I want to take this time to say thank
you so much to MIT for everything
that you guys gave me here.
I thank MIT.
You've done an amazing job fostering
environment of just openness, and learning, and curiosity.
Everyone who was committed to our learning,
and to our progress, and our success.
At MIT, really learned to push our limits.
I've done things that I never thought were possible,
including not sleeping much, and still waking up
the next morning, and being super happy,
and going to my next like PSAT, or job, or interview.
MIT allows us to take classes in any department or school
regardless of what we're majoring in,
and I really enjoyed some of the classes
I've taken that were completely outside of my course
requirements.
So I just wanted to thank MIT for letting
us have that opportunity.
Coming in of as a freshmen, I didn't
realize how much opportunity that I would have here.
Opportunity both in MIT, as was globally to go abroad.
I realized MIT is really no joke, nothing
like I've ever done before.
And it was time for me to turn up the dial all the way out
and really, really dedicate myself to performing well here.
I was coaching crew at Riverside Boat Club
down the Charles River and I asked my boss why he hired me.
And he goes you're an MIT student.
And I was like, what does have to do with anything,
does that have to do with crew?
And he goes two reasons, One, I know
you've been through hell and back,
and so you can handle anything that I throw at you
and that you have to do as a coach.
And two, you can problem solve.
MIT is just nothing in comparison to any other work
I've ever done and probably will never do.
So I feel lucky to have been able to spend
four years of my life here.
I've now gained something I'm going
to have for the rest of my life, thank you.
One of my favorite memories is actually
from my archeology class freshman year
where we got to work in the metal
forge under the Material Science Department
to replicate a process that was done
thousands of years ago by metallurgists in the Inca
Empire.
I'm on the men's soccer team.
And he played soccer for four years,
and finally, earlier this year, the MIT men's soccer team
won their first ever NEWMAC soccer championship.
And it was a very MIT moment.
I realize going to away games, you know studying on the buss,
doing work, trying to get home early as early as
possible so we can study for tests and things
like that tomorrow, but to come together as a team
and win the first ever championship my senior year
after four years is really like an amazing experience
to share with the guys.
My favorite memory here at MIT was during my sophomore year
when we had the 150th celebration of MIT.
The greatest day was when we had the 150th open house,
and I think that's my favorite just
because it was a time where all of the MIT community
came together.
I remember specifically doing the flash mob,
when there's students, staff, alumni,
and even the president, Hatfield, at the time.
I remember going through the semester for a whole semester
with this team of people, all for one cause of building
this new product.
And at the end, the memory that sticks out to me
is when we presented our product and how
professional this whole presentation was, and how--
and what a big deal it was for the community and for us.
So in the future, I'm working for the Jameel Poverty Action
Lab from August to mid-November, and then I'm
actually doing a Fulbright Research Fellowship
in Botswana, where I'm going to be studying the interaction
between HIV and education.
And then I'm coming back to the Harvard Kennedy School
in Cambridge.
So I'm not leaving the MIT neighborhood too far.
But that's sort of my plan.
And I really learned at MIT that my biggest passion is actually
using math and economics to uncover
causal relationships in the real world, what causes what.
And so that's what I want to devote my life to,
in education, and health.
And so I'm really excited about it.
I'm excited about the next three years.
After graduation, I'll be starting a full time job down
in DC working in building technology.
And I hope to use my background in material science
to really make buildings better.
So after graduation, I love MIT so
much I'll be coming back for another year
to do a masters of science in nuclear engineering.
I'm also in the Navy.
So after that one year, I'll be on a nuclear submarine
for about four to five years.
And I hope one day to be able to take
all the MIT technical knowledge and apply it to nuclear policy
and energy policy.
Next year I'll be starting to work at Boeing.
At Boeing, I'll be an Integration Manager
at the satellite development factory.
And I'm really excited to be able to apply the work ethic
that I've acquired here, there, at this new place
and with this new challenge.
After my time here at MIT, I'm going
to be participating in a global public service program
through Duke University.
And so through this program, I'm going
to have the opportunity to go abroad to both Guatemala
and St. Vincent, and work in clinics while helping
a group of high school students develop their own global health
projects.
When I'm not abroad, I'll be researching at Duke
and applying to medical schools for fall 2014.
Wooh!, Did it, made it.
Thanks mom and dad.
Thanks Brian and [? Kala ?] for all the help over the years.
I want to thank my parents and my family
back home who have supported me through this entire journey.
And also all the friends that I've made while I've been here.
Yeah, I did it.
I'm so excited.
I made it out of MIT with flying colors, I hope.
Thank you [? Ima, ?] [? Ava, ?] that's my parents name
in Hebrew, my sister, [? Adi, ?] my grandparents, all my really,
really close friends at MIT, lifelong friends.
I'm so excited.
Mommy, Poppy, Alison, [INAUDIBLE],
[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] Thank you and we did it.
Wooh!
Thank you, mommy and daddy, Victor, Peace, Patience
and little Faith, for all encouraging me.