Midterms have a way of sneaking up on you. One week you’re telling yourself there’s plenty of time, and the next week you’re getting asked to leave the library because it’s closing, running on cold brew, and whatever snacks you could grab between classes.
The Stute
In what feels like no time at all, midterms are back on our radars, and we’re holed up in our dorms or the library for hours at a time, cramming every bit of information from the past six weeks.
Major Silicon Valley AI firm Anthropic has walked away from talks with the U.S. Department of Defense and released a statement from CEO Dario Amodei publicly opposing the federal government, in response to Anthropic’s concerns over how they will use Anthropic’s products both in foreign wars and for domestic purposes.
On Saturday, March 7, the Entertainment Committee held its yearly Battle of the Bands event at 7:30 p.m. in Bissinger. This is a huge event that many members of the Stevens music scene look forward to, and the selected winners are offered the opportunity to open for the Techfest headliner.
Dr. Feng Liu is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Systems Engineering here at Stevens, and his latest project is making and developing AI models that help “decode” the brain with the help of multiple other already existing medical tools, such as an electroencephalogram (EEG) and different types of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Stevens students recently volunteered at the Weehawken Middle School STEM Night, leading a variety of interactive experiments and workshops for the children there.
On February 11, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed Executive Order No. 12, “prohibit[ing] ICE agents from entering, accessing, or using nonpublic areas of State property for their operations unless authorized by a judicial warrant.”
There’s a certain kind of confidence you gain after a co-op that’s hard to explain until you see it. It’s not loud.
There are no words to describe the emotions I have been feeling this week.
I was speaking with a friend of mine this past weekend, and I told him without a second thought, “I am different from the way I used to be.”
Sometimes, I feel like transporting to a different country while studying for midterms for a small getaway, and Alessio’s Cafe is exactly that.