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• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  highly.) Maybe it takes root easiest in youth, just like a language of any ... language, curiosity is most easily reinforced through exposure. When you ask

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  messy world, with way too many languages, frameworks, and paradigms for ... really nice language that isn't full of warts...but on the upside, me not

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  the english language, and generally trying to get over the shock that I ... certified SASL (Sarcasm As a Second Language) instructor, and have been known

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  't wrestle into the confines of language or photography. But I forget this and ... language are the substanceless dragonflies that I chased after as a kid. I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  languages some day. An Asian language would be cool. 11. Things that I really

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  in another language! (For all you pre-frosh out there, just think: next ... -blowing, investigating the history of constructed languages, taking PE courses, or just

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  thought the whole world should cater to the dominance of their own language ... language. I couldn’t tell either way, because whether I said grazie with ... partly with relief upon communicating with someone who spoke her language

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ’t think I’ve seen a pronoun like this in other languages. And it’s kinda ... point it is definitely poetry and not etymology. And languages, in ... , after like four years of telling myself I would. Other language-y things I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  this summer for an 8-week Russian language immersion program through a ... completely funded by ROTC, studying strategic languages such as Russian, Korean ... be difficult to fit in language classes at MIT with all of your

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  trips were for Chinese language (funded by the always-generous Global ... (funded by one of my departments, Foreign Languages & Literatures). The ... figure that if I'm studying China I should really learn the language, too

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  Spanish department. You spend 3-4 weeks taking an MIT Spanish language or ... taken a college language class. I ended up interviewing with the teacher ... crammed in a semester’s worth of Spanish. It was by far the best language

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  direct and unambiguous: Read The Atoms of Language by Mark Baker ... here’s the TL;DR to compensate: I chose a language (Montenegrin) to ... languages and form working hypotheses. Assignment 4 – A Poster Presentation (3

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  languages for which you can check if something is in the language in ... to teach more words and thereby began our language lessons. because I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  gendered language, but this is an exception; the counterpart of kuya is ate ... 's the case that reading and writing a language are different skills ... nagtatagalog, at hindi ko kayang mag-reply ng tagalog. language attrition, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  I want to do… Foreign languages. Learning languages is a big hobby ... languages from my experience learning them. At the same time, this is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  advanced level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test"]JLPT N2,[/annotation] founded a high school Japanese language and culture club with my ... primary means by which I stay in touch with the language today. Given how

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  attempting to understand language by lysing the words and fractionating the ... verb in any language to act as the deliberate version of [annotation note ... the language to make ridiculous and ugly portmanteaus when your English

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  be quite common in other languages). I recommend you take a look at ... you just learned, and other languages do indeed have them! (More on this ... languages do, like Korean's vowel [ɯ].) There are other ways to categorize

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  language Lisp, which I’d always wanted to learn, as well as Douglas ... equally fascinating. Lisp is an ancient (1958!) language still in use today ... dozens of research papers (he aims for one every day), books, languages (we

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  language barrier - 5.13 becomes Chem 27 and Course 5 itself is now Chemistry ... harder than Japanese 1. One similarity between MIT and Harvard - languages in college are definitely not like languages in high school. Yeah, they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008