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Finals season red flags

With finals season just around the corner, a Stevens student must be willing to sacrifice any will to live. The Registrar has no mercy — a three-hour test slot could strike at any inconvenient time so good luck if you have any mandatory life events coming up.

Not on schedule

You know that scheduling your classes for the next semester is going great when you spend four hours redrafting because none of your humanities courses fit in.

Coping with Spring semester burnout

For whatever reason, and I know that at least people who I am close with agree, the spring semester is always so much more packed than the fall.

What does a math Ph.D. student actually do?

The title of this article is a question I usually get asked. Admittedly, it’s a hard question to answer briefly since a sentence like, “I take graduate-level courses to gain a general background in the subject and then conduct original research in mathematics in order to defend a thesis,” leads to many follow-up questions.

Beggars in Spain: Sci-fi gene editing from future’s past

Human genetics remains a largely unexplored frontier in which our dabbling becomes an ethical debate of playing God. Before CRISPR gene editing technology was mainstream, the 1993 sci-fi novel Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress is set between 2008 to the 2030s and offers social and ethical commentary on present-day genetic engineering.

Passing the torch

My term on the Stute E-Board has officially ended, and while I’m still involved as an editor, I get to watch the new leadership start to carve their paths.

Midtown: PATH to Grand Central

Although I am attending Stevens, I am actually from Connecticut (where I often have to defend against the armies of the New Jersians here in Hoboken).