By Van Jensen on June 28, 2010
Late on Friday and Sunday nights, a group of mostly graduate students takes over the Campus Recreation Center pool. They mark off a 25-by-15-meter rectangle with white PVC pipe on the bottom of the pool.
A lead disk coated with plastic is dropped in the center of the makeshift field. Two co-ed teams of six players [...]
Posted in July/August 2010, Student Life, Tech Topics
By Van Jensen on May 3, 2010
Founded in 1995, Georgia Tech’s Equestrian Club is made up of about 30 female riders competing in 28 events a year across the Southeast.
Posted in Excerpt, May/June 2010, Student Life, Tech Topics
By Van Jensen on April 14, 2010
While procrastinating on a group assignment for a computer science class, four students started talking about the popular sites textsfromlastnight.com and fmylife.com and thought a Tech-centric version would be fun. They liked the idea so much they decided to go ahead and create it, and a week later launched onlyattech.net as their group presentation in [...]
Posted in May/June 2010, Student Life, Tech Topics
By Van Jensen on March 1, 2010
Last June, Doug Kenny found himself on a tricycle, a green screen behind him and two leaf blowers going full blast a few inches from his face.
Posted in Mar/Apr 2010, Student Life
By Van Jensen on February 26, 2010
Tech’s students, even those with two left feet, learn moves with the dance club.
Posted in Excerpt, Mar/Apr 2010, Student Life
By Leslie Overman on February 8, 2010
Freshman Jasmine Lawrence ran a multimillion-dollar business before heading to Tech to study computer engineering.
Posted in Excerpt, Jan/Feb 2010, Student Life