Liana Lareau

MIT. Focus of my life, these days, though there are a few forces dragging me into the daylight occasionally. I'm a major in mathematics and biology. They may seem unrelated, but I've found some fascinating areas of overlap. Currently I'm working in Tom Knight's lab in the AI Lab, helping their attempts to create microbial circuits. Digital logic meets E. coli. I've got a lot of other academic interests which somehow got lost in the last three years. Maybe when I graduate I'll have time to think again.

I've gotten more involved than I expected with MIT affairs, partly as a result of the housing decisions made recently. My friends and I started ILTFP (I Love This F*%#ing Place) as a student advocacy group, or a bunch of flaming radicals, depending on whom you ask. I've also been sucked into the Undergraduate Association, a group which I despised a year ago, but which I'd like to think is headed in the right direction. I'm co-chair of the Committee on Student Life; if you have concerns or ideas, or want to get involved, please talk to me.

Life is not all work, and from my point of view, this is a wonderful place to not work. I live in Random Hall, one of the world's greatest dorms, in my unbiased opinion. I can also be found in the SIPB office sometimes, playing with Athena. Most of my free time is spent playing the fife with the Middlesex County Volunteers, an 18th-century musical group. I also like to play with tools, and climb things, and laugh at "those crazy MIT kids" when they put things on the Dome.

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