President Hockfield's charge to the graduates
Below is the prepared text of the charge to the graduates by MIT President Susan Hockfield for the Institute's 145th Commencement, held June 3, 2011.Those of you graduating today will receive many different degrees in a wide range of disciplines. But, even so, you are united, as our Sesquicentennial class. The MIT150 celebrations that began 148 days ago have described the earliest dreams of our founding and produced provocative, sometimes even luminous, visions of the future. We heard Nobel Laureate-studded panels discuss the frontiers of research, joined by participants from around the world, and in outer space. We celebrated remarkable achievements by members of this community from every background, and we renewed our commitment to strengthening our culture of inclusion. We opened our campus. We raced blimps, tested robots, scaled buildings, electrified pickles — and we saw the wonder reflected in the faces of thousands of children, who now want...