MIT Holiday Greeting 2021

Happy Holidays from MIT President Rafael Reif and Christine Reif!

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2021 MIT Holiday Greeting Credits

Produced by the MIT community
Holiday E-greeting team:
Creative director: Emily Muldoon Kathan
Core team: Brielle Domings, Katha Washburn
Music: Valerie Chen ’22, cello
Video production: Bearwalk Cinema
Creative guidance: Julie Fox, Brian Geer, Johnny Lin, Barbara Malec, Martha Eddison Sieniewicz, Erica Voigt, Aaron Weinberger, and Mary Zyskowski
Email and digital production: Russell Boulais, Greg Bourne, Gina D'Allesandro, Emily Dufresne, Kimberly Mancino, Kate Repantis, Steve Thomas, Margaret Wong,
and MIT Alumni Association Chief Executive Officer Whitney T. Espich

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With special thanks to community members:
Nancy Adams, Peggy Eysenbach, Connie Ly ’24, Sonny Oram (Edgerton Center and MIT D-Lab)
Peter Houk, Michelle Trammel (MIT Glass Lab)
Danielle Herman ’22, James Hunter, Mike Tarkanian (Flemings Materials Processing Lab)
Tasker Smith, Scott Spence, Alyssa Wells-Lewis ’21 (Pappalardo Lab)
Dr. John Dolhun ’72, PhD ’73, Manny Guzman G, Peter Miedaner G, Abigail Scott ’22, Amanda Trainor, (MIT Department of Chemistry)
Andrew Husband, Leah Ofsevit (MIT Sloan School of Management)

And with special contributions from:
Karla Casey, Margaret Ciocca, Jessica Fimbres, Ollie Gelmont, Melanie Gonick, Niki Hinkle, Alyssa Holland, Carrie Johnson, Peter Muise, MIT Music and Theater Arts, Yi Jennifer Tu, Rebecca Tyler, Liz Washburn, Lauren Wojtkun.

And with special contributions from:
Karla Casey, Margaret Ciocca, Jessica Fimbres, Ollie Gelmont, Melanie Gonick, Niki Hinkle, Alyssa Holland, Carrie Johnson, Peter Muise, MIT Music and Theater Arts, Yi Jennifer Tu, Rebecca Tyler, Liz Washburn, Lauren Wojtkun.

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[mahshidahamid]

It's so beautiful, and I hope someday I'll make it to the MIT.

[beingsurfers]

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[SalesforceUSA]

Ceylon
3 days ago
I graduated from MIT in 1969. I miss my college life., , ,

[Amitaloy]

Amazing. Happy safe holidays everyone. Thankful

[ramizr]

Panicking rn ... EA decision is about to reveal🤥

[amulyakumarsamal]

MIT USA world's most prestigious institute in terms of science and technology providing winter vacation . But my nuisance school cancel winter vacation of 11 th and 12 th class.

[HaiderAli-lrfw]

Can I get music name used in between 1:30 till the end?

[Martin]

Hello everybody! Excuse me can you someone tell me please how can i patent and sell for example new gadget or technology in USA if i not american? Or how can i contact for negotiations and try sell it to Samsung, Bosch...?

[parshuramputra]

Hey MIT, I love you. Please accept my proposal in form of acceptance for transfer application in fall 2022.

[RoyalDog]

Wow! Why would you guys deny Peter Parker and his friends from attending MIT? You do realize that Peter Parker is Spider-Man and he's been protecting us from the force of evil, like Thanos right? You guys should really reconsider letting them attend based on their academic performance alone!

[ethan-L]

I don't think we need to see the bygone cliché of the holiday greeting video with a singular religious music.

I had often experienced and witnessed the darn racism, sexism, and other discriminations and silly hatred and harassments in many levels among students, in the dorms, frats, in the classrooms, studios and labs, also from the young faculty and the staff. Lots of suicides and bizarre stories of many new students getting depressed from ridicules of other students. The Campus Police was really careless and the international student office unhelpful but discriminated us often in abusive manners. My school day was very "traumatizing." Soon, many mature students from many departments, many of whom females and blacks, rose to speak against the institute's bias, and politics in faculty, and, that is when the school rank dropped for 2-3 years in the following years as we rated our own school less than great. I still sense the faculty of my department today chosen by their political agenda. And, the some of the recent alumni reps are chosen for their political spec building.

In alumni correspondence, Singular and vague comments of the president alone is not enough. I delete after reading the emails. uninspiring.

I would rather see the genuine promotion of the students and alumni doing something together actively for non-discriminative environments, for equality, for anti-hate, and humanity taught and advocated throughout the school years and as part of the goals and ethics of the education.

[trachea]

The old ones from a few years ago were better

[ElDinho]

Healthy people wearing masks. They should not be at MIT