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  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  Hilbert’s third problem, the problem of defining volume for polyhedra, is a ... square of the same area as the original polygon. One method of doing this ... house H can be decomposed into the orange (O), purple (P), and blue (B

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Macarrones con Queso, Tocino y Jalapeño para los Indigentes haciendo algo más grande que yo

  

  , independientemente de la lucha diaria de MIT, quería tomar tiempo de mi día para hacer ... de que 49 millones de estadounidenses luchan diariamente para poner ... comenzamos una campaña de Indiegogo para alimentar a 100 personas sin hogar en

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  volume of the angstiest metal we could find, heartbroken at the thought of ... entitled to politely anti-haze current members into doing tasks of their wishing. also i guess i'm a frat boi now :O

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  kill me, I do not make a sound. I give you a studfinder. You ask me for ... Life workers everywhere stop what they are doing and hum along in perfect pitch ... do not receive applications. You send out an email for UA applications

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  people but i do not remember this meeting at all. cpw is such a blur -p ... people in my wing, like “What do you miss most from high school?” or “Draw ... ... What do I get for winning? Uh, literally nothing. A sense of pride and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  ’t all bad, I suppose) today I could actually tell you what I’m doing this ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated ... .832: Underactuated Robotics. Help I’m surrounded by grad students :O one of them

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  . They do deliver —  for free! —  to campus right now, via a partnership ... does Daily Table do all this? Well, a Harvard Business School case study ... Daily Table’s product volume came from manufacturers and growers that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  to whatever it was you were originally doing, but can’t because you are ... do nothing, but sit above me acting blind to the tears that wish I ... resorted to the “single finger poke method.” B E N O B E R L T O N. Enter

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  admissions staff thinks that you can hack it, you're in. How can they do that? The application volume is such that there is more capacity for students

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list happened :) Some commentary - THINGS I DID DO (yellow) 1. Pull an all

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it ... to. Keep the future in mind, but live in the present. Enjoy what you do ... all into everything you do. You’ll probably miss at least as often as

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  though, nearly incomprehensible to the vast majority. I do explain that I ... transformative experiences in situations like these, and even do a great deal of ... mini-rant. Have you ever considered how community service became the de

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... studying abroad, I thought I should do a little reflection on my experience ... Madrid), my mind was blown away by Catedral Primada Santa María de Toledo

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  ." List your skills for us. How many programming languages do you know? I ... application. "Tell us about something you do for fun." McGreggor and I ... stayed up until a totally unreasonable hour doing my 8.03 pset, which I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  volume of the comics The Adventures of Tintin. The mural was painted by ... do I mean by who am I? Calm down, get a grip now . . . oh! this is an ... ? Perhaps I can call that . . . wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  here do not deserve recognition but rather that in choosing to display ... , Eric J. Goldberg, Wiebke Denecke, Keeril Makan, Michael De

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  away! Special thanks to Courtney D. '17, Elliot O. '18, Michael J. '18, Marayna M. '18, Fejiro O. '18, Andrea H. '18, Hannah C. '17, Sade N. '17 ... , any messages or friendly words or jokes or anything. We all really do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you ... the semester and plan on doing a reflection sometime before finals ... into something I love (CMS) and am trying to push myself to do things

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel ... where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your ... begin to understand just how many things there are to learn. 4) Do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  students thinking of applying to MIT, his response was quick. “Do it,” he ... ’t think I should even try. Fuck your shit, was my response. I’m doing this. I’m doing it better than anyone else in the school.”   He did

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014