Everyone’s doing research. But what are we really getting out of it?
Around 60 percent of chemical engineering students at Tech participate in undergraduate research before graduation. Lured in by this statistic and the opportunity to take...
Opinions
“The one where we got mugged at gunpoint”
Home Park, a pocket of quiet, dark streets lined by single-family homes and chain-link fences, can be frightening to outsiders at night, but students make...
Making major changes less stressful
Acquainting first-semester freshmen with college subjects
On being an “angry” feminist
A lot of things lately have been enraging me, and yet I’m the one that looks like a jerk when I have actual feelings about...
How much is your Tech parking permit really worth?
Anyone familiar with parking on campus, specifically Peters parking deck, understands the level of emotion generally felt when you pull into the deck and see...
It’s 2017. Does the NCAA even matter?
On Oct. 13th, 2017, the National Collegiate Athletic Association — college athletics’ highest governing body — announced that the University of North Carolina, which had...
Embracing the side-hustle: freelancing and the gig economy
When I started college, I put my camera in the bottom drawer of my rickety freshman desk in Hefner and decided it would be easier...
On the #metoo campaign
Addressing a culture that chooses to looks away
The overlooked intricacy of a football game
Last December, pop scientist Neil DeGrasse Tyson claimed on Twitter, “[s]ometimes I wonder if we’d have flying cars by now had civilization spent a little...
Tech Dining rebrands, but does not improve
One of my personal favorite debates as a Tech student is discussing which campus department provides the worst services to students. For many people, the...
A service animal’s unintended consequences
In 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act was put in place to protect the rights of people with disabilities. More specifically, the law protects people...
The link between poverty and obesity
In recent decades, health professionals and the general public have drawn attention to rising obesity rates in the United States. Adjacent to the concern grew...
Lifelong lessons from children’s shows
It should be a given that, as humans, we respect each other and our surroundings. However, we seem to have lost a hold on that...
Taking measures before it’s too late
Ever since I can remember, I have had anxiety. After it started affecting my daily life, I began therapy. It was no miracle cure, but...
Should Facebook protect us from ourselves?
More than two years ago, I came to Tech as an undergraduate freshman. I am an international student, and this would be the first time...
An open letter to the Georgia Tech community
Inevitably, right after we release admission decisions, I’ll be walking around campus or in a meeting and someone will say, “I would not want your...
Weinstein: fear and loathing in Los Angeles
That Harvey Weinstein was able to harass and assault women unimpeded since the nineties reveals something is deeply wrong with Hollywood culture — and what...