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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  I fly a lot. Fact: aside from April and July, I’ve flown every month ... annoyed at the airline too. (“The only reason why I still fly with them is ... flies hundreds of flights each day can be so remarkably inefficient when

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  I’ve found myself being reflective recently about a lot of things. A simple walk home across the bridge counting the Smoots as I go brings all kinds of thoughts to…

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  . :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish ... : the famous breakup phrase. In Spanish, "It's not you, it's me," becomes ... Spanish makes more grammatical sense, because you actually conjugate the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  , Italian, and Spanish during IAP, and it's all included in your usual tuition

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  Boston.) Last January, I took a Spanish conversation class in Madrid with the Spanish department (I wrote a blog post about it—check it out here ... Spanish got exponentially better, and it inspired me to start taking

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• 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 Paolo 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
• 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