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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…

  

  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 ... from me. Take it from Ted Ts'o '90. Ted is an active kernel hacker who

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

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  scarce because of how hard it is to take, compress, crop, upload, and ... human Latke and human Hamentashen. Can you guess which is which??? Anyway, the debate is now beginning, more word soon. 8:11 pm Master of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  it. -Painting my new room an awesome purple, because painting is ... :30 twice a week (for 24.900 - Intro to Linguistics - which is at 9:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  Texas, by the border), designed this banner. She is considering studying ... , science, reading, and, yes, singing in the shower. Currently, she is trying ... , but she says it is not easy. Thanks for the great banner design, Zaira

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  in, we will review them, and the decision will be reviewed if there is ... longer than in others; there is no deadline for receiving the grades other than "as soon as you can." The bottom line is: Please send in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  year. What more can you ask for? Tonight is the [annotation note ... -the-scenes for the capstone projects themselves, and this blog is instead about the ... .] (janet would like to clarify that she did NOT say that and kayode is the

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... . Kahneman is a pioneer of behavioral economics and the psychology of decision making. He is one of my favorite social scientists, and his work laid the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  ;   This is a really good question, because it forced me to think and deeply consider why I found MIT so hard--and exactly what it is that causes ... cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  from the german word for "shape" or "form". the famous example is kanizsa ... course, there is no such triangle drawn. the background is of the same ... perceive a triangle. this is a gestalt effect. we can then imagine the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  MIT is a melting pot of all sorts of people from different races ... ’s easy to take for granted the haven that is created Under the Dome, where ... is debatable) together bounded by immense love for learning. In recent

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the ... . I am giving you a hall pass for this blog entry. This entry is for the ... it is you need a shoe horn to get their heads through the door) This

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  MIT is, at the very least, interesting when it comes to biology. You will find there are two groups of people. There is group A that despises ... ), they would never come anywhere near biology. Group B on the other hand is

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  applied. Without further ado, our new bloggers— Freshmen Joe B. ‘18 is from ... is planning to major in course 6 or course 18, in part to find out what ... more than the planet it lives on. Joe is also an extremely talented

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  Listen: writing well is hard. It is hard for a lot of different reasons. Sometimes it is hard because you don't know your audience and have to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only is the sun shining, the flowers are also blooming. Daffodils ... turned out to be apple blossom petals. Last week was Bumps week, which is

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  words or with common logic. Who is asking to read LaTeX and then going ... ] is just [annotation note="mechanical engineering"]Course 2[/annotation] This is mostly just out of ignorance, but isn't 16 just specialized 2

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  Structure. This is a choose your own adventure, where you play as me, running ... , then what use is there making choices? The answer is delayed branching ... . Each choice is of equal significance, and there are many possible endings

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  your mouth. From what I've gathered online, what happens is that the top ... is touched (which happens often, since it's in your mouth), it hurts ... cause is unknown. [caption id="attachment_78945" align="alignnone" width

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  . I will try my best to keep this short, as I'm sure this is a sensitive ... vulnerability and sharing that part of yourself. College admissions is a volatile ... senior year and I know how scary it is to package your identity up into

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... trying to take (but know I could never get into due to its popularity) is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015