MIT senior cracks up Matt Damon with rapping graduation speech
MIT senior class president Anish Punjabi closed his commencement speech at graduation on Friday with a rush of rap riffing on Matt Damon’s film career, sending the actor into hysterics.
Punjabi, graduating with a double major in Finance as well as Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, filled his rap with puns on the titles of Good Will Hunting and Jason Bourne:
We’re born to chase them dreams like Jason.
Stretch and tested, yoga mat
Like Damon but he solves equations.
Hunting for a chance to change
His good will patience did sustain
So too are we illuminating.
Punjabi’s wordplay cracked up Damon, who spoke to the crowd just beforehand.
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It wasn’t just Damon, of course. The crowd of “engineers with added heart, epitome of Tony Stark,” as Punjabi called them, sprang into applause as his rap came to a close.
Punjabi’s lyrical language proves one thing: It’s been a good week for stylized commencement speeches at Cambridge’s top universities.
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