Next Monday, Mar. 31 is the day The Tomorrow People will air its last episode of season one and quite possibly its last episode of the series. Judging by the dropping number of viewers, and the general quality of the show, The Tomorrow People might not be renewed for season two, though its network The CW has not confirmed or denied cancelation.

The Tomorrow People is based on the concept of the next stage in human evolution: Homo superior. The main characters are mostly human but have superpowers that have been creatively named “the Three T’s: telepathy, teleportation, and telekinesis.” When first introduced, this seems as if it is simply a way of stating their powers concisely. The viewer soon finds out that this is not the case.

Throughout the show, different characters say “the Three T’s: telepathy, teleportation, and telekinesis,” rarely if ever and just end their statement with simply “the Three T’s.” To make matters worse, there are two people in the show who have shown the ability to stop time, so the Three T’s do not apply to everyone anyway.

Vernacular aside, the actual plot of The Tomorrow People revolves around Stephen Jameson (Robbie Amell, Left for Dead), a recent “break-out” or someone who has just discovered that he or she is a Homo superior. Through an overly convoluted series of events that leaves the audience questioning the intelligence of the main antagonists, Stephen finds himself pretending to work for Ultra while actually helping the Tomorrow People, an underground (literally, they live in an inexplicably abandoned subway depot) group of people with superpowers.

Ultra is a ludicrously evil organization that operates on the assumption that no one will ever ask why they have a well-equipped army in New York City as well as a high security prison that holds people who have superpowers for no other reason than they are not technically human. It has been mentioned in several episodes that Ultra has killed many Homo superiors, though the organization tends to capture them and strip them of their powers. There has been no clarification as to how Ultra explains the disappearances nor how an injection can change someone’s species.

Both the Tomorrow People and Ultra have decided it is best not to let the world know that the Tomorrow People exist. While this decision means that the Tomorrow People tend not to use their powers in public, the show does not address the problem of Ultra telling the Homo sapiens what they are doing.

These questions and others could lead a viewer to lose faith in the writers, but some dedicated audience members might enjoy the plot holes. The fact that main characters can be so oblivious can be amusing or very frustrating.

Apart from these unaddressed plot holes, the show is borderline decent.

The over-arching plot is shown in tandem with subplots with less significant breakouts, relationship issues and leadership quarrels. In general, this shows that the Tomorrow People are not just trying to escape Ultra (otherwise, they could simply teleport to another city), but that they are attempting to live a normal life, albeit an underground one where college or a job are impossibilities.

This interestingly plot-hole-riddled story is not the first attempt at creating The Tomorrow People. From 1973 to 1979, Thames Television in the U.K. aired the original Tomorrow People. This show was aimed at a younger audience and is quite humorous in a roundabout way.

In the 1990s, The Tomorrow People was rebooted and lasted for 25 episodes. The most recent reboot has the best special effects yet for teleportation and telekinesis. Sadly, special effects do not, on their own, make something worthwhile.

Perhaps seeing Stephen, a high school student training for combat, going to bars and never doing school work is entertaining for some, but this show raises too many questions for the educated, quick-thinking students found at schools like Tech.

This reboot has yet to introduced aliens, a staple in both the previous iterations. This gives the series some hope for a renewal and deepened interest from viewers.

What would you say is you biggest memory while apart of this team?

Hyde: It would probably be my walk-off [HR] here [at Russ Chandler Stadium] against North Carolina last year.

What is your favorite tradition here at Georgia Tech?

Hyde: All of the songs that are played and how the fans get into them.

As a young child, what did you want to be growing up?

Hyde: Oh, when I was little I wanted to drive big trucks. I don’t know why but I did.

“Do you have any individual goals for the team this season?”

Hyde: Well we have a list of team goals in the locker room that we touch every day. One of those goals is to host Regionals and make it to Omaha.

At what age did you start playing baseball?

Hyde: I was young, so around 4 or 5.

I read that you were born in Saudi Arabia. When did you move to the US?

Hyde: When I was 2.

You were drafted in 2010 by the Blue Jays. What made you come to Georgia Tech instead of pursue a professional career right away?

Hyde: The coaches, the education, and I was coming in with a lot of friends that I wanted to play with.

Do you have any hobbies?

Hyde: I like to fish and hunt. I like outdoors stuff.

Who was your baseball idol growing up?

