Matt Damon is both serious and funny at MIT commencement speech
- 8 years ago
The list of past commencement speakers at the MIT is suitably impressive — Nobel Prize winners and past presidents, governors and senators among them.
“And who did you get?”
Matt Damon joked Friday morning during his address to the class of 2016.
“A guy who did the voice for a cartoon horse.”
Damon’s presence at MIT’s commencement was due in large part to his philanthropic commitment to providing clean water for disadvantaged populations around the world.
Building on that experience, he spoke with emotion about the global problems this year’s graduates might attack, including poverty, pandemic, climate change, and “fear-driven brains working overtime.”
Damon also took the opportunity to score a few political points.
Noting his current fascination with simulation theory, which hypothesizes multiple realities, he asked, “How come we have to be in the one where Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee?”
“And who did you get?”
Matt Damon joked Friday morning during his address to the class of 2016.
“A guy who did the voice for a cartoon horse.”
Damon’s presence at MIT’s commencement was due in large part to his philanthropic commitment to providing clean water for disadvantaged populations around the world.
Building on that experience, he spoke with emotion about the global problems this year’s graduates might attack, including poverty, pandemic, climate change, and “fear-driven brains working overtime.”
Damon also took the opportunity to score a few political points.
Noting his current fascination with simulation theory, which hypothesizes multiple realities, he asked, “How come we have to be in the one where Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee?”