As the world carefully climbs out of the Coronavirus pandemic and things begin to slowly shift back to normal, it is safe to say that most people can not wait to get back into a movie theater for the summer movie season. 2020 saw almost every major film repeatedly delayed and movie-going audiences are excited…
Marvel Studios has finally announced that it intends to release its first Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Phase 4 movie, Black Widow, on July 9, 2021. The film, which has been postponed for over a year due to the repercussions of the Coronavirus pandemic, is set to debut in both theaters and on Disney Plus. It’s…
The music industry has been overwhelmingly active over the course of this past month, as the work that many artists created during quarantine was finally ready to be shared with the public. Listed below are a few albums that stood out the most to me, only skimming the surface of the amazing creations that were…
Starting in the fall of 2021, Mines will have yet another new program to offer students. A Bachelor of Science in Quantitative Biosciences and Engineering will be a new degree in an attempt to combine engineering with biology. The current QBE graduate degree has only been offered here at Mines since 2018, and now there…
Originally published on March 2nd, 2021. I watched in awe as a winter storm hit the South on February 13th. I’m from a town just north of Seattle, where we rarely get even a dusting of snow that sticks around, and I’ve always thought of hot-weather states like Texas as immune to harsh winter weather….
Originally published on March 2nd, 2021. Given you survived Wednesday evening’s snow blitz, welcome to the third issue of Updates in the CS World (really though, 9 inches of snow overnight?). As promised, this issue we’ll touch on spaCy, a natural language processing library for Python, given its major v3.0 release. Edu-macating your ComputerFor the…
Originally published on March 2nd, 2021. Mines, of course, has its reputation of being hard or, preferably by the admission’s team, “rigorous.” STEM degrees are expectedly challenging, but Mines comes with a hidden poison. We could debate the difficulty of courses compared to other schools, but one objective facet of Mines is unavoidable: unlike nearly…
Originally published on March 2, 2021. Unaffiliated and unofficial Colorado School of Mines Instagram accounts have been blowing up at an increasing exponential rate in the most recent months of this academic year. In the past only three months, there have been at least nine new unaffiliated Mines accounts. These accounts can be sorted into…
Are you looking to build your perfect class schedule this Fall? Make sure to check out some of these new coursed offered by the Registrar’s Office this upcoming Fall. MEGN342. UNDERWATER BASKETWEAVING. 2.0 Semester Hr. (I, II) An introduction to the mechanics of artistic fiber basket design while inhibited by fluid dynamics and a situational…
Have you ever been swarmed by foot traffic when leaving class? Have you ever felt the need to hide in a bubble to avoid germs or strangers? Have you ever wanted to get some sunshine without worrying about melanoma? Well, Mines has the solution: a human-sized hamster ball for every Mines student, available now! These…