Word: labs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were a nematode in Siegfried Hekimi's genetics lab, you would be one of the most remarkable creatures in the world. It wouldn't be your looks that made you special, of course. As a tiny transparent worm measuring a millimeter from tip to tail, you would be nearly invisible to the naked eye. Nor would it be the way you spent your time. Moving little and eating less, you would pass all your days inside a Petri dish, resting atop a bed of nutrient...
...gave a lecture that I have needed to hear for a while. It is the story--and I urge you to take Gen Ed 105 so you can hear this for yourself--about the time Coles, a grad student at Harvard, spends a week mixing a particular chemical in lab, only to mistakenly pour it down the drain at the very end. His instructor stood there watching and laughing, and didn't stop him. Coles cursed, dropped the flask, and walked...
...this probably seems to be common sense. I am sure these are lessons that many of you learned long before you were seniors. But this time of year, my epiphany might serve to help you get through that tedious lab or that long final paper. So before you drop that flask and curse your TF, remember that we are here for the process, not for the product. The rest will take care of itself...
...know that when you're in the computer lab, you look over and see other people doing very non-pine things from their accounts. It's time to stop cowering before the pine gods, and get on with your life as a card-carrying netizen...
Already, the attics of Pierce and Cruft have been converted to offices, and lab and classroom space in these buildings are often inadequate. Twenty million dollars of the donation will go to fund a new computer science/engineering building. Named Maxwell Dworkin after the donators' mothers, this new building will cost a total of $26 million and will be about 80,000 square feet. It is tentatively scheduled to replace the present Aiken building...