I spent today playing with yeast cells, and I couldn't be happier.
Let me back up. As you may already know, this summer, I'm working with Professor Angelika Amon of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the Institute was quite literally like no other place on Earth. All I did was listen to an admissions presentation, take a campus tour, visit a lab, and
Amnesty International's MIT Chapter, as a part of their lecture series, hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT Professor of Linguistics, to talk on the issue of social action within academic institutions. The title of