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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  filesystem, which is one of the major filesystems used on Linux today. Here ... This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really cool system that I think some of you might like. Ksplice is system for

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him and Jordan '11. For many of you, a campus tour will be one of the first ... to be as tourist-y as possible and take a bunch of pictures of stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and recommendations - and in many cases I was dead-on - which means that my "calibration ... richly varied team of capable people who will support, surprise and inspire

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  of these), and through a textbook on theoretical neuroscience (i ... and the leader of what is now my lab, my resume. He forwarded it on ... much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  myself doing entertaining things (and about twenty pictures of my friends ... difficulty sitting down on account of a sore pelvis. Furthermore, tomorrow ... 'm just not in any condition to compose a proper blog entry today. And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  insistent on seeking the facts. A place of rigor, ingenuity and real ... Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I ... fierce the cultures of MIT dorms can be. Also, for reference, this post on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  comes to a close culminating in graduation and Tech Reunions on our campus ... MIT class. It was quite a party with a record number of classmates and their families in attendance and ended with the final celebration of MIT

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  most of my time doing math. I haphazardly dyed my hair at home and ... about him, and she, of course, looked him up on Facebook.  As she ... .  Yesterday, my mom found a photo of my boyfriend and me on a spring break trip

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  process of creating a remake. I could go on about how meta this is, and how ... is. I have a lot on my plate this summer, and the pressure of staying ... that sort of analysis is too rigorous for this blog post, and also too

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  classes and electives I've taken that focus on the intersection of 6 and 9 ... I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... experiences with Course 6-9 and give an overview of what the major is like

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  , and I even got to read some of my own work on my friend Valentina C. '16 ... became more involved in promoting mental health and general health on ... , and the bad.  I want to focus on the happy things. Here are the happy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  , in the urban locale of Boston and in the cosmopolitan Northeast? "In ... sleeping late on weekends, and tears, smiles, and hugs still feel the same to ... , and traits had I decided to attend any other university or college, even

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  and continued for some hours into the day. Down the other end of the ... the case. I liked the path-of-the-hurricane look and watching people ... consecutive days now and the noise is making it impossible to sleep as I live on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Class of 2026, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have offered early ... , and it is. As a matter of philosophy, we have typically preferred to ... any new information besides the February Updates and Notes Form, which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  the doorstep of my dorm, where the other two EMTs on shift kindly picked ... block them out but cannot claim any real semblance of success. After ... out of the bay. Too bad it didn't move. It whimpered feebly and then

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  teaching three iterations of a three-hour-long class called Hands-on ... -long assortment of classes for middle and high school students organized by the MIT ... and community members. ESP seems to contain most of my Random Hall

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  my poster and have to rely on the copy that my friend Anna has hanging ... 've done just over half of all the items on that chart. One item that I ... Weinberg, co-professor of the fall introductory bio class, 7.012, and Robert

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  city is so diverse and you can find almost any kind of food all over the place - fooood is gooood. And, of course, THE SOX.Favorite movies: The ... River is awesome, and the fact that MIT is right on the riverfront

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  let us enforce curfew on staff with Nerf guns and alarm the rest of ... doing some math and a lot of camp. Mickey Mouse™ won’t tell you this, but ... name like Mathcamp, you’d assume we do a lot of math. And you’re not

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  kinds of questions: post your question on MO and an expert will probably ... about it on MO, and the author of the textbook answered me with an ... . I can tell you what I did: I learned a lot of math! And I didn't

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011