Actor Matt Damon offers the 2016 MIT Commencement Address 

from janitor to commencement speaker

my stepdad produced this video he founded and ran MIT's video production department until he retired this year no bs

That was an impactful speech. Matt Damon seemed really nervous, but he did a fine job.

I thought that was pretty damn good and such an enlightening speech yet filled with quality content and the right humor.

Wow! Salute to your honesty, courage, and wiseness! It's my honor to share the same sky with you!

I simply love this man. Just a good person.

The most humble, talented and beautiful-on-the-inside film star ever. Period.

Great Actor, Love listening to Matt Talk. Good Will Hunting continues to entertain and motivate me.

Man, what a great speech. Kudos!

This proves he wrote most of Good Will Hunting

Matt........Bless you...

Congratulations 👏🏼🙏🏼.

Well worth the watch. Congratulations Matt. Give this man a degree!

'Ready player one'

I like Matt. He's a good decent person.

I'm just hoping the first guy Elon Musk sends to Mars is Matt. He did pretty good in that Martian movie.

His words “You have the money, but, you don’t have the respect” touch me.

I love that Damon's humor is too clever for MIT folks. That joke about sanitation not being sexy until you get into the shit business? That's hilarious and I don't care if they are too proper to be thrown off by a cuss word, I really felt they did not appreciate that joke!

Difficult but well developed and well delivered gift to the students. Not everything was popular but there’s a difference in class and unfortunately I personally believe that many of those students believe that they didn’t need to listen because they felt that they knew so much more. Just wait until they get into their 30s or 40s or 50s or 60s and realize that what he said was reality, you didn’t have to be full of humor or dropping big names it was reality. God bless all of you thanks Matt. You have not only inspired my three children but myself once again to re-create myself and run into the fire without self pity or expectations. It’s to serve. God bless your family and stay safe and healthy. Thanks for your entertainment. That’s it.

SIMPLY BRILLIANT!!!

I am growing to love Matt Damon as a public speaker WE ARE THE CHANGE WE ARE THE FUTURE WE ARE THE HOPE WE ARE ANONYMOUS

Still relevant and inspiring in 2023.

Very inspiring and compelling speech. Well done.

Beatiful Matt Damon.😍😍😍

My boy’s wicked smaht

This guy is pretty awesome!

I am starting up Two Guys again. My family has not a clue I knew this.

Absolutely brilliant congratulations

CONGRATULATIONS!!! 2017

Matt didn't get the joke the audience was making when he said the president turned toward him after saying "turn toward the problem". Also, he basically said cherry pick my good suggestions, ignore my bad ones. Then judge me on the results. It would be nice if we all that that benefit. You can tell Matt never really had a job. Make a poor suggestion enough times in a boardroom and see how well it goes.

congratulations Ben !

Why was Jason Bourne holding an MIT speech?

Choose your problem. Engage.

Wow..great channel...Greetings from Chirantha..Sri lanka.....

I wanna come to this university, but i cant.. May be one day my child or my generations can come to this university, hope so.. MIT can dream and one of lucky person that may be one day could come on its and dreaming people around the world

Though he may not be running for office, he seems to be deeply involved in political movements. Yes, as a liberal actor he may lean left, but voicing against right, especially if all facts are not presented, and speaking to these young minds at MIT on graduation, his speech, while wonderful when engaging in his own craft of acting, is peppered with bits of ignorance when speaking with politically weighed subjects.

Javé created and runs this universe. Matt is right.

2:38 Matt admits who is the best university in Cambridge?

That was a nice speech.

This nation has too many problems to fix; however, each and every action makes a difference... Turn toward the problem of your choices and make a difference... no matter how small it may be. It's the ripple effect!

Bono spoke at Wheaton College before he spoke in Csmbrodge or Boston, Massachusetts.

Does anyone else see Plir also in the way the font is designed for the MiT letters?

Inspirational

"You won't believe it guys, I was a janitor here once."

Matt Damon Actor/Waiter giving a speech at MIT. Matt after you are finished, could you get me a drink and fries with my burger?

I'm not even intellectually worthy of putting my 2bits here considering the cerebral banks associated with this school and perhaps this forum/video; but my musical arrogance has me doing so regardless. Mr. Damon's philosophical approach or candor on many issues, economically, politically, and perhaps mostly existentially, are fantastic. I can only assume the traditional MIT students are steep in understanding scientific and logical paradigms current in our social system. But I think what Matt Damon infused here was a bit of the Right Hemisphere projection that our world could definitely use now. Curious to know how the MIT students received Matt's speech, given many of his pointed, but definitely needed views.

yess Matt, I grew up watching "Spirit"...hehehe...

His voice.! 👌

Matt Damons Kamala Moment right at the end.

