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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…

  

  ’o. “Users in the carrier grade linux space have been clamoring for this for a ... This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really ... automatically patching a Linux kernel without reboots. Jeff Arnold '07, MEng '08

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  Saturday afternoon, my friend Nicole '07 (Course 8: Physics) and I spent a ... Saturday afternoon, but it was perfect for a warm cup of almond-coconut hot ... STOP: Pearl Art. I needed to pick up some stuff for a Valentine's Day

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  the #1 ranked scrabble player in all of Massachusetts, is a sophomore at ... the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for ... waited for the bleeding to subside. Props also to the Medlinks program at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  ideas ball the next day (a party that 1E throws every IAP for Bad Ideas ... , going for a Guinness world record for largest/most pies (way too big/logistically difficult), and finally, this. Kristen did a bunch of thermo (0:07), and I

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  understanding of the language. For example if somebody at the bank says "blah blah ... that you don't have to do anything for the next five minutes. So I ... DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of "standing cafes" in Germany was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  stuff, Ruth ‘07 spent a week in New Orleans, so we, her floormates ... was really excited about the balloons. But maybe she had a rough week ... , free-for-all balloon-popping extravaganza. They popped all the balloons

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  until the middle of the night--it makes me nostalgic for my own Freshman ... circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what ... However, the good news is that it should be a fairly eventful weekend; MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  finals. Ruth '07, Mitra '07 and I '07 tried to make that a little more ... breakfast for the rest of the floor on the first day of finals. Since we can ... ever seen at MIT. But after that? I'm at the start of a pretty big

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Citius, Altius, Mens et Manus In the words of a great woman, "Yay, a hack!"

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The United States won 9 gold medals in the most recent Winter Olympics in Torino. ..and many thanks to Joe '06 for showing up with this photograph at 6:30 in the AM. Bigger? Even bigger

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  poultry, so I took the hamburger and my receipt back up and asked for a ... food establishment? Is there a logical reason for this throw-out-the ... This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  ... let's do it the harder way." Still, it wasn't a day to remember. I didn ... avoiding ATMs almost intentionally for the past few days, so the most I ... her if I could borrow a dollar or two to pay for my burrito. ...and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  , and Sam is awesomely posting this for me. My group has been here for just under a day, and we are staying in a guesthouse near the capital for ... butter), and go to the market to buy fabric for skirts/sarongs. I have not

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The return of photos to my blog!

  

  nearly a month ago. We had the retreat in Cody, New Hampshire. It was very pretty, but it literally did not stop raining the entire time. Alex '07 ... , a resident of 4th East and a Senator from East Campus, and I think the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  5.112, the intro chemistry for masochists class that I took as a first ... well or struggle. The last time I was in a really polarizing class (18 ... study with. I've had some interest in genetics since I was a kid. The one

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  a cross between Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Jeopardy!--the ... , this. Ruth '07, field reporter for http://sam.mitblogs.com, discovered this curious flyer outside of the Athena cluster in building 24 (aka "a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San ... secured into a harness. First, grab the [9 pound] bar with your right hand ... land for long before we began risking our lives yet again. The leaning

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  On Broadway My first few days of fun in NYC

  

  for the student rush tickets -- thanks, guys! I have weakly ... for the Straight Guy performed in the show... and since I was seated in row A, I really saw him. The past two nights, I've been working

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  thought there’d be more. So one of my jobs is being a tour guide for the ... things. If you turn on captions for the video, and choose English (United ... , not 6B. 29:07 The tallest building among completed buildings in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ides of March Among other things, I now have the power to kill Macbeth.

  

  Day celebrations, but I'd like you to join me in celebrating the birth of the woman from whose womb I was untimely ripped a mere twenty years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  was at the MISTI Gala Dinner for all interns going to foreign countries ... 'll already be in Germany. The German Requiem is a really amazing piece of ... " when the entire choir of around two hundred people intones in a unison

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006