Matt Damon

Nearly 20 years after Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon has returned to MIT aka Massachusetts Institute of Technology (although, to be fair, much of Gus Van Sant‘s film was shot at the University of Toronto). Rather than a mop in hand, the actor has given a commencement address to this year’s graduating class in which he touched on everything from villainous bankers to Donald Trump to his Hollywood experience.

“This world has some problems that we need you to drop everything and solve,” he said. “So go ahead and take your pick from the world’s worst buffet: economic inequality, how about the refugee crisis, massive global insecurity, climate change, pandemics, institutional racism, nativism, fear-driven brains working overtime.”

Check out his full speech below and see Steven Spielberg‘s recent Harvard speech here. We’ve also included a deleted scene from The Martian, which will get an extended edition release next week.

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