So many graduates every year. But you still get a "wow, really?", from everyone when you say it.

turn toward the problems, Bill turned toward Matt...

09:59 message

Well done such a clear and honest speech. At the end of his speech he was like thank you thank you shakes hands and when hes about to sit while thinking to himself "shitt that speech took a while pheww im tired gona finally sit" but then as hes seated relaxed and shit the crowed is still clapping hes probably in his head like "shit they still clapping" 23:32. that awkward moment lol. (if you ended up reading this your're thinking to your self this.... wait a minute how would i know. lol sorry for waisting your time 😄

wow, just wow!

this is such a high speech. it's as if matt damon smoked a blunt before making this lmao

Good speech. But I wonder how much these graduates remember what is said 5 years down the line?!?

8:50 boom goosebumps

Matt Damon talks about living in the Matrix 👀

anyone find the Wall Street plug a bit cantankerous & imprudent juxtaposed quoting Clinton? All the previous stuff he said was on point, but it just seemed odd.

Why is it that he still looks like he's in midst 30?

はたして　この時　トランプ氏の大逆転勝利を予想出来たものはいたのだろうか？　やはり　ドナルドって名は凄いのか！?しかし　お孫さんのピコ太郎パフォーマンスは　純粋に可愛い～～～

Proves that Lesley College professors can get their kids into Harvard.

Not sure the majority of the audience is in line with some of the things Matt was saying...

Best f'n commencement speech I've ever heard, on all of youtube - better than Obama's... thank you Matt - Matt Damon for President...(20??) ?

Does anybody write the websites that he talked about, I repeted it 100 times and did not get the website before ted.com 😀

Ah yes, if being successful "artist" celebrity, actor wasn't enough one must rub shoulders with the echelons of the educational system as if it is the paragon of all the is true and right in the world. Only them, only them and many like them can understand!

Is the graduation hat the one he was referring to when he said he would eat HIS hat if any of the Bush children went to pubic schools??? He LIED!! The hat is still visible!

Trump clicked dislike..

For criticizing bankers, he narrated the inside job after all

Matt Has more authority to speak on politics than the 🍊 man.

there is only one solution, the one who laid down his life for all the world.

Why everybody from Elon Musk to Matt Damon talking about simulation? "suddenly" all of a sudden.

What is his concern about Austria ? Maybe they are tired of The UN Refugee Invasions

13th floor. He is talking about 13th floor.

Hmmm water.org has spent almost as much on lobbying, administrative costs and travel as they have helping those poor people that he talks so much about. How about an MIT MBA to help cut waste and provide more services and money to those poor people? Interesting that the CEO is pulling down $270K for 20 hours per week of work.

👏👏🥰🥰Xx

At the end he should have said "I don't know about you all, but I got to go see about a girl"

ลูกใครน้อพ่อแม่จะเอาหน้าไว้ไหย

Did Britney Murphy give Jonathan Williams Bloodz a mansion in the Sour Land Mountains? This was next to Charles Lindbergh house. Behind Carrier Foundation. It is in Flemington, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. I need my house. GIVE it back Montgomery Highschool, Skillman, New Jersey. That was my money. You took my intelligence to a far level. I NEED for all of you STOP bulling me. I am so far fed up with Carl Bruelstel for hoping to control everything that my family put together. I found out how you and all of those who started 9-1-1 India A Body.

We need more good willing folks like this man hunting for ways to solve our world problems 😉

ha ha na Matt you can't your in the right one.

Well....I don't know....Hmm....

Sad that he babbles nonsense about Austria.

9:33 Fauxcahontas=justice? Could someone explain that one to me please?

Surprised he didn't reference The 13th floor. Decent movie about simulation.

🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥🔥

Yale is a safety school? Lmao😂

All problems are solvable.

September 11,2001. Dove Dove 🕊️🕊️. Peace. 4 9 13 4 April 13 M Echo Echo Echo. Tango Bravo Romeo Sierra. Sierra equals morning. 8:00a.m. Remove, Building Two.

princeton, ntu, uh, harvard...etc.

Spoke like a true rich elitist liberal

Amen . To he'll with the banisters. But Hod will avenge not Elizabeth Warren.

Youre not just a horse, Will hunting. Its not your fault.

he's an actor, let him teach you!

i predict this speech will be smug

This is irresponsible.

he speaks to people with an itching ear, God is not in all his thoughts. I know I am a sinner ,I can not judge. but test these spirits and see if they put fourth their fruits unto the one who sits in the highest heights of heaven. go good will hunting! seek and you shall find. because he can be found.

Jesus christ is jason bourne

So glad I'm not American.

Honorary degree for playing a genius on tv? What a world