<p>MIT currently doesn't graduate students with honors, right? Was this a new change? Because in the book "Bringing Down the House" (amazing by the way!) it commonly references to students graduating with honors:
"Keven Lewis was graduating with honors from MIT and going..." (p113).</p>
<p>Nope, no honors, no ranks, no cum laude.</p>
<p>The degree does all the talking :)</p>
<p>And MIT has never graduated with honors, either. The book is incorrect.</p>
<p>EDIT: You can be invited to join honor societies, like Tau</a> Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, but it's not noted anywhere at graduation if you were part of one.</p>
<p>awesome, because the idea of not creating unecessary competition is good</p>
<p>exactly :)</p>
<p>Plus they like to emphasize that the degree itself is the honor ;)</p>
<p>that's so cool. MIT is one of the few schools that does that right?</p>
<p>If there is no class rank at MIT, and thus no valedictorian, who gives the graduation day speech?</p>
<p>The class president gives a short speech, and the long speech is given by a guest speaker.</p>
<p>I guess Weird Al was incorrect in the song "White and Nerdy" then.</p>
<p>haha they played that song at my prom. "graduated at the top of my class at MIT"</p>
<p>the music video is sweet too!</p>
<p>"First in my class here at MIT..."</p>
<p>Yes, Weird Al was incorrect in "White and Nerdy", I think that was one of the first comments I heard anyone mention when that song came out. But it sounded so <em>right</em> with the rest of the lyrics!</p>
<p>l0l yes that's right :D</p>