In Their Own Words (Part 3)

In Their Own Words (Part 3) The dramatic conclusion to my three-part series of entries about the fun things MIT students during their summer off. Kendra Beckler (Courses 6-3 and 21M, of Random Hall): We all know that MIT is the best there is for science and engineering, but many of the humanities professors are top of their fields and do research as well. This summer, I have one of those rare UROPs in the humanities. I am helping design a new freshman experience class (21M.013J/21A.113J) which I hope that some of you will take someday. In addition, I am coding the website and software support systems for the class from scratch. Coming soon, the website will be at http://supernatural.mit.edu/ (as soon as I finish setting up the server). In my spare time, I work front desk at Random Hall and am a Summer RA there (basically, Residential Life funds cool events I want to run for the dorm, Im on call in case of emergency, and I get free housing). I also helped run the Assassins Guild Guildcamp (Paul has to report to me on the progress hes making on his game, heh heh), and I am active in MITSFS and the Laboratory for Chocolate Science. Alvin Chen 11 (Course 20, of Simmons): This summer, Im participating in a new ThaiROP program created by Ellen John Essigmann, housemasters of Simmons Hall. For ten weeks, Ill be doing biological research at the Chulabhorn Research Institute in Bangkok, Thailand, in the Department of Pharmacology, led by Ajarn Jutamaad Satayavivad. (Ajarn is the Thai equivalent of Professor in the US.) My lab advisor is Dr. Piyajit Watcharasit, and her research deals primarily with Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 (GSK-3) and its regulatory effects on apoptosis. This summer, Im hoping to contribute to the labs knowledge of the mechanism by which GSK-3 promotes chemically induced apoptosis. I spent the first two weeks in lab learning new techniques, such as western blotting and XTT cell viability assays. The people in my lab have been extremely helpful in guiding me through different protocols and getting me familiar with the lab. Its been a rather interesting and refreshing experience working in a lab outside of the US. While I havent worked in a lab at MIT, I can assure you that its a different atmosphere and culture. Logistically speaking, Ive been working for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, usually from 9am-5pm. After work and on weekends, I, along with the rest of MIT ThaiROP students go out and explore the city and beyond. Some places we have visited on weekends include Ayutthaya (former capital of Thailand), Jatuchak Weekend Market (lots of very inexpensive stuff here), the Temple of Dawn, and the Grand Palace. Weve also attended special events such as the Kings sisters funeral and a ceremony in celebration of the Princesss birthday. For the next two weekends, we have trips to the Khao Yai National Park and Pattaya Beach planned. So thats my summer in a nutshell. Slow internet aside, Thailand rocks! Its really been a wonderful experience so far, and I would definitely do it again if given the opportunity. Cody Daniel 11 (Courses 22 and 8B, of Senior Haus): Course 22 Nuclear Science and Engineering is split into this dichotomy in which you have the power to either save the world or destroy it. While I havent made up my mind yet on this choice, Im spending my summer trying to help save the worldto some extent. This summer summer, Im working with Prof. Richard Lanza and several other MIT researchers/professors as well as the defense contractor Raytheon on the Nanotron project. The Nanotron is like a cyclotron, only really small. Nano-sized, in fact, at least, in terms of cyclotron. The final machine is about a meter in diameter and a little over a meter tall, but produces a 5 MeV beam. This possible through the use of superconducting magnets, which allow the field density to be high enough to create such a compact accelerator. This accelerator is to be used to detect fissile material, in hopes of deterring any nuclear weapons proliferation by easily locating fissile material used to make nuclear weapons. My part in this is to design the target, which produces the final beam. Its a very open-ended engineering challenge, where the main concerns are dissipating the heat of the beam and making sure the target material doesnt disintegrate from the beam intensity. Ive basically been given a model of the accelerator and the software to model the target with, and was told to come up with a design. That the designers of this project trust me to such an extent is very intense, but that Im actually able to do such an engineering project makes me realize just how much Ive learned in one year here and what my capabilities will be when I graduate from here. In the end, a very