Rahnuma Aroshi ’25

Rahnuma Aroshi
Rahnuma Aroshi is a junior majoring in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences with a minor in education.

She is very interested in language processing in the brain and the relationship between cultural ties and retaining mother languages. During the summer of 2023, Aroshi worked in the MIT Media Lab as an intern for the AC Counting project, where she researched numbers in over 100 languages and raised awareness about indigenous languages. During wintersession in her sophomore year, Aroshi participated in the Arabic program in Morocco and learned about the Moroccan dialect and culture while visiting different historical and educational sites. On campus, she is part of Al-Muslimat, the Bangladeshi Students Association, and El Table. Aroshi is fluent in Bangla and intermediate in Arabic, but she would love to learn more languages. After graduating, Aroshi wants to explore speech-language pathology and incorporate cultural sensitivity and multilingual learning into the field.