Rubik’s Cube
Note: This article was published while I was in my early 20s. I was much younger and dumber. Please don't hold it against me. One of the perils of having a 20+ year old website!
Towards the beginning of the semester (thank God it’s over), my friend Jenn was showing me how to solve the Rubik’s Cube- something I never was and still am not able to do. Last night another friend of mine got me one for Christmas and I have more or less been thinking about it non-stop. I know there are countless resources that will tell you the solution, but I’d like to understand how it works instead of just memorizing an algorithm or two. My brother was showing me today how to solve it, but when I asked why we’d do it that was he’d say, “It’s how the algorithm is.” Jenn did tell me what I was trying to accomplish, but now that we are on Winter Break, it looks like I’m on my own.
