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• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  ) derives from Latin musca (meaning "fly") and through Portuguese/Spanish

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  exams in 5.111 (chem), 14.01 (econ), 21F.703 (spanish), and 8.02 (physics ... ...haha =p Yang Pei-An, "I Believe" I want to fly until I am shoulder

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  just much easier to call it "Spanish Lit" or something? Really now ... Spanish-English dictionary and now I'm fully ready to take some Spanish at ... proficiency at Spanish, so we'll see how that goes. Maybe my AP Spanish score

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  was in most of my classes in high school (Spanish included), and even though he drove me crazy, he helped me learn a ton of Spanish. (If we were ... I respond to him in Spanish, then would return the note with his

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  a pi day (decision) story 3/14/21 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  wait. You can watch Ellen and me fly around campus trying to avoid robots

  • by Tim
  • March 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  Spanish department. You spend 3-4 weeks taking an MIT Spanish language or ... ’re studying at the Instituto Internacional in Madrid, living with a Spanish ... about the program for two main reasons. First, I took AP Spanish in high

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  Hey, did a Red Sox game just start? The dorm just shook and it sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has to offer: front row seats to fly-overs. [Update] Yeah, I think there

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT have a first generation community on campus?

  The First Generation and/or Low Income Program (FLI) is committed to building a sense of community among first generation MIT students, faculty, alumni, and staff, and raising awareness of their unique experiences
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  try out. Then, during my sophomore IAP, I took a Spanish conversation ... Spanish art. Also, over the past year or so, I've discovered a group on ... language skills. So for instance, if I want to practice Spanish, and since I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  communication protocols, and got to work writing a paper (in Spanish! I'm so proud ... minutes (in Spanish!) about the challenges of applying Java (which I know ... happened in Spanish! Which is pretty awesome, but also sort of overwhelming

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  Chinese, ESL, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and only one level of ... was held entirely in Spanish, so it was pretty advanced, but I enjoyed it a lot. Knowing Spanish has made learning Italian both easier and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  century, when the Spanish Bishop of Urgell and the French Compte de Foix ... --Andorran, Spanish, and French, each sponsored by one of the three countries. The ... is one of the few places where they routinely speak both Spanish and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  You may have heard of the MIT Flying Club, which I'm not actually active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to fly until post-MIT - in the meanwhile, I'm mostly spending my time

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  HASS-D: Language)Spanish II - in Madrid!HASS Elective, counts for Spanish Concen.Spanish IIIHASS Elective (or HASS-D: Language), counts for Spanish ... Econ), Spanish (have to take Spanish IV), or even Japanese (have to take

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The name of the "avocado" comes from the Spanish "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New ... the Spanish word that sounded closest to it. Hey, according to Matt

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  is the Spanish class I'm currently taking for HASS credit. Today we ... translates into English, but if you can speak Spanish, you should definitely

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  practice my horrible, horrible Spanish. I also went to Tokyo the summer ... loving home for my boyfriend, dog, and I and also to fly back home ... lessons! doing Spanish classes. One of my goals in life is to attain

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  with degrees in Spanish and Biology. She says she's the first student to graduate with a degree in Spanish. She knows five languages. "Word hard, play ... LOT of typing. Anyhow, I've been translating on the fly, so sorry if

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  Logan. But I don't hate flying. In fact, I kind of like it. Sure ... to splash in some language classes in there (namely Spanish, Korean

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6:30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014