Last week for the Rose Cafe, Adam Shwartz spoke of the Cornell Tech Graduate School. Shwartz mentioned that in addition to a competitive tech program, the students will have to supplement it with lots of courses in the humanities. I could appreciate this point as both my siblings did a computer science major in college and they often mention that they wish they took more courses in a different field. For example, my sister does tech for a marketing company and she wishes she had taken a marketing course in college to more effectively relate her work in technology to marketing tactics. She said that knowing how to code and what not, does not mean anything if you do cannot understand the audience for the company you work for, so for Cornell Tech to take on this issue and attempt to bridge the gap between tech and other fields will make it a pioneer in its work.

I am also excited to see how Cornell Tech approaches and handles rapidly changing technology, as it is difficult to imagine what it would be like even 10 years into the future. 10 years ago, we did not have well developed Facebook, Twitter, iPhone, etc and no one could have imagined how ingrained these things are in our everyday lives. I was to see Cornell Tech be the leader in innovation and the products that we will use day-to-day in the next decades to come.