Hyde: I would have to say Deter Jeter.

Any nicknames on the field?

Hyde: None really, everyone calls me Mott.

If you could play any other sport, what would it be?

Hyde: Basketball

Would you play for Tech?

Hyde: I’m pretty good, so I’ll probably make the team. Just kidding.

It is in the nature of higher education for schools to interview and select faculty members that will do their very best in making that school’s students the best and brightest the nation has seen; however, what happens when costs are tight, yet the demand for faculty members remains high?

Universities hire adjunct faculty members to teach classes. These sorts of things have been happening for some time yet only recently has the spotlight turned towards adjunct professors, and as a staff report conducted by the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce found last January, the results were rather astounding.

The New York Times wrote in on the matter, citing the committee’s findings. Adjunct professors are paid by the course, at an average salary of under $3,000 per three-credit course. The highest per course salary maxed out around $5,000, with only ten percent of the people receiving the salary. That means, on average, a person would need to manage roughly 7-8 courses before making above $20,000, which would amount to spending less than $400 per week and making less than the average janitor.

Before becoming a Brittain Fellow with Tech in 2011, Tech English Professor John Harkey was an adjunct himself with a university system in the greater New York City area.

“I worked as an adjunct at LaGuardia Community College,” Harkey said. “It’s the most diverse and busiest community college in the nation. It’ an amazing place and I have only good things to say about that school in general.”

Harkey admitted his own experience wasn’t as bad as many of his peers.

“I had friends who were working at three colleges simultaneously, taking trains and buses, all over New York City, day after day, week after week to cover these classes,” Harkey said. “They might be teaching two sections up in the Bronx, a course out in Queens and then a course in Manhattan, and on top of all of that, studying to get their Ph.D. Some of them had artistic careers and did this on the side, but there were a lot of adjuncts and I witnessed a lot of the exhaustion of the system.”

Meanwhile, programs such as the Brittain Fellowship at Tech help create layers of separation between the current state of academia elsewhere and at Tech.

“There was an overhaul or redesign of the program, when Dr. Rebecca Burnett came in,” Harkey said. “Her vision was the program would be a truer doctoral program where you have projects, and committees, and we collaborate. There would be more active attempts to facilitate the research that people were doing; she’s negotiated an increase in the pay, and it’s definitely a solid post-doc salary.”

Contrary to many campuses, the Brittain Fellowship also offers its participants both health benefits, as well as a steadily increasing pay over the course of their three years of time at Tech.

In another light, having an adjunct or part-time lecturer can be beneficial to students. Those faculty can use something that many purely academic teachers lack to teach their students: experience.

Alan Flury is a part-time lecturer at Scheller College of Business. Flury used to work at Accenture before taking early retirement to come back to school to teach.

“I talked to the Dean of the Business School because I wanted to stay active,” Flury said. “My original aspiration was just to teach a couple of courses, but she had asked me if I would consider doing a little bit more of a full-time basis, so I originally came in as a director of the entrepreneurship center, but overtime, I sort of evolved more into this teaching role which I really enjoy doing.”

Flury then weighed in on the benefits of having part-time faculty as part of a university system.

“I think that there are some types of subjects that are actually better taught by adjuncts and part-time instructors because the subjects themselves require a good deal of practical perspective from being there and doing that,” Flury said.

There are more than a few classes at Tech, including Business Law and Entrepreneurial classes, in which the classroom focus is shifted from true academia to a more career-oriented setting.

In other circumstances, an adjunct professor would be a compromise or a way for a university to save money and time for research, but in these classes, a background in the real-world can benefit the students taking the class.

“Physics is an example where an academic is probably very well positioned to teach physics, but something like entrepreneurship is really difficult to [teach] because entrepreneurship is something you have to experience,” Flury said.

While problems may be brewing in higher education nationally, Tech seems manage both its students and its faculty well as it continues to deliver the very best.

Tech is a research and innovation focused school, and one where, according to Flury, “teaching can be an end to a means, and research is that means.”

Non-tenure track professors, in these situations, can provide the guidance for students who may be overlooked in the universities’ research-centered goals.

Last Friday, the Art@Tech Program introduced the much-anticipated Clough Art Crawl. This exhibit was originally scheduled to open with the Arts Festival. Due to inclement weather, those who wished to see the display of student artwork were forced to wait another two weeks.

