Aside from academics, there is vast potential for personal growth and learning. For me, the Graduate Student Government Association is where I decided to learn outside the classroom and lab.
A quick look at what’s HOT and what’s NOT around campus this week. HOT: Swarming Starbucks The center of campus is getting an extra jolt of caffeine from the Clough Commons Starbucks. Soon, students in […]
An A and a 4.0 GPA mean less today than they did 50 years ago. Many students, high in hubris and low in modesty, wear their high GPAs on their sleeves proudly, while many of their As were given rather than earned.
I have spent the past two months in Washington, D.C., feeling like something was missing from the city.
After seven earlier films and novels reaching back over a decade, the Harry Potter saga came to a solid and satisfying conclusion this month in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. As the […]
Without question, the Institute deserves its share of blame for the penalties handed down by the NCAA last week.
As the digital world shifts increasingly to cloud-based services backed by faster computing power and internet connection speeds, the issues of cyber crime and information security have become significantly more important to the average user.
The Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) initiative will bring Tech many benefits, name recognition being the most prominent one.
After one of the most successful basketball seasons in recent memory, the NBA lockout could not have come at a worse time. Ratings went through the roof, and merchandise sales shot up for the first time since the mid-’90s. Walking around town, everyone was talking about the NBA finals, and how exciting the down-to-the-wire games were going. It’s undeniable that the media portraying the Miami Heat as villains and making everyone’s home team a “good guy” against them seriously boosted the appeal of watching the NBA.
These past few months, it’s been hard to flip a channel without running into coverage of the Casey Anthony murder trial.
Long has it been since romance on the silver screen captured the heart of its audience. Modern “romance” movies, if you can even call them that, in no way reflect the great films that provided […]
The recently proposed Georgia Tech-Savannah (GTS) reformation program is a rightfully justified course of action.
The end of my spring semester welcomed a slew of Facebook statuses, Tweets and chain e-mails filled with “warnings” and “reminders” of the impending “Judgment Day,” which was set to occur on May 21, according to Harold Camping, a Christian radio broadcaster.
Normally, I used to hate the year-and-a-half-long head start of political campaigning that comes with the presidential election because I was younger and not able to vote, but this year it’s different. I’ve been waiting […]
Amid the string of vehicle break-ins, robberies and thefts that occurred throughout the city of Atlanta and on the Tech campus in the past two weeks, GTPD took a more passive approach in communicating the issue directly to the campus community than expected.
There would seem to be one obvious guideline in purchasing a professional sports team: the buyer should have a long-term plan for success in mind. And yet this, above all else, was where the Atlanta Spirit Group failed miserably.
Years before the term was coined, I had already been labeled as a “tiger child,” a child of an Asian parent, who was a “tiger mother.” The term, created by writer and Yale academic Amy Chua, refers to parents who “believe their children can be ‘the best’ students.”
On May 6, a lifelong dream and aspiration came to fruition when I was announced as the next dean of the Georgia Tech College of Engineering. As I assume this new role, I look forward to the opportunities and challenges that we will all take on together within engineering and with other colleges and units across campus.