2024 September update: RIP TT Veggies. and this is how: Imagine that you have a perfectly conventional schedule: your lunch is between 1200 and 1300 every single day. After your morning classes, y...

Today I went to some master class in the Shaw Auditorium (mainly to satisfy some requirement). At the end, some guy asked in the Q&A session about what piano students who are disadvantaged reso...

Note: This is a guest post by my friend Eaton Liu. Everyone is equal. People are saying this way too often, to an extent that they no longer understand what it means. For example, some people may ...

I hate indices, every last one of them. I don’t mean indices as in power, the little number on the top right corner of a bigger number, nor a measure of something, often seen ticking in stock excha...

In this post I will talk about the absolutely trivial inequality [x \leq \lvert x \rvert .] This is easily seen. If $x$ is positive, it is equal to its absolute value. If it is negative, it is of...

Today is my 0th day as a mathematics student.

Filet-O-Fish is the earliest McDonald’s sandwich I remember tasting. Everyone’s favourite food is their mama’s and, in a sense, Filet-O-Fish touches on an even deeper level. The fluffy soft bun per...

Don’t pull out the Soviet/French curriculum. We assume the average intelligence walking monkey. Modern mathematics (for now at least) builds on sets. Of course mathematics is not all about studyin...

I should recall what enabled me to do STEP problems nearly a year ago. One equation per line Clear, big writing Leave space between letters and lines Read the...

The Cream Soda is perhaps among the most bizarre and perplexing human inventions. I have only tasted that green-and-yellow canned one by Schweppes but I would suspect my experiences coincide with d...