This delayed opening has put into question the closing date of the exhibit, which was set to end on Mar. 1, the day after it opened. It has been announced that the Clough Art Crawl will run until Mar. 15, preserving the originally planned duration of two weeks, noticeably less than the month-long showcase of last year.

Although the student-made artwork will be displayed for a shorter time than the 2013 Art Crawl, it is no less impressive. The exhibit includes pieces as simple as a well-timed photograph or as intricate as a detailed painting. In addition to the typical two dimensional artwork, the Clough Art Crawl includes several interesting interpretations of art.

One such example is Shrinka Roy’s upcycled dress that is currently untitled. This Mechanical Engineering student decided to create a pretty white dress from reused or recycled materials. Forming what is commonly defined as trash into art is a skill not many people can act upon and embrace.

Another interesting piece is Phebe Tam’s Hayao Miyazaki Island. This diorama is dedicated to the Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki. Tam’s art includes scenes from four of Miyazaki’s films. Ponyo is perhaps the easiest reference to see. In the foreground of the diorama is a wave with representative pink dots surrounding a small model of Ponyo herself, surfing atop the wave. The other three films included in the tribute to Miyazaki are Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro and Castle in the Sky. Each of these films has a unique theme that is diligently depicted in Tam’s work.

While Phebe Tam is an Architecture student, not a recognized professional artist, this is high praise of Miyazaki. Most turn to TV or books, the receiving end of creativity, for entertainment purposes. For Tam, and all who are part of the Art Crawl, receiving the creativity of others was not enough. The mere fact that the Clough artists gave up their precious time, sacrificing studying to create the pieces on display is noteworthy.

Whether a student likes being on the receiving end or the one propagating creativity, the Art Crawl will oblige. Those who enjoy perusing the creativity of others need only wander through Clough’s second, third and fourth floors any day this week to be inundated with fanciful masterpieces submitted by their peers.

Some of the artwork, though, is not fanciful in the slightest. Kate Napier’s Reimagine the Image of God, for example, is a religious piece that attempts to challenge a commonly held belief. Mollie Taylor’s Proximity to Nature argues that people do not have to go far to find sanctuary from hectic city life. As a matter of fact, this piece shows that nature can be found without leaving the city.

Of course, how could an art display be complete without someone submitting purposefully inflammatory works? This year, the Clough Art Crawl includes Mohammad Khan’s FYI, FYE, which displays a yelling man surrounded in blood with the words “[F***] Your Ethnicity” scrawled across the entire work.

The description that goes with FYI, FYE explains what the artist was thinking, and actually makes the piece seem rather like a well-thought-out position cleverly disguised as bigoted absurdity. However, it is left to the beholder to determine if the artist intended it as such or simply lucked in to an excuse.

On Feb. 25, the Area Manager of North Avenue Apartments (NAA), Andrew Pasch, issued an email detailing safety and security measures to residents, prompted by an unusually high rate of personal property theft in recent months.

According to Dan Morrison, Director of Housing, there have been ten reported thefts between Jan. 6th and Feb. 14th. The Georgia Tech Police Department (GTPD) reports six of these were burglaries from resident apartments; in all cases, victims had either left their apartment door unlocked, their bedroom doors unlocked or both. The other four robberies were of unattended valuables in public areas, three of which occurred in the Student Center.

“We normally average between one to three thefts per semester in apartment-style housing, so ten in a six week period is a considerable increase,” Morrison said.

GTPD estimates there have been $6,000 to $10,000 in electronics and cash stolen with each of the burglaries averaging $1,000.

In addition to emailing residents, Housing has partnered with GTPD to begin an information initiative to educate and encourage students to practice basic safety and security measures. Door hangers and posters have been placed in residence halls across campus and Student Staff are encouraged to create programs around security training. GTPD has been patrolling hallways and were joined by NAA Duty Staff last weekend. In one patrol, GTPD tested whether doors were locked and found 245 to be unsecured, averaging seven per floor. Morrison said that was nearly half of the doors GTPD checked.

According to GTPD Captain Randy Barrone, the police are exploring all possibilities, and there is no way to know if the perpetrator is a student or not.

“At this time, there is no information to share with the community that would benefit the active investigation,” Barrone said.

When asked for personal conjecture, Morrison stated his belief that it may be a student because they would blend in and be at ease in the environment.

