Colorado School of Mines

The article, “Is Uber Bad For The Environment In NYC,” by Ben Adler discusses the impact of the new popular form of transportation called Uber that is popping up all over the United States. Uber is believed to be both useful for humans, as well as beneficial for the environment. Some ways that Uber is beneficial for users include: Uber is cheaper and more readily available than traditional cabs, it makes it much easier for people to get by without having a car, it is becoming more appealing for…

Kane’s rise to a position as one of the richest and most powerful men in America, the episode in question sets the stage for the entire film. It succinctly describes the sudden wealth of Kane’s mother, an unexpected windfall from a deed to a silver mine…

Kelly was mine, Jordan was dad’s, Mokaluka and Cake-Dog were my brothers, and my mom sat there quietly, watching and waiting. Well of course my brother didn’t win, and I really lost badly too. Jordan was the name. I remember looking at her and thinking, ‘you silly mutt.’ “She’s my dog; nobody else's but mine...but I can share her with you guys every now and again.” my dad said with a with a wink. My dad began…

confident that a PhD degree from the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder will serve as a link between the potential and this career goal of mine. My passion to study engineering grew when I got GPA 5 out of 5 in the Secondary School Certificate examination being the only student to achieve a talent pool scholarship from my school that year. After that I got myself admitted into Notre Dame College, one of the most prominent colleges of…

As soon as he could grip a bat and throw the ball, he began to play baseball each and every day with his dad. For a few hours after school when his dad returned from work they would go outside and his dad pitched righty while Mickey batted lefty, then his grandpa would pitch lefty while he batter righty. This taught him how to switch hit. Being a tri-sport athlete Mickey kept busy and…

it. Church, made me into who I am today. Humble, relax and always willing to help in any way possible. Moving to Colorado, made it hard to connect with a church family. Everything was different. Our church back home had more generations. Churches here had elder people than younger people, so it was hard to relate sometimes. I stopped going to church after I graduated from high school. There is no reason, why I stopped going. I guess, life happened. I defiantly would like to start going back to…

More Highly Regulated Gun Control is an Effective Method of Reducing Crime Gun control generally refers to laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms. The actual definition of gun control varies greatly around the world, however, this is the most Americanized and generalized definition that I’ll stick with. Even though illegal gun trafficking is undoubtedly tied to juvenile gun violence and other crimes like drug dealing and gang…

Pro Cannabis What is cannabis? We all know it as weed, which could be defined as a psychoactive drug or medicine. Many people can give you their idea on the marijuana plant, but do they really know the benefits. There are so many economical and medical benefits to legalizing cannabis. Slowly, but surely the United States is realizing that legalizing marijuana will be beneficial to our country; twenty-three states and the District of Columbia currently have laws legalizing marijuana in some form…

Summet Entry Essay Colorado School of Mines has always been a school I’ve heard of and dreamed of, but never in a million years did I ever believe it would become a possibility. As middle school flew by and now my high school career is more than half way over, it was time to start chasing after my future. I began looking into programs to further my understanding of certain fields when I came across the Summet program offered at Mines. As I began looking more into the program and I knew I would…

from the grime covered mines that helped fuel its growth. He describes the old economy and the different occupations in each nation. United Kingdom, midlands cities like Manchester and Leeds became the industrial base. London provided the finance. Coal came from Wales. Germany became the manufacturing center and Coal came…