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...News and World Report doesn’t rank lounges, but if they did, seventh-year chemistry grad student Timothy R. Dransfield thinks he knows who would be on top. “[The Harvard Department of Chemistry’s lounge] may very well be the best graduate student lounge in any chemistry department in the country,” Dransfield says. A large, colorful, metal-heavy room with with a pool table that students call “the center,” the new lounge in Mallinckrodt Laboratory is the product of a joint faculty-student project...
...single drawer or cabinet is in use. A huge wall that could be used for postering has only one sign on it, advertising an upcoming play at Dudley House. The Poland Spring jug is empty. The freezer has bags of ice and two lonely containers of sherbet. Hungry grad students would fare no better in a fridge raid. The massive fridge’s shelves contain nothing except two half-empty Sprite bottles and a huge bowl of coffee creamers ready to fill the coffee cups of stressed graduate students. “Some people might like...
...here is the computer cubicles—all three are occupied. These study cubes are a cut above the wooden chair and desk set that comes with an undergrad room. Fax machines, iMacs and sleek silver chairs exemplify the center’s melding of science, design and overworked grad students. Though the lounge may be dead on weekday afternoons, the place becomes popular around 5 or 6 p.m., reports first-year graduate student Michael Fuerstman, who is studying physical chemistry. Fuerstman says he hits the center at least once a day and thinks the lounge is an important hangout...
This is an MIT sports bar. If that sounds paradoxical, it is, but read on. Located in the basement of a graduate dorm, the Thirsty Ear draws a mixed crowd that ranges from grad students cooling down with some Sam after a nice workout to confused undergrads who think this is a fancy-dress type of bar and have dressed up for naught. A TV plays whatever games are showing, but almost no one pays attention. The drink is beer and beer alone, but variety is good and prices reasonable. (A pitcher of Sam Adams will set you back only...
...Grad students and post-docs can study some compounds,” Kirschner said, “but they can’t spend the time to do huge numbers of experiments...