraduates received their diplomas in Killian Court, while graduates who earned advanced degrees celebrated throughout the week with individual ceremonies around campus. [Full story via MIT News →]( Top Headlines “No matter what, you showed up for one another here” At the 2023 Commencement undergraduate ceremony, new graduates celebrate, reflect on remarks from Chancellor Melissa Nobles, and receive long-awaited diplomas. [Full story via MIT News →]( [MIT Heat Island]( President Sally Kornbluth’s charge to the Class of 2023 “Curiosity is endlessly electrifying,” Kornbluth told graduates. [Full story via MIT News →]( [MIT Heat Island]( Boston Mayor Michelle Wu asks SA+P advanced degree recipients to be forces for good in Boston and beyond “We are proud to be doing this work, and we hope you will join us.” [Full story via MIT News →]( [MIT Heat Island]( Photos: 2023 engineering and computing advanced degree ceremony On May 31, graduates of master’s and doctoral programs in the MIT School of Engineering and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing were honored. Bose CEO Lila Snyder SM ’96, PhD ’98 gave the address. [Full story via MIT Engineering→]( [MIT Heat Island]( Photos: School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences advanced degree ceremony SHASS advanced degree recipients were honored June 1. Political scientist Meicen Sun PhD ’22 joined as speaker. [Full story via MIT SHASS→]( [MIT Heat Island]( “Commencement reminds me of what MIT’s all about” Each year, staff, faculty, and student volunteers help make the graduation celebration special for all guests, including the occasional duckling. [Full story via MIT News →]( [MIT Heat Island]( #MIT2023 #[Two by two collage of photos from MIT Commencement: A sea of new graduates standing together; Mark Rober with grad cap on, pointing to empty seats on Killian Court ahead of Commencement; a graduate holds her dog who wears a tiny grad cap; and Tim the Beaver in a cap and gown stands next to a big red "M" sculpture]( [Recap of Commencement on social media→]( In the Media “You totally got this,” YouTube star and former NASA engineer Mark Rober tells MIT graduates // The Boston Globe During his Commencement address at MIT, Mark Rober urged graduates to embrace their accomplishments and boldly face any challenges they encounter. Rober emphasized that “the degree you’re getting today means so much to you precisely because of all the struggle and setbacks that you’ve had to endure.” Elisa Becker-Foss, who graduated with a master’s in finance, noted that it was “very cool to be here, and after all the hard work to finally find one day to come together and celebrate.” [Full story via The Boston Globe →]( Here’s the life advice YouTuber Mark Rober gave to MIT’s 2023 graduates // Boston.com Mark Rober’s address to the MIT Class of 2023 featured “three bits of life advice in a humor-filled commencement speech.” Rober relayed to graduates that “if you want to cross the river of life, you’re gonna get wet. You’re gonna have to backtrack. And that’s not a bug, that’s a feature. Frame those failures and slips like a video game, and not only will you learn more and do it faster, but it will make all the successful jumps along the way that much sweeter.” [Full story via Boston.com→]( Look Back #[Black and white illustration showing the silhouette of a woman in a long dress and hair in a bun opening a door with her footsteps visible. Text reads “In Her Footsteps”]( [Ellen Swallow Richards]( became MIT’s first female graduate when she earned her BS in chemistry on May 31, 1873 — 150 years ago this week. She went on to build the foundations for sanitary chemistry, food science, family and consumer science, and ecology as an instructor at the Institute. To mark Richards’ graduation and legacy, the Association of MIT Alumnae ([AMITA]( has created a self-guided tour of locations in Boston where Richards studied and worked around MIT’s original campus. [View the tour→]( Did You Know? #[Sally Kornbluth walks next to Diane Greene and in front of Cindy Barnhart and other MIT faculty along Memorial Drive, all wearing academic regalia. Kornbluth, Greene, and Barnhart all wear cardinal-and-silver MIT robes.]( With every new MIT president comes new presidential regalia. Overseeing her first MIT Commencement this week, President Sally Kornbluth wears a silver-gray academic robe whose open sleeves, lined with red satin, have four cardinal red bars outlined in silver-gray piping. Two cardinal red stoles bordered by silver-gray piping display 18 infinity symbols, as President Kornbluth is the 18th president of MIT. [Learn more via MIT Commencement→]( This edition of the MIT Weekly was brought to you by [two MIT degrees, plus a degree in Oreology](. 🥛 Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. 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