10.) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Quentin Tarantino has always been a filmmaker ahead of his time. From Reservoir Dogs, to Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2, and even to The Hateful Eight, each of his films becomes more exponentially experimental in how they establish his love for the art of cinema and 20th…
Last month, Slippery Rock University quarterback Roland Rivers III won the Harlon Hill award. The honor is the highest that can be received by an NCAA Division II football player, and is considered the “Heisman Trophy of DII.” Rivers posted an astonishing 4,460 passing yards for 52 touchdowns on the season. But the nation’s true…
The Mines Women’s Rugby Team had an incredible fall 2019 season. Coming off an undefeated regular season into two exhilarating championship rounds in Columbia, Missouri and Charlotte, North Carolina they were prepared to face whatever was thrown at them. Facing off against Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the sweet 16, Mines won 22-10 and advanced…
You are coming off an amazing (or not so amazing) semester at Mines, ready to turn over a new leaf, ready to hit the gym and ready to join every club you thought was cool last semester but “didn’t have time”. Same as everyone else. The rec center is packed, stress tolerance is low, and…
What Happened On December 18th, 2019, Trump became the third US president to be impeached by the House. Many watched news coverage or streaming of the debate, which took about eight hours. Both articles passed, with many of the votes following partisan trends. Now, the Senate will likely hold a trial to determine if President…
Forging and forming is an elective course within the MME department where the first lab teaches students how to forge a nail. Over the past two years this lab has expanded and developed into the Mines forge shop, located in the high bay area of Hill Hall. This program has been heavily funded and provided…
Now that we have entered the new decade, we have completed a century of existence at The Oredigger. In 1920, we weren’t any more than a group of Mines students with an idea. We’ve come quite a long way from reporting the formation of the first-ever Mines Student Council in 1921. In celebration…
Justin Cyrus, former Colorado School of Mines Student, was on the Enabled Opportunities on the Moon breakout session panel at this year’s Space Com conference in Houston, where I conducted the following interview. His father worked for Lockheed Martin, and so did his brother. Influenced by that, he has always wanted to work in the…
*Except at graduation. For that we get divided into three separate groups We’ve officially made it a full week into the semester, and the countdown timer on my phone has started ticking towards this upcoming May and I’ve already started to visualize myself walking across a graduation stage (to be fair, half of those visualizations…
Marvin the Miner, the first official mascot of the Colorado School of Mines Orediggers. Yes, that bushy-eyebrowed, pickaxe-toting, suspenders-wearing mascot. Now wait a minute, doesn’t that title belong to the omnipresent Blaster? Nope: according to canon lore, Blaster debuted as a mascot at Rock the Lock on February 16, 2018 – it hasn’t even been…