fulfilling summer, both in terms of meaningful work and a fulfilling learning experience. Javier Duarte 10 (Courses 8 and 18, of Phi Sig, formerly of Senior Haus): This summer, Im doing a UROP under the supervision of Prof. Janet Conrad, at Fermilab near Chicago (travel and housing provided by Fermilab). I am researching the characteristics of an extremely rare QCD (Quantum Chromodynamics the study of how quarks and gluons interact via the strong force) interaction called anomaly-produced photons within a newly proposed neutrino experiment at Fermilab, NuSOnG (NeUtrinos Scattering On Glass). Essentially, the interaction has a very common signature so it may be a very significant background to current and future experiments. For this reason, studying the event rate and other properties of this interaction is critical to reducing uncertainty in new measurements. Once the research is complete, I will co-author on a paper describing the range of QCD measurements that are possible with NuSOnG. Jeremy James 09 (Course 2, of Skullhouse): Im working at ARES Corporation with a few Skullhouse alums. ARES corporation is a engineering and technology consulting company that provides outside companies with a variety of services ranging from consulting advice, to risk analysis, to actually designing products and software that they require. We do a lot of work for government companies such as NASA and the Department of Defense, but we also work for non-government companies such as Boeing. We have several offices around the country and I am interning for the one in Arlington, VA. As an intern, my tasks vary, but so far Ive worked on building databases of old information, researching relevant material for future proposals, and assisting in building presentations or software that will be presented to clients. Stanislav Nikolov 11 (Course 18, of Putz in East Campus): I have a story that is a good example of the fact that MIT gives you a ridiculous amount of opportunities, all the time. In fact, sometimes its hard not to stumble on opportunities. This summer Im working in a lab at Columbia playing around with mathematical models of signal detection in the brain (the signal being some sort of external stimulus, like a flash of light, corrupted with internal noise as it gets processed in your brain). Its pretty interesting and involves statistical decision theory, signal processing, and other cool mathy stuff. Im hoping to take the project Im currently working on in some new direction and ultimately get first authorship on a publication. The cool part is that I got the position without really looking for it. I was actually looking up stuff for my philosophy class (minds and machines) I wanted to do a presentation on how consciousness relates to theory of computation. So I googled consciousness and computation. One of the first links was a lab at Columbia exactly by that name, that was involved in mathematical and computational cognitive science. It looked like really cool stuff, so I emailed the PI (Principal Investigator) of the lab, told him Im a freshman at MIT interested in doing computational science and a couple of emails later, I had a summer research position. The ease with which it happened was really startling, when I thought about it later. I basically said Im a guy that can do stuff, let me work with you, and they said sure! And it probably didnt hurt that I go to MIT. Now I really feel like I can email any prof, at MIT or elsewhere, and say I want to work on such and such interesting and challenging project. At the very least, theyll point you in the right direction and advise you, and in the best case, you could get a UROP, publish papers, make your own discoveries, etc. I actually went and talked to the computational cognitive science people at MIT and I could have a UROP there in the fall if I wanted to. The problem at MIT is not whether opportunities are available, its which one of these crazy awesome things do I want to do? Sally Peach 09 (Course 7, of WILG): ZOMG I LOVE BRAGGING!!!! Not really, but I like my summer, so its worth sharing. I hope youll edit this? Please edit this [Pauls Note: What follows is completely unedited. Oops? :D] Now- June 24th: Gastonia, NC: Thats right, for the first time since August 20th, 2005, Im spending an extended amount of time in my hometown. A combination of chillaxing, reading, prepping for MEET (more on that in a second), and selling Moms stuff on eBay. Not to mention: going to the beach, swimming in Lake Wylie, visiting Atlanta, Charleston, and Raleigh, and hiking Crowders Mountain way too much. June 24th July 4th: Cambridge/Boston: Back in Cambridge, doing absolutely nothing. July 5th: Zurich. A 12 hour layover means Im totally opening a Swiss bank account. (Not really). July 6th August 21st: MEET, aka Middle Eastern