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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.

  

  that all elements of the solution must be greater than or equal to 1, we ... equidecomposable or equicomplementable polyhedron β1, ..., βs, there must be some ... , ..., ns and a nonnegative integer k2. We get ∑ 1 and ∑ 2 by adding the

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

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  sample. -- 1) People love Indian food and/or frozen ... Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can’t say I truly miss the Lagrange multipliers or the gyroscopes (No – never

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  knowing my memory is not forever, that one day these silly or emotional or ... bouquet, Or offer a market assessment, Of the future of Valentine's Day. We ... applications to MIT, or off at a different school just enjoying the blogs, these

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  -stop from reg day to the last final. However, the Sabbath (institutionalized ... studying for their bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD. The vast majority of the ... -Thursday: 7:30–Wake up, roll over and fall asleep 7:50–Wake up again, play a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  remainder of my action plan for the next 7 days of war.     ... pictures). Part 7: The Battles Go On... So the whole Students and Sleep vs ... -night dining hall food to survive thrive. [carousel image1="107365" image2

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
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  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  dips or bursts of energy throughout a given day. And there are more ... Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours. On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... laptops in their book bags or purses, exposed to the elements. The thought ... not as safe. It’s a good idea to lock your laptop for bathroom or lunch

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  , while every manufacturer was shut down or out of stock. After a few days ... idea Sabrina blogged about in the past too.  I've lifted 3-4 days a week ... 't have any CAD software or training, so I started by sketching out my plans

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  So quite recently I made a post on Facebook about a few things I had ... 'Subtle Asian Traits' page that has been making its way around the Facebook ... pretty small percentage of black people (about 6% of undergrads and about 1

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  cleaned up my ideas and added some formatting, and thus this blog post was born. Maybe this will help someone, or maybe it will be totally ... overlap). But here's what I came up with: 1) It's okay to miss home

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  something, probably science or technology, maybe writing or music or theater ... , engineering, business, or anything, really, you will experience this even more ... . Regardless of whether or not you go to MIT, you have a long, uphill battle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  Central Square and take the T or the 1 bus, or even take the 91 to Central ... scaffolding. On particularly hot or rainy days, it's nice to have the extra ... about it. If you're an incoming freshman or thinking of applying, this won

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , or sick. Adding -ulo turns it to a person, malsanulo, someone who is ... people, or a hospital. Finally, adding -et- makes it smaller ... hours or so before Splash, and several hours on the day-of, which was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  . I spent the first four days of break doing absolutely, very delicious, nothing – and on the fifth day, my drive, which had been in sleep mode, woke ... eighth day, my self-reflection woke up. Since then, I've been thinking a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  to stare at code for 6-7 hours a day. I could never be a code monkey ... to study has not been the smoothest or most straightforward road. It ... every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  free stuff culture. Offices or people who are getting rid of things will ... is a Putzen. Two or more people who live on Putz are also Putzen ... possible, but it would take a greater man than I, or at least one with fewer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  penitentiary or a zoo, where in random erratic surges, with sparrowlike ... the underseasoning of the fish sticks, or is it a function of the ... , it appears that either I am spacelike separated from my cell phone or

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  just giving snapshots into MIT life. For the first couple days (or at ... her struggles to a camera every day." UPDATE 5/1/15 It's been an ... VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You

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

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

  

  [carousel image1="60404" image2="60405" image3="60413" /] Day-to-day life ... seems like the closest would be 6-1 or 10. « 1895 Schools and courses ... units for lab, and 7 units for "outside preparation", or homework, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• 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?

  

  , not all of which is residents, from 7:07pm Sunday, May 3, through 1:47am ... you have five psets. You don’t know where the extra pset came from or ... again. There is a tunnel from lobby 7 to the basement of W20. Farther

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016