ESP Biography



JOHN FLYNN, Only Requirement: Curiosity




Major: Not available.

College/Employer: MIT

Year of Graduation: 2023

Picture of John Flynn

Brief Biographical Sketch:

*Will be teaching with Alex Weiler from Portland, Oregon*

From Northern VA -

Freshman at MIT: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Mathematics. I grew up with 2 younger brothers, I play soccer for the Men's Soccer Team here.

My mother is a teacher and about half my extended family are teachers. I've enjoyed tutoring and helping coach academic teams throughout my childhood.



Past Classes

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M13673: Brain teasers, problem solving and logic puzzles! in Splash 2019 (Nov. 23 - 24, 2019)
Want to improve your problem-solving abilities with fun, dynamic problems? We will be working on classics like prisoner’s dilemma and the hat problems as well as logic puzzles and game theory. Spend a few hours learning to love and discover the joy of problem solving and improving your lateral thinking. Warning: Once you enter the class, anything is fair game. Just like real-world problems, you don’t know exactly what you’ll need to do beforehand -- the most important thing you take with you is how you approach things. Come ready to be engaged and stretch your brain.


M13674: Brain teasers, problem solving and logic puzzles! in Splash 2019 (Nov. 23 - 24, 2019)
Want to improve your problem-solving abilities with fun, dynamic problems? We will be working on classics like prisoner’s dilemma and the hat problems as well as logic puzzles and game theory. Too often math and logic in high school suffers from rote memorization and the simple application of equations. Spend a few hours learning to love and discover the joy of problem solving and improving your lateral thinking. Warning: Once you enter the class, anything is fair game. Just like real-world problems, you don’t know exactly what you’ll need to do beforehand -- the most important thing you take with you is how you approach things. Come ready to be engaged and stretch your brain. Don’t worry if you don’t have lots of experience with logic puzzles / problem solving, this is not designed to be a gathering of experts. If this class sounds interesting at all, you will enjoy it, it’s not a trap…