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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…

  

  loaded, can be used to immediately patch vulnerabilities or introduce new ... cool system that I think some of you might like. Ksplice is system for ... , Jeff has in the past used Ksplice to keep this server up, which many

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

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

  

  part of MIT folklore, hacks can tell much about MIT's culture and ... of the interdisciplinary nature of MIT. In 2005 MIT Professor Emeritus Samuel Jay Keyser gave a talk on the history of hacks. In Where the Sun

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  been sitting in my drafts box since. However, I still believe, fervently ... maybe we can benefit from focusing on that instead. 03/14/2015 So I ... us a happy pi day, and I realized that today was the day, and in t

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  . on Friday, I finished a pset, got lunch with a friend in Somerville ... , I was receiving an award for the first time, and in what felt like a blink of an eye, I was in charge of making them? something about that felt

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  Scandinavian furniture from your favorite importer... (I got a new bookshelf! I ... your days don't end with grass stains on your knees. I'd like to suggest ... and Hobbes? Hmph. Guess I'll just have to reference the comic strip

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  Logs." I love hilariously ridiculous spoof movies in which you can see ... point out how all of it is the same. Finally (I'm really not going to go ... is not a rule - there are always exceptions, but in general, I think

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  from other majors who come and take the class. I know people in courses 2 ... are others. It is basically an introduction to programming in Java. I ... quite right. I’m not sure I will use Java in my future, but I suppose it

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  nine entries, A-J (minus I because it's ~imaginary~), in a highrise stack ... Cheese During in-house rush, I was told that the G unofficially stood for ... through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  scrutinize....I can go on and on. The most enjoyable thing about HASS then, in ... that I can either concentrate in Economics (have to take another class in ... answer." In some regards, I was considering a LAC when I applied to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  be meetings in dozens of locales, including New York City, Dallas, San ... have checked in to introduce themselves. Since only admitted students can ... form, give us as much specific information as you can; this will help us

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  "You're good to submit!". I was kind of doubtful seeing as how quickly I ... edits in October, the moment had finally come. I was done. But now was a ... colleges. You are not losing yourself in these applications. I'll conclude

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  ", or as I like to call it, "How To Write Good Code That Won't Kill People ... "Communication Systems and Networks", or as I like to call it, "How the Internet ... something that helps other people, you can't just tinker in your dorm room

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  events!!!! But first I want to give you the scoop about how gay things are ... super cool events, but I’m not involved because I’m not affiliated in any ... are not all of them, but the ones I am involved in/plan on attending

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  , I was comfortable with all of these tools, thanks in large part to the ... and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of ... top hill (in hindsight, I wish they had made flag pulling worth more

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  In case you haven't noticed, I'm blogging less frequently now. There ... kitchen. In turn, freshmen bloggers, I need your help. Please blog uberloads so that I can take time doing the second reason I don't blog as much

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  night was a luxury. The single class that I took in January, which was ... that my score is lower. Edward persists in disagreeing. We make a bet. I ... say that I have a plan to make sure that I will be Perfectly Fine in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  really cool and there is a special place in my heart for CubeSats because I ... -and-coming celebrities; for example, today I met Planet Labs, a start-up in San Francisco ... keep firmly in mind as I go through my four years (+grad school, possibly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  'm respectfully crufting in the background. But every August - when I start hearing ... the first snow. I remember people explaining how frostbite works. I ... remember feeling like a failure a lot. I remember being in a state of shock

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  may have casually come up in the times that I’ve written here that I am ... you can be the best you can be during your time here. In the end, it ... mistakes and everything was easy, how would we learn? Anyway, I spent A LOT

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  the most fun I've had in literal weeks. I'm so grateful that I've had ... !!!! I love talking to everyone and sharing in their enthusiasm so! much ... 've always been "the young one" in most environments I've been; I took a lot of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020