4 hours

I took my only final of the semester this morning.  I spent all day yesterday preparing a final exam for the class I TA so I wasn’t able to start studying until around 10 pm last night. I studied until 2 am and then went to bed until 6 am.  My final went well and [...]

A little glimpse at what I do

Here is a youtube video I found today that was filmed in my lab a few years ago. Anybody who wants to know what it is I do will probably find it interesting.

President Obama’s visit to MIT.

I haven’t posted in several weeks so here is a quick snippet to prove to you I’m still alive and capable of running a blog. Expect more posts soon! President Obama came to MIT today. He toured some “clean energy labs” and addressed the MIT community. He started his address by thanking people and then [...]

More leprosy please!

These billboards are popping up all over Cambridge and sparking a bit of controversy.   I’m not very familiar with the biology of leprosy but for some reason I want to say that simple hygiene is sufficient to prevent the disease and that modern medicines are not required to treat it (I could totally be wrong [...]

Let me qualify that…

It seems like months ago that I was taking my qualifying exams. I spent months preparing for them and walked out of the test  feeling quite confident that I passed. A few days ago I got an emailing saying that I had passed and that I could come by and look at how the individual [...]

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