SMRT

SMRT DID YOU KNOW? Human females are the second-largest female primate, but Human males are only the third-largest male primate. Wait youre Course 9, and you like Dr. Phil? As promised, I headed over to the MIT Integration Bee this evening. It was pretty cool, but it not rule quite as thoroughly as I had hoped. For one thing, the integrals were incredibly, unbelievably, brain-screamingly difficult. I mean, it goes without saying that Im not smrt enough to do them, but these were even too difficult for some of MITs best fifth-year mathematics graduate student integralists. So the #7 and #10 seeds in the tournament missed the first five integrals. Which makes for 20 minutes of just not too much fun if you ask me. But then the #8 seed was Dave Shin 05, who is apparently like a superhero or something, and he started solving the integrals in like 30 seconds, and after that things started seriously rocking out. I had a list of my favorite integrals from the competition, but I forgot it. So, Ill type them up for you tomorrow and you can fail to solve them for yourself (just like I did on all but two of them) and then look at the answers down below. Really, with the advent of the Wolfram Integrator online, theres no reason for me to learn this anymore. Plus, engineers dont do math. Sometimes if Im lucky I can solve like, dT/dt 2 * T = 0. The timer/integral display. You cant appreciate it here, but the little CLIFTON guys next to the timer were actually like animated GIFs that did integrals as the time counted down. It was astounding. The integral shown was the warm-up round before the proper competition started. Dave Shin 05 eventually solved this particularly tricky integral. I know you think it doesnt look that cool here, but when he got it, a whole lecture hall full of people ended up getting really excited. How excited, Sam? Really excited, Chester. You might think these are just misrepresented photos from a different event, but nolook at their cheeks. Only at MIT.