A Night with Cranium by Bryan
Myth debunking and Cranium!
MIT: Where we make “nerdy” things fun.
Exhibit A: Mystery Hunt Team Party – Saturday January 20
As if doing puzzles and brain teasers for an entire weekend was not enough, our recent team party included a night filled of Cranium.
Some of my favorite quotes from the night:
In a “Club Cranium” round of Cloodle, I attempted to draw “Baby’s Breath”:
Diana: Are your eyes open?
(Keep in mind Cloodle is the sketching competition where your eyes are open. In Sensosketch, your eyes are closed.)
Apparently my doodles weren’t working.
In a “Club Cranium” round of Humdinger, Diana and others hum the theme song to “Star Wars”:
Shahar: “Star Wars!”
Bryan: “I was about to say that.”
Jenna: “I’ve never seen Star Wars.”
Diana: “Neither have I.”
There you have it folks, you can go to MIT without having seen Star Wars.
A few clutch photos from the evening:
I think we scared Yonas.
Exhibit B: MIT Integration Bee, First Round: Thursday January 25, 2007
Integration Bee Qualifying Testing
Stop by at any point during the session, for a quick test of your single variable integration skills. Top scorers qualify for the Integration Bee. No knowledge beyond 18.01 necessary.
First Spellbound…NEXT: Derivativebound…maybe?
haaa I know those people.
also, I sadly have only seen the new Star Wars (all three). I think that’s probably even worse than not even seeing Star Wars at all, but shh..
I want to watch all the Star Wars movies again now…
First post!
First time!
I didn’t understand this blog at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ankit Chandra
Gaborone, Botswana
Damn I missed it!
People can type fast!
Ankit Chandra
Gaborone, Botswana
I’ve watched most, if not all, of the Star Wars movies. However, I have yet to play Cranium.
Hey Bryan!..pls..could you tell me what’s the integral of 1/1+x^n??(..er..sorry bout posting it here)..and hey!nice blog:-)
And I’d been so worried about not having seen Star Wars. What a relief.
Cranium is awesome. sensosketch is the best!
Nice Post! Yeah I’ve watched all the Star Wars! But haven’t played Cranium yet
Cranium rocks!!!!
My little sister once had to do a cameo, but she didn’t really know who the person was. She got up and said,”Ok…um…I’m an actor….I’m kinda oldish, but not really…” and I immediately blurted, “Sean Connery!” Somehow that turned out to be the correct answer. Freaky.
anju:
hmm.. not sure about this, but here’s what I got:
integral of 1/(1 + x^n) * dx
let u= 1 + x^n
so, du/dx = nx^(n-1)
then, du = dx * nx^(n-1)
substituting, we get
integral of 1/u * du
= integral of du/u
then by substituting again,
integral of (dx * nx^n-1) / (1+x^n)
= integral of (nx^n-1)/(1 + x^n) * dx
if we have integral of f’(x) / f(x) * dx, then the answer is ln Íf(x)Í + C, where C is any constant (the derivative of a constant is zero)
In this situation, f(x) = 1+ x^n-1. Thus, f’(x)=nx^n-1. This is the same as the situation above! Yay!
So the grand answer is …. ln Í1 + x^n Í +C
Hope this helps! Like I said, I’m not sure, so you may want to check..
:D
Lots of functions can’t be integrated simply. 1/(1+x^n) is one of them, it seems. Using the Wolfram Integrator (which uses Mathematica as it’s engine) gives a “hypergeometric function” – can’t be represented without a lot of ridiculous math.
what a fun night
i’m sure i’ll get around to watching star wars at some point in my life. i watched ‘wordplay’ the other night, and being the nerd that i am, loved it. perhaps they’ll do a documentary on the mystery hunt sometime. see you for some trivial times tomorrow i hope 