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Steve S.

Steve Sharer is a Security and Risk Analysis major and an overall good guy. He brings Onward State readers enticing posts such as "Question of the Day" and "Campus Explorer" and will continue to do so until he becomes the President of the United States of America in 2024.

Google’s Streetview Comes To College, Beaver and Atherton

Google’s impressive and sometimes invasive Streetview imagery has come to downtown State College. The imagery was collected by one of these vehicles with a 360 degree camera mounted on the roof. From what I can tell by the shadows, the general green color of the flora, and the lack of people on the street, the […]

Question of the Day: Snowpocalypse

I just came in from shoveling 22 inches of snow from my driveway in Pennsylvania’s friendly Commonwealth to the south and I was wondering: How much snow do you have at home? .Also, tell us what town/zip code you are in. .

Sparky Award Submissions

Early December is upon us, and the videos for the Sparky Award we talked about earlier this semester have been submitted. One intrepid section of English 202C produced a slew of videos for the contest. Here’s what is at stake for the winners of the contest: Top winners of the international competition receive a $1000 […]

Making Music With iPhones

When University of Michigan students decided that normal musical instruments were too boring, they looked to the almighty iPhone for inspiration. A class that focuses on designing musical instruments on the iPhone platform will be culminating in a concert on December 9, 2009. Students harnessed the technology inside the diminutive device, such as the microphone, […]

Improving the SRTEs

It’s that time of year again… time for SRTEs. The dreaded and boring Student Rating of Teacher Effectiveness is making its rounds throughout classrooms across Penn State. The program was started all the way back in 1985, just about the time some of us college students were thinking about being born. According to a document […]

Renting Is the New Buying

Ever think about renting textbooks versus buying them? Services are popping up all over the internet offering all your textbooks on a rental basis. Most sites allow users to rent the textbooks on a 60-day, quarterly (~85 days) or per semester (~125 days) basis. The most popular service with the cleanest and simplest interface is […]

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