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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…

  

  developed this as his master's thesis, and today released the system to the ... currently running kernel source and the configuration settings, combined with ... 's what Ted says in ZDNet's article: Top kernel developer and Linux

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

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  with a lot of senioritis (yes, there is a wikipedia article on it) and I ... friend’s at (and soon to be at) MIT who I already miss. Since this ... vector, time is a scalar, so I caught the shuttle and arrived on campus

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 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 ... people pictured (I'll only publish first names), and any reactions to the ... based If you are an international student and 21 has not yet opened in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  differently over there. Namely, instead of 2 or 3 tests a term and then a final ... rooms are filled with piles of psets. AND, here’s what I think is ... -3 week period in the Easter term (there are 3 terms: Michaelmas, Lent, and

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  submitted both their Part 1 and their Part 2. Thank you for not ... 'd like it to. We're reading for content, and we're used to seeing the ... tracking system. We are opening a lot of mail right now, and it takes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  The 2007 Senior Ball was last Saturday night, and as a member of the ... November. The ball was titled "As Time Goes By" and the theme was Casablanca ... . The odds are good... Here are Cathie and Kavita, who focused on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  CPW hosts This past week, my colleagues and I spent many, many hours ... expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host ... the CPW Closing on Saturday was me and Samuel L. Jackson reciting lines

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  removed, and it doesn't imply anything about individual decisions. Now that ... and try not to stress - there's nothing left to do but wait, and if all goes well, you'll know in 2 weeks and 53 minutes. :-) [Edit: to respond

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then ... 's Edge") and the Killian Pyramids. See if you can spot what changed ... Waldo Hacks. Now imagine, you were in lecture: And you looked up

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  was nice, and the jacket in that material was also pretty hot. But Heidi KIum said she would buy every piece in Uli's collection, and some of them ... way. And I was going to write a blog entry saying basically, "Anybody

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  Well, I'm back from Atlantic City and have 3 million things to do in ... there, watch some kids and can't do all the cool stuff... Being a ... background of some of the pictures I posted) and the waterpark are jointly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Although three members of Queen routinely sang lead and ... Freddie Mercury, recorded on four separate tracks and mixed together. München! I went to München! Or Munich. But München is more fun to say, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  had to laugh out loud when the presenter hit the button and put the live ... half a squirrel (and not the pretty half, let me tell you). ~300 people ... stuff like this. Zack and RJ (both MIT '09) have completely transformed

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  determine how many students we could take at this time, and which students to ... 'll once again look at where we are, and determine whether we will use the ... offered a spot on the waitlist to just under 400 people, and most of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  with built in Dolby Digital) and watch the latest pay-per-view selection ... immediately began watching (and Tivoing) movies. What a treat! Here were all the movies that I love and some that I always swear to rent next time I'm at

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lip Sync & Toons Real singers and fake singers ...sort of like Jessica and Ashleey Simpson. (~17 pictures)

  

  divided the lecture hall in half and told us it was time for audience participation. My half made saxaphone noises, and the right half made some pretty ... the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and is majoring in Course

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  email and phone calls. On Monday, I finally returned a call I had been meaning to get to, and found out that Ben had just answered her question ... about class rank (her school is considering doing away with it), and I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  - 6 graduate and undergraduate students. She very much hopes that you ... , and then walk over together to the Forbes Cafe at Stata. I do hope that ... stand in long lines in the Stata Center, and have lunch with students give

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  So as a sanity break, I often take a break from work and such and ... that if I went to the laundromat one day and left my laundry there, the ... to an ASA activities midway and has scored a free shirt from WMBR

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... listening to The Wrens and eating a confetti cookie from Au Bon Pain. About 2 ... hang out and relax. I originally planned on driving back that night, but

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005