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Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 12:49:44 -0400 ( Read more... )

In another day or so, I will be completely done with my obligations for my undergrad degree at MIT. Wow.

But for now, back to working on 6.UAP, my undergraduate thesis...

I'll make this one of those keep-track-of-the-giant-pile-of-work posts that my friends seem to be so fond of. But this time, when I finish, I graduate!

- STS.001 book report
- STS.001 final essay revision
- 6.UAP final report
- 6.824 lab 8
- 6.824 final
- 21M.735 tech notesI'll return and cross things off as I finish them ( Read more... )

This weekend I took my first real big stab at finding an apartment for next year. There seems to be amazing deviation in the costs of apartments in Cambridge/Somerville. I've found good-looking apartments all the way from $1395 for a two-person studio apartment to $2950 for a two bedroom apartment, both within a mile of MIT. It looks like I'm ( Read more... )

I just finished doing my taxes today. Thanks to doing a UROP this past summer, rather than a job at a company, I owed... exactly zero. That's right - I'm getting back ALL of my withholdings. You should not read from this "I should get a UROP to avoid paying taxes". You should instead read "Wow, UROP pay sucks ( Read more... )

This term, one of the classes I'm taking is 6.857, Computer and Network Security. This week's problem set? Crack an encryption algorithm. No, really. They describe an encryption algorithm and tell you to crack it ( Read more... )

Safari has broken support for certificate authentication. I posted this blog entry on scripts's blog to document our workaround.

(cross-posted from http://scripts.mit.edu/news/125/certificate-authentication-in-safari)

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Every blogger at MIT gets one freebie post each term - the "these are the classes I am taking" post. Here's mine ( Read more... )

On Thursday, we competed in the 6.270 final competition. Unfortunately, partly due to our own slowness and partly due to the lack of finished contest software on the part of the organizers, we didn't really get a chance to test our robot, and it showed. Both times we competed in the final rounds, we lost due to stupid failures. The first time, one ( Read more... )