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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.

  

  classroom I passed a girl from among my soon-to-be audience. We made eye ... one of my hopes for my technical education at MIT: as a 6-7/18 major, I ... -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 / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  -pushing mechanisms warms my heart like a big hug from Bryan Nance (not that I ever get ... I've always been a procrastinator. I've procrastinated on such tasks from toddling around on the carpet and thinking "I suppose I'll try

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  let loose. It only lasted for a few chaotic seconds before I doubled ... awake for the next 18 hours?” or “Can I spare enough time to go scream ... fascinating tour through a world I’ve always dreamed of exploring. It can be

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35 ... 've spent hours at a time like this, discussing topics ranging from Computer ... , let's be honest here for a second. There are plenty of very respectable

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  about their travels, I thought I would add a few comments from my trip ... in a plug for your having the interview. Last year I posted a blog ... . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

   Credit For Reddit, when Alyssa and I baked a bajillion cookies and enticed ... * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve ... -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  required courses, or that they can only handle three classes at a time for a ... Luncheons where I was a panelist. When they tell me this, after, I realize that I’ve been at this for a long time, long enough for it to come around

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  lots of other people! For me, this sounds like: My Worst Nightmare! A ... ! I took improvised solos for seven years. I joined the middle school ... before the start of the solo, he would give me a smile and a nod. I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in ... museum's function coordinator asked for our permission to use a photo from ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  them still intact. Sorry for the “Admittedly” pun back there. I just can ... Jeff ‘18: you're great roommates. To be fair, I’ve had this coming for a ... myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  special case for whom inconsistency can be excused. At a fourth institution ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... branches. It's sort of like a retrograde exchange program, where they use

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  really as difficult as it felt? I found a deep appreciation for how my ... for nap time To make this plot, I had to “jitter” the dots a bit over ... my friends outside of class. I should have searched for a healthier

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  bed and get ready for work. It takes a long time. I am not what one ... made out a detailed schedule for the week yesterday, so I already know ... , room temp. 10:30 AM. I start making LB agar, a kind of salty Jello for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  which I am not grateful for the privilege of having been a part of that ... words, I think MIT can take much of the credit for the shift we've seen on ... ." Over the years I've been given a lot of credit for my work on pioneering

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  the book launch, my dad and I stayed in New York for a few days, and I ... with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  Hey guys! I know it's been a little while since I have blogged. The ... , observing in a local high school classroom, interviewing for cool jobs ... like Tungsten is, it's spread out as a gas. For electric current to flow

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  's a single historical source where you can read about these kinds of ... order from top to bottom, or you can stick to a single category and only ... . I'm sorry. Have a picture of Ice Bear for consolation. « 1880

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Events

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two ... first event of the weekend, I went into the wings eating contest with a pretty cavalier attitude—it's just wings. I like wings. It can't be that

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011