“Learning Japanese alongside bio engineering gives me greater ability to work and collaborate with other engineering teams abroad.”
Andres Alvarado, SB '20, Bioengineering major, Japanese minor.
"The benefit of language is so clear--how it opens up new doors. You can imagine yourself in places you couldn't have imagined before."
Charles Huang, SB '11
“Being able to converse with another person in their native language and enjoy their food and culture is just euphoric. The world is so big and wide and beautiful.”
Sarah T. Vu, SB '21, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science major, Chinese minor.
“At an institute that is so technically focused, I really enjoyed having a smaller, discussion-based class that pushed me to think about the world through a different lens.”
“I think that having this wider range of knowledge and perspectives has already made me a more empathetic person because I can better relate with peers of more diverse backgrounds.”
Gabriel Mintzer, SB '21, Physics and Computer Science major, Chinese minor.
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