User:Lissa1

Lissa (Elizabeth) Riley

I am a rising junior working in the Endy Lab on post-translational logic, with Samantha Sutton. You can see my project page here:

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Classes, Spring 2006

BE.109, BE.320, BE.180, 7.05, 21M.301 (Harmony and Counterpoint), 21M.421 (MITSO), and UTF for Terrascope

Clubs/Activities

MITSO (Symphony Orchestra), MIT Summer Philharmonic Orchestra, Terrascope, Greenhouse, pika, pika Ultimate Frisbee, Recyclemaniacs, Endy Lab UROP

Interests

I am interested in: violin, chamber and orchestral music (and composing), kung fu, biochemistry, electrical engineering, oceans + ocean life (especially diatoms, corals, and bioluminescence), drawing, topology, vegetarianism, Chinese art and language, the poetry of Rumi, Spanish and Portuguese, climbing trees and rocks, Tibet, cancer and cancer treatment, drawing, fireflies, Brazil, stargazing, attempting to learn meditation, frisbee, swimming, computer games (civII among others), theoretical physics (especially string theory), growing plants (especially jungle plants), philosophy, reading ( especially these things, sustainability, paradox

Sillyness

I can: make an acorn whistle, play violin, do kung fu, fold paper cranes

I can't: do more than 2 consecutive overhand chinups (yet!), make fudge that turns out right, start a fire with only a stick, engineer trees that grow treehouses, program in C++, do a wheelie

I like: science , engineering, the Chinese class I had last year, drawing, Bach, watching the Olympics, swirly patterns in cut beets, snow, sandcastles, speaking Spanish, ginger, visiting countries very different from America, the smell of subway trains, the Mandelbrot set, Guns 'N Roses, Beethoven Symphony 7 mvmt 2, farmers markets

I dislike: mushrooms, misplaced certainty, wet socks, cilantro