Education through Technology. MEET brings Israelis and Palestinian high school students together to work toward a common goal. MEET is a three-year program, but the students begin by learning Java as part of an intense five-week summer program on the campus of Hebrew University that also includes business training and bonding experiences. Forty rising sophomores half Israeli and half Palestinian unite to suffer through lectures, recitations, and labs, ultimately learning about programming and about the other side. I am one of the instructors for this Year One experience. Despite being a Biology major and a girl (Im very much in the minority, only two other girls are on the trip!), I was interviewed and selected to participate even though I didnt know Java! I learned my first programming language in the Fall by taking 6.00 (aka Python, the best programming language ever). Ive worked hard this semester and have taught myself Java, and t hrough weekly meetings with other Year One instructors, have helped to prepare a curriculum for the summer. I have no idea what to expect, but have been told by many past instructors that it was the best summer of their lives! (Did I mention that the trip is entirely free, plus we get a stipend?) Middle East, here I come! You can check out a blog of my adventures too I cant wait to start telling you all about the land of far far away. August 21st August 27th: MEET ends on the 21st, but Im hanging around to do some good old fashioned tourism. Ive always wanted to go to Egypt, and since its RIGHT FREAKING THERE, hopefully this will happen. August 27th: Back to MIT. Yay? Colin McSwiggen 11 (Course 18, of First East in East Campus): This summer is going to rawk. Im going to be doing some volunteer work with the International Society for Ecology and Culture, in Ladakh, India (up in the Himalayas). Ill be there for a month, working to fight the damage that increased Westernization has done to the regions environment and culture, while staying with a native family and working on their yak farm. However, since Ill be going all the way to India anyway, I thought I might as well make it a grand adventure, so Im going to go through Rome and London on the way there, and through Beijing (where Ill catch a bit of the Olympics), Shanghai, Nagoya and Tokyo on the way back, staying with friends or friends of friends or just bumming around the whole way. If all goes well (i.e. I dont get kidnapped by Kashmiri bandits), by the end of August Ill have circled the world in 78 days. Then Ill have about 36 hours to pack up and fly back to MIT! Cathy Melnikow 10 (Course 15, of Burton 1): Im doing a 4-week ROTC training camp at Fort Knox Kentucky this summerit should be fun. It is done through the MIT ROTC program, and will basically catch you up on the first 2 years of ROTC so that you are able (if you choose to do ROTC) to join in the fall with your classmates. Its basically boot camp and leadership training, plus I get to shoot a real gun and go bouldering. As for whether I do ROTC, this camp will definitely help me make a decision. Then Im gonna come back to MIT to work in a restaurant somewhere around Boston and train for volleyball. Catherine Redfield 11 (Course 16, of Burton-Conner): Im producing a show, Into the Woods, with the Musical Theater Guild. It goes up the last weekend of August, and first two of September. Sopeople should come see it. (Yes, I am shamelessly using you as an advertising service; if you mind, just ignore me. [Pauls Note: I dont mind. :D]) Im also UROPing (I do need to pay for housing), but thats less interesting. Michael Stunes 11 (Course 6, of Simmons): Im doing a UROP at CSAIL (specifically with the Decentralized Information Group) entitled Addressing Privacy Leakage from Search Engine Logs. Jason Whittaker 09 (Course 10, of Skullhouse): ExxonMobils Automation and Optimization Division down in Fairfax, Virginia. In a refinery, you have a whole host of instruments that measure process variables with time. Their job is to keep those variables close to what you set them to be by opening an associated valve, much like a thermostat in your house. The only difference in the refinery case is that there are hundreds of variables, and the actions of one affect many others downstream. So you need to control the whole system together, at a higher level then that of a home thermostat. Computers need to real-time optimize the system and ensure stability to get the most out of every barrel of oil. Everybody benefits from efficient refining: more energy, less impact on environment, more savings to the consumer. I work for the department that does that higher level control and optimization process, called Advanced Controls. If I told you more than that, Id have to kill you.

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