A student could enter an apartment and if anyone was home, “she or he might ‘pretend’ they entered the wrong apartment if they were caught there. A resident may think nothing of this and, since they didn’t lose anything, they may not then report it to [Housing] or the GTPD.” Residents are urged to report any such incident immediately to Housing and GTPD.

NAA are among the majority of apartment-style housing at Tech that does not have automatically locking doors. Those that do, such as the Graduate Living Center, have a front office in the lobby where it is easy for students who have been locked out to find someone to let them in. Many NAA require students to go outside to another hall to get a spare key to gain entrance to their rooms.

“Students tell us they do not want the auto-lock doors,” Morrison said.

Despite these crimes, NAA are already among the best protected in all of Housing. They have more video cameras than most residence halls, and there are also additional gates barring entrance to the area due to its location near downtown Atlanta.

At this time, there are no plans for additional cameras or physical barriers in the area.

“It’s simply cost prohibitive to put [cameras] in all of our miles of corridors. . . . we have very little crime in our halls, and locking one’s door will prevent most all that does occur,” Morrison said.

Barrone reported that a review of available video has not revealed any suspects.

None of the victims have reported either confronting or being confronted by the perpetrator and no one has been physically harmed. In all cases, the victim was either not home or was not in conscious possession of their valuables when they were taken. One student had a cell phone plugged into her laptop stolen during a 30 minute nap in the Student Center.

Starting in the following academic school year, students living on campus will have the option of living in the Startup House, a new ThinkBig community. Residents will live in upper two floors of the Crecine apartments on West Campus.

“Georgia Tech students are risk takers and that a lot of [students] will start their own businesses or create new technology and need to have an outlet for business and entrepreneurship,” said Holly Shikano, Coordinator of Residential Academic Initiatives at Georgia Tech Housing.

Residents involved in a ThinkBig program would interact with a faculty member once a week and participate in large group activities every two weeks.

The faculty who proposed this program are Keith McGregor and Brandy Nagel from the VentureLab, which assists emerging student businesses.

In the Startup house, local entrepreneurs, especially Tech alumni, would be invited to talk to students about the process of starting a business and marketing an idea. This weekly meeting can be taken as an audited class by any interested students.

“It’s going to be really cool because you’re going to meet people… that have been in your shoes… and hear about their experiences,” Shikano said. “One future speaker is a graduate from this school who has developed and sold a heart monitor in the Apple Store. In addition, a monthly field trip to the Venture Lab in Technology Square is planned.”

Students from all majors such as business and engineering are invited to apply, because the act of starting a business requires integration of many skills. This housing option can also bring together teams working toward the Inventure Prize or who are taking Senior Design and Capstone courses.

“We know that one of the challenges of working in a team is finding time to meet… and so it’ll be much easier if you’re all living on the same floor,” Shikano said.

For its inaugural year, 50 students will be accepted in this program and live in that floor’s 18 apartments. This building includes laundry machines, study lounges and a recently renovated courtyard that has a recreational field and barbeque grills.

The ThinkBig communities have a greater deal of intimacy in terms of apartment-style housing.

“When you have a floor of 60 people and you have your own bedroom and there’s four doors between you and someone else, it can be a challenge to get to know your neighbor.  Moving … to the ThinkBig community can make the transition smoother because other people are interested in the same topic,” Shikano said.

On March 6 and 7, Tech’s Mobilizing Opportunities for Volunteer Experience (MOVE) will hold their second annual Sting Hunger Now Event as the culmination of their Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week.  They have raised over $38,000 to meet their goal of packaging 250,000 meals to feed the hungry in developing countries through the international hunger relief agency Stop Hunger Now.

MOVE is composed of 14 committees, each dedicated to creating volunteer opportunities for Tech faculty, staff, and students in their own unique way. The oldest of the committees, Techwood Tutorial Project, is dedicated to educating Atlanta’s elementary students and will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2014. For this event MOVE’s Hunger and Homelessness Committee is collaborating with the Christian Campus Fellowship (CCF) during the latter’s Week of Compassion.

Last year, the event packaged 100,242 meals, and it is their goal to more than double that number this year. They expect 1,200 volunteers to participate over the two day event.  According to Stop Hunger Now’s website, stophungernow.org, 50 volunteers are able to package 10,000 meals in two hours, which means if 1,200 volunteers participate for two hours, 240,000 could be meals packaged, provided they raise enough funds to provide that many meals.

