MIT-Student Remarks
Nicholas Pearce is a proud advocate of programs that help young people from urban areas transition into higher education. He has not only benefited from such programs, but has given back through his participation as a volunteer, mentor, and speaker. As a high schooljunior, he attended MIT’s six-week summer program, Minority Introduction to Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Science (MITE2S). “It gave me a quick snapshot of the dreams I could pursue,” said Pearce. It was a life-changing experience for him — one that he wishes were available to many more students. As an MIT undergraduate, he served as an instructor and mentor to more than 100 Boston-area public high school students in MIT’s Saturday Engineering Enrichment & Discovery Academy (SEED). Programs such as these “decidedly shatter the underachieving stereotype,” said Pearce. Unfortunately, enrichment opportunities like these are under fire around the country by “enemies of socioeconomic civil rights.” He urged other universities to follow MIT’s example, and not back down to pressure, lest the “civil rights advances of the last 50 years dissipate to nothing.”
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