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July 30th, 2006 by Lawrence David

howdy! my name is lawrence david and i’m like a babe magnet, but for pigeon poop instead.

i’ve got no idea what to do with my life (how cliched!). i’m currently forestalling any real decisions by pursuing a phd in computational and systems biology at mit. my research deals with untangling the royal mess evolution has wrought upon the earth. eric alm has been kind enough to let me work in his lab; we’re going to explain where the very first babies came from.

christina is my girlfriend. she thinks i’m special.

stephanie is my sister. she is special.

rather than blather on anymore, i’ll finish describing myself using two insightful lists:

things i like: tennis, photography, the outdoors, python, and the decemberists.

things i don’t like: hitting recursion limits and the fact that i now like california.

if you’re the kind of person who gives out jobs, i’ve got one of those resume things too.  be careful though; it’s usually out of date. [and if you’re interested, here’s how to make a resume in latex.]

if you’ve read this far, say hi! shoot me an e-mail on over to Ldavid AT mit DOT edu. or at least leave some droppings in the comments box below.

 

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17 Responses to “About”

  1. on 04 Nov 2006 at 9:01 pm   Tom Timberlake

    Hi Lawrence,

    Please take good care of my daughter, Sonia, and make her wear a helmet when she rides her new bike or when she’s rock climbing.

    Thanks!

    –her Dad

  2. on 13 Jan 2007 at 5:25 pm   Stephanie (not ur sis, but ur cuz)

    Dude,

    California rules ;) … and rumor has it EVERYONE thinks your “special” (hahah)!

    See you in Feb,
    -SA

  3. on 13 Mar 2007 at 8:46 pm   Jason Comparetto

    Hey Lawrence,

    What’s up? Biomed engineer, eh? I ended up going Pre-Med at Penn State. Now I run a small motion-picture production company in Philadelphia Go Figure. One of us will need to find the cure for mankind–I’m glad you stuck with it!

  4. on 07 Aug 2007 at 11:00 am   nicholas

    Hello Just read your blog and it is fantastic, hope all goes well and you work out what you want to do!!! Thanks for all the useful info as well

    Cheers

    Nicholas

    UK

  5. on 01 Oct 2007 at 2:46 pm   Eric Brunson

    I love your navigation menu at the top. What a great idea, I wish I was so clever. :-)

  6. on 20 Dec 2007 at 5:45 pm   lowell gould

    Hey Lawrence,

    Cool site. I really like the navigation header. Thanks for all your great tricks. As a quantitative geneticist, I can really relate to your efforts in computational and systems biology. Take care good luck.

    lowell

  7. on 29 Jan 2008 at 11:51 am   Kailash

    Hey Dude, came across ur website while I was browsing the net. The navigation menu is awesome, gr8 idea. Keep up the good work.

    Cheers,
    Kailash

  8. on 09 Feb 2008 at 10:28 am   HK

    Hi Lawrence!,

    i am a phd student in boston and after searching a ton of resumes, i found only yours useful! thanks a ton, i am going to use it.

    -best,
    harish.

  9. on 04 May 2008 at 1:06 am   Richard

    Lawrence, I was captivated by your website and blog, especially about the symbiosis that forms bioluminescence in that adorable sea creature. I hope you don’t eat any of them, please. They are just too precious. The basis for all this stuff, of course, is quantum. How the whole is made of wholes. It is the nature of all things. Nature is self-referential and fractal. Everything emerges from nothing. The whole is made of entangled correlates, opposites in this case. Please keep searching for your bliss and try not to worry about tax brackets. Peace. - Richard (Lawrence is my middle name, the second of three first names)

  10. on 12 May 2008 at 11:16 pm   Griff

    website hacks man. how did you customize your iweb so much for your groups site. I’m going to do it for my astrophysics group but am kinda new to web development in general. I have iweb but yours looks way better than anything like the templates.

  11. on 27 May 2008 at 8:35 am   Dave

    Lawrence,

    I found your blog searching for wordpress tips. Your top nav is just beautiful. Have you written anything about how to do it? I’m also aspiring to integrate my gallery2 into my site as nicely as you have.

    I looked thru your tricks and didn’t find anything about how you accomplished these nice programming steps - did I miss something? If not, please share!

  12. on 05 Jun 2008 at 4:46 pm   Kate Harris

    Hey Lawrence,

    I was checking out Eric Alm’s website and stumbled upon your site - I met you as a prospective student visiting MIT back in April. I’m happy to say that MIT won me over completely - I’ll be heading there this fall for the geobiology program through EAPS! I am ridiculously pumped. Any words of wisdom to offer an incoming student??

    Hope you’re well, Lawrence, and hope to run into you on campus sometime!

    cheers,
    Kate

  13. on 19 Jun 2008 at 7:22 am   Lloyd

    Hey man, I stumbled across this site looking for matlab stuff. Props for the site man. Very cool. You cannot get more pro than music in the shower dictated by some random account holder over the net. Very impressed.

  14. on 21 Jun 2008 at 1:36 pm   David

    found your site googling for perl tips. the top menu is genius. love the music feed to your apartment. best personal site I’ve seen yet.

    best of luck with school

  15. on 27 Jul 2008 at 12:42 pm   Cristina

    hi!

    i ended up here looking for latex tips for my thesis… and i spent more time reading your blog than trying the tips… :-)

    thanks for the tips, and for the reading ;-)

    take care,

    cristina.

  16. on 29 Jul 2008 at 4:09 pm   limpet

    Got some cool latex tips from your website, especially on how to singlespace itemized lists. Thanks.

    Lots of useful other tips here too…guys like you who share their information freely are the backbone of open source…thanks

  17. on 05 Sep 2008 at 6:08 pm   lsi

    it would be better with other languages support, but thanks..

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