Trump Responds to Super Bowl LI
President Trump took to Twitter Sunday night to voice his support for the victorious New England Patriots. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer elaborated on...
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Have empathy when considering others’ plight
Empathy: The ability to understand and share the feelings of another. There has been a massive lack of it over the past few months ever...
International students in the crosshairs
With the threat of a newly-introduced H-1B Visa bill in the U.S. House of Representatives along with President Donald Trump’s ban on immigration from seven...
A fortunate family tie to Snicket’s work
I remember being vaguely afraid of Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events” in elementary school. I was intrigued, I think, enough to read the back...
On the necessity for encryption
Today’s world is full of constant communication. People can use their phones to message one another asynchronously, with messages travelling across the globe within seconds....
Check all that apply: How to play “Guess My Race”
“So, like, what are you?” “Um, kind of hungry. You?” “No, I mean where are you from?” “Atlanta, why?” “No, I mean … where are...
Trump’s immigration ban proves to be a messy affair
President Trump’s fabled ban on immigration from Muslim-majority nations has come to fruition, receiving an unsurprisingly swift condemnation from many angles and causing logistical snarls...
Strangers in a Strange Land
“What would happen if we included horizontal gene transfer in the model?” It was an intriguing question asked by a new Ph.D. student from Iran....
Tech becomes world’s most selective campus
When thinking of things that can ruin a child’s life, there is a generally accepted list of things to watch out for. Crack cocaine. PCP....
Trying to enjoy everything is foolish
I remember tackling a difficult orchestral work a few years ago when I played violin in my city’s youth symphony orchestra. It was Stravinsky’s Firebird...
Sports broadcasts are reaching absurd lengths
As the college football (and soon the NFL) season has come and gone, it is a good time to look at the direction broadcasting companies...
Construction at Tech is simply out of control
If you are like me, you would appreciate it if there were less unnecessary and disruptive construction on this campus. That which is occurring on...
Take time figuring out your career
hough my major — Electrical Engineering — was set in stone, I was still very confused about what I wanted to pursue. The problem with...
Science faces threats from Trump
Do not let petty politics come before objective truth President Donald Trump’s new administration brought the proverbial hammer down on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
Do not confuse TV with real history
To compare dry lessons about names, dates and events in a history course with a dramatized, for-profit television program based on names, dates and historical...
The amazing upsides of living off campus
We all know Tech is prestigious; it is probably the reason most students chose to attend. Tech is known for its cutting edge research, high...