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Posts published by “Maryia Spirydonava”

Earth Day year round

Every year, there is a week dedicated to the Earth to raise awareness of the importance of preserving our planet. This year, Earth Day is on April 22.

First ever Fledgling Film Festival

For the past few years, more events and organizations have been created to let Stevens students try something away from the STEM field and let them express their creativity.

Communication – the human connection

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” —George Bernard Shaw

How true those words are.

Changing the norm, not embracing it

This week I wanted to discuss movies, specifically “movement” movies. You know the type: the ones that market themselves as having either an all-female cast, or an all non-white cast, etc.

S.O.S.

It has been 5 days, 3 minutes, and 19 seconds since the mice have overtaken Jacobus. We did not see the attack coming — they came in the middle of the night, in a wave of thousands, but luckily, the building was mostly empty.

Accept the critiques

It’s only human to want to please everyone and to get upset when people disagree with what you do.  I have been in these situations many times and have been disappointed, and I’ve also seen others be stressed out over other people’s criticism.

Stevens student places second in RPI Design Competition

Sankee Maringanti, a 3/5 Mechanical Engineering major, placed second in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s first annual Engineering Innovation for Society: Student Design Competition.

DuckHacks Hackathon

On Saturday, March 24, students in the Software Engineering Department will present Stevens’ third annual DuckHacks. This annual event was Stevens’ first hackathon.

Treat yo’ self

Today, it was brought to my attention that I let classes, and the fact that I’m not doing as well as I feel I should be in them, get to me and bring me down.

The Second Amendment is safe

It is not even March yet and already there have been 18 school shootings in the U.S. Eighteen!

It’s almost as if this number is screaming at people for something to change, but instead people decided to argue over what characterizes a “school shooting.”