Des autres petites choses: - le campus d'ecole polytechnique est très militaire. les bâtiments ne sont pas très intéressants. le campus est assez petit (mais, c'est parce qu'il y a deux milles (? je pense) étudiants là. ici, il y a quatre mille "undergraduates" et peut-être six mille "graduates". mais, le campus est plus joli, avec plus d'he

Of course cars are bigger, there are a lot of pick up on the streets and it is impossible to see a “small” car like a smart or something like this. to continue talking about car stuff, roads are larger here than in france, but i don’t think these kinds of commentary are the best way to describe another culture. another thing i fond interestin

For sure two days spent in nyc, actually i should say manhattan which is very different, are not enough to be exhausted or even impartial; however, let’s try to figure out a little about this. let’s begin by what was the most striking. the standards of the two cities are obviously very different (transportation, cleaning, dynamism) which makes

Salut matthieu, pour te parler un peu du mit (je consacrerai un vrai article quand j'aurai assisté aux premiers cours), je dirai que ça ressemble au "paradis" pour étudiant !!! le campus (assez grand mais surtout très dense) est complètement inséré dans la ville, même architecturalement il n'y a pas de rupture évidente. et puis surtout j'a

Boston …eclectic city with eclectic people? now in the bus to nyc with natalia and friends after quite a crazy day… it’s high time to write a little about our first impressions. yesterday night we had a walk in the city, downtown. let’s say that i got amazed by how mixed i found the people passing by in the street. i mean, i really found it

Walking on the fifth avenue this morning, i noticed there were a lot of american flag: maybe twelve or more on one building and i guess i saw one every block. so i began looking around to sign any other sign of this american patriotism: flags were everywhere, but i also could see a lot of tiny things which said “ you are in nyc and we are proud o

As you know hatim and alban are leaving next saturday for a week at mit (and a side trip to new york). we are asking them to record and illustrate their experiences throughout their stay in the us and share them with all of you through this blog. one of their main tasks will be to document mit students daily lives and to illustrate two concepts tha

When i came back from the party this night, i have to enter into brandon 's building, and i could do it just asking to the guard and he trusts when i said i was living by someone. i didn't have to show an id, to write my name on a list or anything else. and it's quietly the same in all the mit: the administration of the school trusts it students; m

Quelques réflexions diverses et variées. pour avoir côtoyé un certain nombre de personnes ici, il semble que les américains sont très ouverts et naturels dans le sens par exemple où il est facil de savoir ce qu’une personne pense. en france, nous sommes généralement moins enclin voir pas du tout enclin à laisser transparaître ce que no

Bon maintenant que je suis au mit depuis quelques jours, il est temps de parler un petit peu de la vie sur le campus. deja pour faire une bref descrption du campus lui meme, il est enorme, a peu pres de la taille de l’x mais tout est construit et il n’y pas ces grands champs du nord du campus qui ne servent a rien chez nous. sur la partie est d