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Till next time

The days pass by as we rush towards finals week, almost crossing the finish line for this first semester. It’s funny how it seems like just yesterday we all were trying to settle into college.

Student becomes corporation

After hearing about how “corporations and people are basically the same,” and “corporations make a lot of money,” one entrepreneurship-minded business student saw an opportunity to get firsthand startup experience and has now become a corporation.

The app sampler, pt. II: and now I wait

This past Saturday, I hit the submit button on all my applications for Ph.D. programs in mathematics. I ended up applying to five schools, which was narrowed down from the 10 or so schools I had on the shortlist for much of the fall semester.

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

The word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the first Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.

Q: What is the meaning of life?

Claire:

Wow, what a complicated question! While I’m certainly no expert on philosophy, I’m happy to give my input. I think that at this point in the semester, people start asking themselves this question more often because they start to wonder if all this work is actually worth it or if we’re just wasting our time.

How to RRR

And just like that, we’ve made it to December again. Another semester is almost behind us with imminent finals breathing down our necks.

The tricky mathematics of ice skating

One of the difficult aspects of mathematics is that it often scales poorly with the complexity of the problem. Math is great when there are relatively few variables and nice functions (for instance, continuous and differentiable functions) involved.

The forgotten Hanukkah story of Judith

Countdown to Hanukkah: 17 days! Celebrating the festival of lights surrounded by my family and friends is something I look forward to every year.

Home sweet home

The smell of burning wood, the warmth of the fire, the comfort of the soft yellow lights. There is nothing like home.