Stop Hunger Now requires $0.25 for each of their fortified rice-soy meals packaged which means Sting Hunger could be limited by how much is raised for the event.

With over $38,000 of their $75,000 goal raised from about 30 different sources, and more funds being sought through corporate sponsorship and grants, MOVE submitted bill 14J137 to the Graduate Student Senate (GSS) and Undergraduate House of Representatives (UHR) for $19,440 to help pay event costs. The GSS amended the bill to $3,540 before passing it. When it went before UHR it was amended to match the GSS without discussion before it passed the House.

“We are grateful to have received funding from SGA and to know they are supportive of our event and our goal of engaging students, faculty, and staff in a service project that addresses global hunger,” said MOVE’s Vice President of Communications Robert Johnson, when asked about the effect of receiving so much less than was requested from SGA.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 842 million people, roughly one in eight, suffer from chronic undernourishment in 2011-2013. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) reports that 200 million of those are children, in addition, “Undernourishment kills more people every year than malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS combined.” In a 2011 report UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, said, “Undernourishment contributes to 2.6 million deaths of children under five each year.”

In 2013 Sting Hunger Now’s more than 100,000 meals were among the seven million to date that have gone to Haiti to aid in disaster relief.

This year, they expect their meals will be among 1 million sent to help relieve the situation in the Philippines, though Stop Hunger Now will ultimately determine which of the world’s hungry are in need of their aid.

Donations can be made through a link on that page and are displayed as a gold bar at the top of the site, well short of the $75,000 goal.

“Every dollar we receive allows us to package more meals, so we may have to scale back the number of meals we will be able to make this year, but we still expect to be able to at least package 200,000 meals and have a successful event,” Johnson said.

The event will take place in Bobby Dodd Stadium from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. next Saturday.

For more information, or to volunteer, the event website at is at stingpoverty.org/hunger.

When it comes to the modern field of medicine, the so-called War on Cancer is a daily battle in which thousands of researchers work worldwide in efforts to combat the development and growth of cancer clusters. It seems one Tech professor has done just that.

Ravi Bellamkonda is a current professor and researcher in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He and his team, rather than actually try eradicating or removing a tumor, did something revolutionary: they tried moving it, and with much success.

“Brain tumors are tough to treat not because we don’t have nasty chemicals to kill tumors, but because the tumor is always moving,” Bellamkonda said. “We were thinking about these two things, you know, how do we design something to deal with inoperable tumors and how do we deal with ways to catch this moving target, and we were always thinking about how do I stop it, how do I contain it.”

After much testing and seeing how tumors grow, replicate and move, Bellamkonda’s lab came up with the polymer nanofibers, which contain a thin film that replicates the pathway a tumor normally uses to grow. Thus, the tumor would, in essence, be able to be moved and contained in its size; however, this process took Bellamkonda and his team much time to perfect.

“There’s a certain humility when you work with the human body. Unlike airplanes, where every single rivet, screw, material, wire we designed and put it there, with the human body, we still discover processes that are critical to our function,” Bellamkonda said.

Bellamkonda and his team wanted to make sure the polymer would only aid in the transportation and containment of cancer cells and that they didn’t perpetuate growth in the tumor.

“How do you know, for example, when we design this path we’re not just making more room for the tumor to grow and not actually moving the tumor,” Bellamkonda said. “The tumor might easily say, ‘oh thank you very much, I got this space to grow now because you gave me this room!’”

This technology pushes the so-called War on Cancer to a new level where scientists may turn to not completely removing a cluster of cancer cells, but instead, focus on containing the growth.

“If I can manage a tumor and keep it to a certain, smaller size, and it’s not bothering my other functions, you know, that’s how it is,” Bellamkonda said. “Is that preferable? No. Ideally I’d like to be cancer-free and prevent it from ever coming back. But because cancers are so clever, I’m not optimistic that we’ll completely eradicate them from ever happening, it’s just tough.”

Maybe cancer can’t be fully eradicated, but that doesn’t mean one day it won’t affect our lives as it does currently.

“Ultimately what might happen is, just as we don’t view diabetes as a death sentence; just as we don’t view arthritis as a death sentence, before we getting to curing cancer, which I hope we will at some point, I think we will learn to make it irrelevant as a life threatening disease,” Bellamkonda said. “We will learn to figure out how to manage it and have a decent quality of life.”

