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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.

  

  -endpoint points within any one segment belong to the same edge or edges. (In the ... of pearls on—or, in other words, assign the same positive integer to ... -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then ... :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I ... sixteen positions, varying the current from 0mA to 150mA in 10mA steps

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
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  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  full sentences. If I really need to think about it, I’ll write in Spanish ... entered Kindergarten with. There isn’t a lot to do in a small town, so ... inside me.  One night last year, I went to see a concert in Fenway with

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  -long classes, to lots of students, in MIT's campus. The differences are when ... rocket, How to be very smart (like us), and Gayness Is Defiance. In the ... February to April. For Spring HSSP, I was in charge of dealing with class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... background science too quickly. Trying to please everyone here. (Here. In ... that in real life) Guys. Science is really, really cool. It's amazing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  here do not deserve recognition but rather that in choosing to display only these individuals in a corridor dedicated to all of SHASS ignores ... , infused with careful critical thinking—a tribute to SHASS in style as well

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring ... to live in these places until your second year at MIT. Figure 1b ... , the probability of A given that B has happened or is true is equal to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... , because that's what I do when I'm feeling melodramatic (or feeling, in ... dangling in the air, wondering what it’d be like to walk on the ceiling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form ... and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  to a different school, or picked an easier schedule in this one. But I ... , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never ... . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  and pressure sensor in future), or press the right button to snooze. If ... much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... having a specific focus or lens in which EECS is taught. This class focuses

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
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  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise. Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday conversation. Or something like that." And then I get real sad, so I go back to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I ... therapeutic and it was nice to check in with myself, so I encourage you to ask ... Zoom dinner with them to check in and see how they're doing.  

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... of mind to talk about why I was interested in Foobar University. Oh ... ; furthermore, people walk at close to three miles per hour, or sixty blocks per

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  out little scenarios in my head about ways to react, or how my friends ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... things I had done to keep myself occupied in the summer, though it was

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... one thing. But displaying my intellectual incompetence to them in real ... people do Next Haunt in groups of five or six). Jebby and Aiden were

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  welcomed, and the freshmen you met in your last year and were able to mentor ... to it in darker times. Words of caution: beware of connecting your ... ), or just a random nerdy conversation in the lounge, those are the times

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
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  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In ... ’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying ... top of that to absorb liquid Without a proper scalpel or other proper

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  or at home to live in the Institute dormitories", with specific mention ... order from top to bottom, or you can stick to a single category and only ... : Historical context: notes on MIT's history in general, changes to the format of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021