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Hi! I'm Evan Broder, from Nashville, Tennessee. I'm a member of the MIT Class of 2010, which makes me a rising sophomore.

I'm majoring in Course VI, which means Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and more specifically, 6-2, which means Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (as opposed to just one or the other). I've spent the past 15 years or so messing with computers in my spare time, and the last one learning how to do electronics stuff. Now I spend a lot of time designing circuits, such as making glass shelves change colors with RGB LEDs or turning a Guitar Hero controller into a wireless Guitar Hero controller.

During the school year, I live on Conner 4, one of the floors in Burton-Conner. You might have noticed that Burton-Conner is a popular choice for bloggers, and in fact Ben made me force Mitra and Sam to graduate before he would hire me.

I play more Guitar Hero than is healthy, I force Firefly on people I meet who have never seen it, and I firmly believe that Mac OS X is the best operating system out there. And I like answering questions because it means I don't have to come up with content of my own.

RSS feed for my blog

Live Kernel Patching System
April 23, 2008 | An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates without rebooting your system.
Posted in Life After MIT (Careers & Grad School) | 9 Responses The Zone Cell Challenge
March 17, 2008 | Why work when you can hack other people's servers?
Posted in Student Organizations | 9 Responses The Impossible Design Project
February 27, 2008 | See what it's like to be a Course VI student.
Posted in Coursework | 18 Responses
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