By Lina Hegazy Mines is a place where engineers thrive. It fosters skill, technicality, and offers dozens of opportunities to develop industry specific knowledge. Most importantly, Mines fosters creativity and innovation – or at least that’s what they try to convince us in our HASS classes? In all honesty, Mines really is great – but…
By McKenna Larson Cram the night before. This is a classic for a reason—it works! No matter how much studying you do or don’t do before the last minute, always spend the wee hours of the morning before an exam staring at a computer screen or textbook. Stop going to classes. How can anyone have…
By McKenna Larson Colorado School of Mines takes pride in the success of students at all levels in finding jobs at Career Day. It’s a full day for students to meet employers, practice professional social skills, and really see what is out there in the world after college. Perfect right? Well, it would be if…
By McKenna Larson This is a direct response to the terribly social E-Days schedule created by the school. Stay inside without having to sacrifice the events of the weekend. All events take place in/around your own home, no tickets or reservations are required, and other humans are completely optional. Thursday, April 21st Activities with no…
By McKenna Larson Student debt payment countdown clock. Friends don’t let friends miss payments A Job Rejection preparedness kit This should at least include tissues and some kind of card that says, “you were too good for that job anyway.” Anything else can be added that someone would need to keep Live-Laugh-Loving their way through…
By Jeremiah Vaille At the beginning of the month, I was rickrolled by one of my professors. Professor Kinzli sent his hydrology class a hyperlink to a video to watch before class, but the hyperlink went to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video. Since it was April Fool’s Day which occurs on…
By Lauren D’Ambra Last Thursday, I was working on some graphics for the newspaper when my phone started incessantly buzzing with lots of messages. Confused, because it was barely 9am, I picked up my phone to see what the fuss was about, and discovered that a student GroupMe I am a part of was riled…
By McKenna Larson Daylight Savings Time is the annoying remnant of an America focused on maximizing the working hours of farmers. In modern days it is an annoyance that causes fluctuations in sleep patterns, increased car accidents, and general loathing. Scientists, law makers, and sleep-loving Americans have debated the negative impacts of the “spring forward”…
By McKenna Larson The Golddigger is the annual satire issue of The Oredigger. All stories on this page were intentionally written with satire in mind and are not to be taken seriously. Contact us at orediggerstories@gmail.com for any comments or questions. School officials have made the drastic, but unsurprising, announcement to declare engineering dead. The…
By Giovanni Ramirez The Golddigger is the annual satire issue of The Oredigger. All stories on this page were intentionally written with satire in mind and are not to be taken seriously. Contact us at orediggerstories@gmail.com for any comments or questions. For today’s very special television review I’ll be right to the point. I present…