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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…

  

  currently running kernel source and the configuration settings, combined with ... the Linux kernel with a security update without rebooting the computer

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

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  tagging along with my host—a fellow artist/dancer and a Course 20 ... (even one who was sleeping with his mouth wide open!) After this lecture ... science course) and the general tour, I met up with my host and a couple

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  due tomorrow (halfway through with each), I UROP from 2 to 6 today ... , I will be done with all psets (this is just a theory). I'll spend the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  . There might have been sea otters!). Instead I found a table with a bunch ... . Come August you’ll all be getting your ID cards and with them YOU CAN ... reference, cover two topics with one phrase. The first thing your ID card lets

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me ... points if: you are pictured with other MIT '12s (use the admitted students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  expensive). March 22nd came and Michelle and I loaded up our backpacks with ... hash browns and saw a girl with an MIT sweatshirt on. "Michelle, see ... in Boston. Our destination was to be Modern Pastry, which we found with

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  good day with your standard digital camera - especially when that thing ... eclipse with me. My dorm, Simmons, has two fantastic terraces that are open

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  to Nate and his friend Alicia*), I spoke with one high school senior ... . Sangeeta Bhatia. She has done really cool work with designing injectable ... nanoparticles with applications in therapy and disease diagnosis. On the physical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  rooms are filled with piles of psets. AND, here’s what I think is ... couple of weeks of Easter break. So how are MIT students faring with this

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  to Midsummer Commons along with a sea of people. I was worried that I ... going! The streets were so packed with people that cars and bikes had a

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  some very deep background on legendary and notorious hacks, with passion ... with irony, wit, and meaning that ultimately "do no harm". He also

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  with nothing to write about, but then Sam wrote me an angry email ... my friends made up. It's also apparently a term having to do with ... and as such I was stuck next to a man with the least accurate sense of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  my picture taken with Matt at 9:55. Then it was off to the Stata center ... for us! After exploring we had our picture taken with the beaver exhibit ... , believe it or not! I'll skip the stories with this one and share some

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  , and I'm going to spend it having a blast with the people I love in a ... snow if you're in Boston and just dealt with the most schizophrenic week

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  application numbers for the past five years, starting with last year and working ... with Mersenne primes or perfect numbers (no, we did not receive 33

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  winter around here. I'm done with yet another MIT Wednesday, consisting of ... , with two exams last Wednesday, a paper due this past Monday, a French ... class), preparing for a little French presentation with a classmate in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  cautious about the learning process and tends to be obsessed with issues such ... with little effort. Performing well in the classroom and getting good ... -forward a bit and we see Mills walking the Infinite with the rest of his peers

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  , time with family, etc. It (sadly) isn't all that infrequent that I hear a ... one who is concerned. I can tell you from conversations with my ... loaded to the brim with Advanced Placement courses—with no regard to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  Boston suburb used for conferences. It was amazing to hang out with my ... . Sororities at MIT are quite large, with about 80-100 members, so it is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The ... busy with activities, mingling, or eating. There's even a circus school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006