Over the weekend, the RPI community was notified via RPIAlert that Hurricane Sandy could become a threat to the area. As a result, all classes and non-essential operations were canceled after noon on Monday. But, as of Tuesday, October 30, operations were set to continue as usual. Read more...
Monthly Archives: October 2012
This past Monday saw the arrival of Hurricane Sandy to the Capital Region. Whilst cities along the coast were bombarded with heavy rain and strong winds, Troy faced relatively mild weather. Even with the lack of hurricane gusts and falling trees, the Institute leadership deemed it necessary to cancel classes after 12 pm on Monday in case weather turned very poor and students were stuck outside or away from safe places. We at The Poly would like to commend the Institute for its constant communication and concern for student, faculty and staff. Read more...
At first, the entire zombie mob was completely awkward. There were a couple people whose makeup was fantastic, while there were others who just dabbed some blood on their faces and called themselves zombies. Either was fine really—a convincing performance is still necessary, however. Read more...
President Shirley Ann Jackson held her annual Fall Town Hall Meeting this past Wednesday, October 24. The meeting was held in the theater of the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Preforming Arts Center, and featured Jackson speaking on many developments and achievements in the institute over the past year. Read more...
If you’re an RPI student (or maybe even a faculty or staff member), stress isn’t exactly a foreign concept to you. Dealing with that stress, though, is something that a lot of us have problems with. Now, some people try to stave off stress by drinking or inflicting some form of self-harm. While I’m not going to say I’ve done either of those, I’m going to say those are bad ways of going about it. I’ve found recently that talking to people about your problems is more efficient. Also, your liver will thank you later. Read more...
The concept of open source is probably a notion that is unique to Computer Science. In fact, most people simply see it as a means to get free stuff. As a friend so aptly put it, “I have to buy all my engineering textbooks, but you have that open source thing going for you where the author probably put it on his website for you to download for free.” Run by the computer science honors society, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the Open Source Software Festival, known as OSSFest, is an attempt to both share the power of community-based software to address the needs of the Institute, and to debunk much of the misconceptions about open source. The festival took place in the Darrin Communications Center with the main events split between a poster session featuring projects by the Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software and talks on the nature and power of open source software. Read more...
It’s gotten to the point of the year where if you are thinking of living off-campus next year, you need to start looking for houses. Depending on how many people you are looking to get an apartment (or a house) with, the time you have left to find a place could be short. Read more...
This past Sunday, over forty RPI computer science students arrived at Lally Hall to compete in the semi-annual programming competition, put together by RPI’s chapter of the computer science honor society Upsilon Pi Epsilon. The only qualification to enter as a contestant was to be a student currently enrolled at RPI, so non-computer science majors were welcome to participate as well. Read more...
This week’s Top Hat is written by the Chair of the Senate’s Finance, Facilities and Administration Committee—Russell Brown. Brown is a very experienced member of the Senate, starting with his involvement in his freshman year, and was also the 146th Grand Marshal. He will talk about what his committee has been up to and how you can get involved. Read more...
The Tomorrow Project Anthology is an eye-opening display of possible futures. With a little extrapolation and imagination, this short collection presents applications and consequences of developing technologies—and it is not always a comfortable feeling. Read more...
Hello, RPI, and happy Halloween! If you are planning on celebrating tonight, please do so safely. While it appears that the worst of Hurricane Sandy has passed (at least it looks like it will have at the time of writing this article), please continue to monitor the weather and listen to any updates that the Institute might provide. Read more...
As part of its new film series Shadow Play, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center screened Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca. Known for being Hitchcock’s first film (and his only film to win an Academy Award), Rebecca features Sir Laurence Olivier as Maxim de Winter and Joan Fontaine as the main character. It is based off the book of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. Read more...
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