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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.

  

  been scared were going to judge me. (If you’re reading this, thank you so ... or more segments that, placed end to end, make up the total length of ... -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  and attach them to the components below. This made it possible to make ... I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a ... new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  your den FROSH: to cry about your future ME: ME: ME: ME: so hey do ... : you should come to auditions ME: no experience required ME: we ... MINNESOTA: what high school did you go to FRIEND FROM MINNESOTA: do you know

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  had to make an automatic panorama from some images that we took (we wrote the code to make the panorama: basically, you detect features and ... it makes perfect sense to build a laser into a lip balm tube. It has a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  to make summer plans when another email rolls into to the dorm mailing ... sufficiently important to make me worry about if we are doing them right. The ... check-ins and host office hours to try and make sure things stay on the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  disciplined and make consistent content. I'm going to use it to motivate myself to make some low-commitment dailyvlogs, avoiding scripts and mostly ... make sure it stays on the front page -- thankfully I've only needed to do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... ’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this just feels TOO IMPORTANT to NOT share with incoming freshmen that might

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  ’ve grown up to make Alabama a better place. I won’t say that Alabama itself ... inquisitive, creative people who are using what they have to try making the ... i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  brain cells to write something thoughtful right now, but submitting your ... close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... Reif had dared to escape the horrors! Despite the fact that I’ve been ... excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  you if you're nice to them first. What have other people's experiences ... When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston ... wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and ... summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  opinion, is a good place as long as you're willing to actually contribute ... For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  that we interview don’t know how to make stuff, because workshops ... added that students were being taught to use computer programs to make ... , making a computer 3D model isn’t the best way to start an idea

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... surrounded by this deluge of words and stories had something to do with my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  out of bed to get ready (bathroom, brushing teeth, etc.). Making it out ... semester and I want to make them special, I put on my very favorite shirt ... about making it to my 1 pm on time, but I get in line. Luckily, it moves

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  come by and cheer me up by making fun of how I dance to Fergie*. I ... everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  -Ford search algorithm is going to make me a better person, why should I waste my ... began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... ’t focus (quite literally) long enough to find it. I left to pick up some

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a ... work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018