Miguel Buitrago is a senior majoring in linguistics and philosophy, with minors in computer science and math. In this video spotlight, Miguel talks about growing up in a bilingual household and his path toward studying linguistics. He also shares the evolution of his thinking about 24.141 (Logic 1), which he was reluctant to take at first, but ended up becoming one of his most memorable SHASS classes. “Slowly over the course of the semester, I kind of realized the elegance of the system we were looking at,” he says.
For the first talk of Heim-Fest (our celebration of the career of Irene Heim, recent recipient of the Rolf Shock prize), Matt Mandelkern joins to talk about Witnesses
