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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be ... suppose that's understandable. I have an aversion to expired dairy. In fact ... of free speech to airline companies. I'd go back in a femtoheartbeat

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  , Jeff has in the past used Ksplice to keep this server up, which many ... developed this as his master's thesis, and today released the system to the ... a patch to the source code, to generate a kernel module which, when

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

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  . Every major road seems to be jammed. My friend said that in the 20 minutes ... , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... , he said that “it’s always warm in the library.” He was right! Even

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  , visited MIT last Friday to receive the 2010 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts (i.e. $75,000 cash prize and on-campus residency). In addition, he conducted the MIT Symphony Orchestra in an open rehearsal and the following

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  fair chunk of the grade to participating in various forms – whether it ... college groups (because no one on my team is in an acapella group). To help ... Facebook (in which case, I have to forcefully pluck my eyes off cute cat

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  scotch tape and then used it to secure the drive in place. So far it's been ... the kickoff was about to take place. I walked in the door, and the very ... he was, hanging out in Lobby 7, waiting for the hunt to begin! He said

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  to trigger vomiting. but i haven't had a cold in years, let alone one ... , i wasn't going to go to mit medical. also, despite living in east ... endless eight, and haruhi suzumiya in general, i will leave it to others

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  . Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding ... ideology where religion was being equated to terror, but many of us in ... an ingenious way to get himself, and often times his friends, in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  taste of alcohol. Is this safe??: 0/10 Probably not -- in addition to the ... ethanol sometimes has a small amount of methanol mixed in specifically to ... with “Try not to drink the media.” This really just implies that cell

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  bottle to mix them in. And then...BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" He whisks his hand around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl ... cluster in the dome, waiting for their turn to climb up the wooden steps and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  friends in Course 3 have been able to answer. In the movie "Fantastic Four ... 4000 K is hot enough to melt every element in the periodic table. Of ... According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  10 minutes ago I actually heard myself say "I really need to eat and I also really need to do 2.005 but I only have time to do one, which should I do?"* *Why do I need to do 2.005? Kinda need to try to bring up

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  to find a souvenir store in the faraway lands of Putz, but I will send ... irradiate my food for >2 minutes (only to get lukecold results) in our more ... in comparison to Tetazoo. I quickly abandoned this thought when I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting ... , and the ability to bring the plants outside in the summer, the others ... instantly killed any green babies my friends had the misjudgment to leave in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  for my photography seminar. I have 24/7 access to the darkroom in the ... Javascript to do neat 2-D animations in web browsers. Now, I'll preface this ... Hello World! I haven't posted in a while - life has been busy

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  silent, he cued Elder McKinley, who asked us to join the cast in a ... On New Year's Eve, my family went out to see Book of Mormon. When ... integrity, I was glancing over at the guy sitting next to my sister, who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... . And if you make it in here, you did too. And, if you are ready to work ... childhood interests. I never thought that by going to college here I would be

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  ) had to say about it: I've had to get used to people saying in disbelief ... to Mollie: In the interest of full disclosure, though, I should note ... Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  playing ever since. I didn’t always know I wanted to play in college, but ... ’s been truly so fun to watch all of the pieces come together in our games. We are currently 6-1 in conference play and getting ready to begin the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  to for a while in an online AIM chatroom for accepted students, and I ... ’s Taqueria at 8:00 that night, and in the beginning it seemed to be going well ... four staples later I was in a taxi (my first!) on my way back to the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008