Tech’s humanities school, the school of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC), is rebranding its Science, Technology, and Culture (STAC) degree program as simply “Literature, Media, and Communication.”  The name change will take effect in May, at the start of the next academic year.

According to Lisa Yaszek, professor in the LMC and director of undergraduate programs there, the name change is a part of broader structural changes within the STAC program and reflects the evolution of the humanities at Tech over the years.

“The name is changing and the way we organize the degree is changing,” Yaszek said. “We’re changing the unit name to be more clear the broad areas that we all work in, and also by changing the degree name it’s clear where the degree belongs, that it is part of the new humanities at Georgia Tech.”

Yaszek explained that the STAC program is the oldest liberal arts degree at Tech. According to Yaszek and the STAC website, the STAC program was founded with a focus of integrating the humanities with developments in technology and science.

“We want to wed the insights of the humanities with things we see going on in Science and Technology and Culture,” Yaszek explained.

Around the time of STAC’s inception in the early 90s, the focus of the humanities at Tech rested primarily around literary studies. At this time, digital communication as a medium of expression was still in its infancy.

Over the years, the STAC program has evolved. Yaszek emphasized that the new forms of communication, which have become so prevalent over the past few decades, have taken a place in studies of the humanities at Tech.

“We’ve grown as a multimedia department and an interdisciplinary department,” Yaszek said. The inclusion of “Media” in the name of the new humanities major reflects this change.

Another stimulus for the name change was the fact that the old name could be confusing to people not familiar with the program.

“You have to do a lot of explaining to explain what STAC really means, and people would often misperceive it, no matter how much we would talk to them,” Yaszek explained.

Yaszek related an anecdote of a student who was initially denied admission to a graduate program because the school thought he was a “Statistics” major.

In addition to the change of name, the school of LMC is also taking the opportunity to reorganize the curriculum of the program, adding “threads” which give students the ability to choose areas of study to focus in. Students will choose between literature, media, communication, social justice studies, interaction design and STAC threads within the broader LMC major. Yaszek, in conclusion, noted the importance of digital technology in the future vision of the school.

“We hope to continue growing our footprint in digital media and digital communications in general,” she said.

I’m pretty sure I saw the “Five Stages of Grief” during my two-hour kinetics test this past Tuesday.

Some people cried.

Others were shaking their heads, most likely either in denial or in some esoteric prayer.

And of course, I was in the back seat occasionally saying things under my breath that would suggest a large maritime involvement in my life.

But when I walked out the room, I felt surprisingly content with what had just happened. I felt remarkably cool, even content, with the caliber of the test I was given.

In fact, it’s upsetting when students complain that professors make their tests too difficult. Don’t get me wrong—I understand, being on the pre-medicine track, the importance of maintaining good grades. But facile classes can definitely promote a sense of carelessness about the class, especially when other challenging courses are being concurrently taken.

For example, one of the auxiliary classes that I’m taking for my major is unbelievably easy. Simply attending a review session and cramming the night before an exam, without any prior attendance to lecture, could suitably allow me to get a near perfect score on the exam.

However, some of my hardest classes have caused me to appreciate them more. For example, my transport phenomena class last semester asked a lot out of us as far as understanding the class material went. Simple memorization of formulas wasn’t what earned the grade on an exam. In studying the course and struggling  constantly with challenging material, I developed a great appreciation for the beauty that was embedded within those equations. Had my teacher not been as challenging, I would not have been as devout in comprehending the material.

If pure scholastic gain isn’t reason enough to struggle through a class to excel in an exam, then think about the real world. Most jobs will never ask someone to solve a problem that has already been solved. It’s racking one’s brain to find a creative workaround to achieve a goal. The more novel and effective a solution is, the more likely it is to get recognized and for its progenitor to get promoted.

So in turn, when professors give these difficult, challenging exams, they’re merely getting the students ready for the real world by forcing an outside-the-box thinking mentality. Even if they aren’t considered “fair,” having these robust exams forces those who are serious about their education to really rack their brains.

Even if some students argue that professors like to create a distribution by making their tests a certain difficulty, we should take it upon us as students to outperform their expectations. After all, the high-caliber education is what Tech is branded with outside the bounds of Midtown, and sacrificing the difficulty of attaining the degree won’t be beneficial for anyone.