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  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  . this fact took me a day to wrap my head around the first time i saw it ... seem absurd at first glance and obvious in hindsight, so you get used to ... is the function used to generate the public key from the private key

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the ... many Black women – women who have had to overcome many intellectual and ... . Here are some parts that stood out to me because of their connection to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  cover a host of truly amazing feats. It was my first real introduction to ... I apply to US universities. At first I was reluctant, but I realized ... , dreamy tone people usually use to describe things like “winning the lottery

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  the next."]early[/annotation]to class, for the first time in possibly ... so sunny! This outdoor path is parallel to the Infinite Corridor, so we ... 'm on my way to hang out with a friend in the Rainbow Lounge, but first I

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

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  down the Infinite Corridor and just smile to myself, in awe of everything ... school because of its arbitrarily bureaucratic hoops. To give you an idea ... time) to respond with "Stick it to the Man" when people asked what he

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  that was close to campus but also allow me the chance to get a first hand ... river and forget the intensity that can be MIT is key to finding balance ... goodbye post to share with you… When I was an undergraduate at MIT I spent

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  relative to my body, and, say, play the E5 key with my right index finger ... ’t know where all the keys were, you’d have to alternate between looking at ... the first one, if your accuracy slips from 100% to 90% you’ve only lost

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  first part of the study, supposedly to measure their personal spatial ... There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  down the Infinite, you begin to hear a distinct patter coming from ... brain." The first thing you realize when you go talk to Nicholas Ferri is ... in the Infinite, as well as a friend to the janitorial staff and the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  the monthly rent was high (relative to the other options). Sublet an ... in MIT's graduate dormitories) in Boston/Cambridge, but want to live elsewhere in the summer. These people then sublet their space to students like

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  Today was the first day of classes at MIT. Once again, the Infinite ... . For the Class of 2011, these are their very first MIT classes. I only vaguely remember my first day of classes at MIT back in the Fall of 1996. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  battle, and hiking have to do with each other? hmmm... If you guessed ... resistance and thus being able to maintain a current without a voltage. The only problem with these awesome devices is that they require you to cool

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to be solved. The first part of the problem, on equidecomposability ... leaves the first polyhedron’s contributions to its superfigure and the ... -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

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  machine. Our first stop would be Ashmont, then taking the trolley to ... took the first bus we saw, a 22 bus, which went to Terminal A. Alan: But ... ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  semester’s seemingly infinite to-do list. There was empathy for her family ... remembered for her big heart, bright mind, and beautiful smile. According to ... , confusing everyone, making weird sounds, and refusing to be consoled until it

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  place in history as some of the first people with complete access to the ... ="They all told me to stick with the first school, where I was already set to ... [/annotation] It is my lifetime goal to try a corndog For the first time in my life

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  Infinite since I came to MIT, and I highly recommend it. There's a role for ... was Rebirth. At first, I had no idea what I wanted to do with that. But ... This year, I made a spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine. The magazine

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  students could be admitted to become either first-years or second ... continued" in the first term, where here, algebra probably refers to quadratic ... course, MS21, is more theoretical compared to first-year Military Science

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  an hour or so, I left morning check-in and headed to the first class I ... ’s surprisingly fun. I first learned the game in PROMYS. When I introduced it to my ... this was the first ESP discussion I went to. What struck me the most

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  first problem of the first problem set and wanted to cry. The second pset ... It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam ... Infinite is filled with excited chatter and slowly walking walls of tourists

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016