A festive day for MIT’s 146th Commencement exercises
Thousands of friends and family members packed Killian Court today for MIT’s 146th Commencement exercises. Many brought umbrellas in case of rain, only to use them as shade from the warm sun — a welcome guest after a week of wet weather in the Boston area. As their guests steadily filled Killian Court, graduates crowded into Rockwell Cage, a celebratory mood filling the air.As they found their places in line, soon-to-be graduates posed for pictures and made last-minute adjustments to caps and gowns. Christopher Brathwaite, about to graduate with an SB in materials science and engineering, was hard at work affixing a handmade hat to his mortarboard. “This hat got me an A,” Brathwaite said. The graduating senior had taken an MIT course in costume design, fashioning an Easter Sunday hat from gold and silver foil and other found objects. In addition to working with materials in the lab, he...