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MIT Media Lab Tightens Its Belt
Forbes Magazine has this story about the MIT Media Laboratory's current "burn rate" problem. It seems that the Media Lab is feeling the same big draft at its posterior that dot-com companies felt last year after years of go-go growth and seemingly unlimited funding. The Media Lab is particularly sensitive to this downturn due to its heavy reliance on corporate sponsorship, as well as its fondness for unconventional, even eccentric, research. Items that will no longer receive funding according to a January 5th internal E-mail from the Lab's Executive Director Walter Bender: cellular telephones, first-class air travel, food at internal Lab meetings, and furniture. Other more serious cutbacks for the Lab include layoffs for 29 staff members and reduced funding for students, including salaries for "Undergraduate Research Opportunities" (UROP) positions. The Media Lab had previously paid such positions $8.75 and up in order to remain competitive with industry offers that even not-yet-graduated students were receiving.
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MIT can survive whatever Bil Gates throws at it.
Bonfire K has been vacant for 15 min
Bonfire L has been vacant for 20 min
Pecker L has been vacant for 28 min
Pecker K has been vacant for 39 min
Clam K has been vacant for 4 min
Clam L has been vacant for 2 min
BMF L has been vacant for 3 hr
BMF K has been vacant for 15 min
Loop K has been vacant for 6 min
* Loop L has been occupied for 20 min
Uhhhh, I *don't* want to know.
* beer for homiez ... $30
... $275
... priceless
* fake police car
* knowing that will be your last penny
How the fuck is that overrated? who is modding
me down?
It is "Funny", F-u-n-n-y. Mod it as such.
How the is this a troll?
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.