Navigating your freshman year at Tech

The most important thing is to have a good footing early on. In your early years it is worth it to find some good direction. Here is some advice from older Tech students who have been around campus for a few years.

Preparing yourself for college

One of the exciting things of college is being independent. But independence comes with responsibilities; from academics and networking, to doing laundry and other chores to taking care of your nutrition and health, you must learn the balancing act quickly.

Networking 101

Before long, school starts, tests come, the thought of planning for the future has disappeared and we get caught up in the challenges of daily life. This is especially true for job searching and resume building.

Students respond to end of shuttle program

On Friday, July 8, the Space Shuttle Atlantis made the final ascent from space not only for itself, but also for NASA’s 30-year-old shuttle program as it concluded STS-135, the Shuttle program’s final mission.

Exploring Atlanta for dummies – or Techies

The summer semesters can be a slow and uneventful time for many Tech students; only so many games at the bowling center or levels of Portal 2 can preoccupy an idle student, but when campus life begins to grind to a halt and things begin to look dreary, there is still hope yet.

Stimulant drug use rising among Tech students

With short-summer finals concluding this week, students at Tech will be spending the next few days recovering from dreaded all-nighters and gratuitous amounts of energy drinks as a result of their efforts to cram those last few CS 1371 notes before the big test.

Tech students to compete in China this summer

While many students may be going to China for work or studying abroad this summer, three students will be traveling there to compete against entrepreneurs from all over the world in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Student Challenge (PolyU Global Challenge)...

How to live cheap, or somewhat free, at Tech

Life for Tech students has never been easy. The curriculum here alone provides enough of a challenge within itself, but now with the rising costs of both living and education, many are faced with the threat of not being able to continue their schooling...

Students, campus react to death of Osama bin Laden

It began with millions of confused children across the nation’s classrooms, watching two towers collapse in what would soon become one of the most famous video clips in American media. It ended with the same children, now college-aged and old enough to defend the country...

Tech hosts Relay for Life

Every year, almost two million people are diagnosed with cancer, and over 11 million people continue the struggle with the disease. In 1985, the American...
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