Rain doesn’t dampen excitement of MIT’s 2013 Commencement
Friday, June 7, 2013 - 18:00
in Mathematics & Economics
In a steady rain, 2,635 newly minted graduates received their MIT degrees in Killian Court today after hearing advice and encouragement from someone who was in their place on a similarly rainy June morning just eight years ago: Drew Houston ’05, co-founder and CEO of the successful startup Dropbox.“Now you need to go out and find another fire hose,” Houston said, in a riff on the fabled quotation equating an MIT education with “drinking from a fire hose.” He said that his post-MIT fire hose has been the company he started soon after graduating from the Institute. // // Permalinks option function flashPutHref(href) { location.href = href; } //...