Last week, I attended Adam Shwartz’s talk about the new Cornell Tech graduate school. I found it interesting as a Cornellian, because it’s a new and rather unique part of our university, and it will be exciting to watch it develop. I have very little interest in technology in general, however, and I don’t want to pursue a degree from Cornell Tech, so the talk was less engaging for me than most Rose Cafes have been this year.

I liked Cornell Tech’s interdisciplinary approach, as well as the emphasis that Shwartz placed on the fact that students from any academic background can potentially come to Cornell Tech. As someone who is interested in health, his discussion of the Heath Tech degree and how technology could help change the field of medicine was very interesting. The Roosevelt Island campus also looks like it’s going to be really beautiful. Overall, although this talk wasn’t relevant to me, I did enjoy hearing about another part of our university.