By Evan Papageorge, President of the Stevens Institute of Technology Historical Society
Many often see history as an uninteresting subject in school, memorizing dates and writing about people who have been dead for hundreds of years.
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Just a week ago, I attended the 100 days ‘til graduation event, where all graduating seniors were invited to come together to celebrate the real beginning of the end.
It’s a sweltering summer day in England, 1935, and the teetering Tallis family drape themselves across their upper-class country house. Like dolls being perfectly positioned throughout the home, we meet the Tallis children—Leon, Celia, and Briony—from oldest to youngest as they linger between a misspent summer and a scandal that will alter their lives and scatter their bonds forever.
For centuries, humans have been obsessed with the unsettling. In the modern age, we continue to embrace the horror genre, typically in cinema, literature, or other entertainment mediums.
Each and every one of the buildings on the Stevens campus has its positives and negatives. Whether it’s the sparkling towers or the crusty old Edwin A.
The landscape of Stevens has changed so much since I came here in Fall 2020. When I arrived on campus, the UCC Towers were blocked behind fences and scaffolding obscured most of the view.
In a surprising turn of events, the United States government has recently enacted new legislation to ban some of the most popular holidays that people like to celebrate: New Year’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
Ever study for a test only to find your mind blank once you read the first question? Now, this would not be an issue on a small quiz, but the exam I took the past week holds 35 percent of
my physics grade.
As we’re scarily one-fifth of the way through the semester, I have taken some time to reflect on the past few weeks, as well as my entire college experience, seeing how it will be coming to an end so soon.
Ever since writing about the mathematics of love for Valentine’s Day last year, I have thought about writing an article that covers the mathematics of social connection in general.