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VT thanks the world.

Thoundands of Hokies, young and old, gathered on Virginia Tech’s Drillfield to spell out a special message for the world.

(Ground photo by Ivan Morozov)

(Helicopter photo by Michael Kiernan)

(Ground photo by Kim Peterson)

(Photo from Burruss Hall by Ty Brady)

(Aerial photo by Matt Gentry)
Virginia Tech’s Center for Geospatial Information Technology (CGIT) helped to assure the geospatial coordinates [...]

Hokie Commencement


Happy Graduation Class of 2007

This is the day that you put in the back of your mind, and hope that you arrive to it in one piece. It’s a day where everything comes together. The realization that you never have to sit in a classroom again. Just when you thought that your scholastic adventures were over, they were just [...]

Props to PB

I just wanted to thank Roland Lazenby, Neal Turnage, Kevin Cupp, Courtney Thomas, Tricia Sangalang, Anthony Della Calce, Omar Maglalang, Alex Rickabaugh, Tim Leaton, Jon Atwood, and every else who helped keep Planet Blacksburg up to date during this grieving process.

This community is stronger than ever, and our student population will grow and mourn together. [...]

SketchUp Your World

Google Earth gets better every day.

With the help of their acquisition of SketchUp, a 3-D modeling program, Google aims to get every major college campus into their Earth browser. Students are encouraged to draw their campus–not just a bland, geometric box outline of the buildings, but detailed, photo-matched 3-D visualizations of them.
This looks very hard [...]

I Graduated… Two Hours Late

As a journalism student, I am accustomed to deadlines.
But when you are awaiting the results of a final exam grade that will determine whether the envelope you receive in a few weeks contains a diploma, or a letter welcoming you back to Blacksburg for an extra semester, deadlines have a new meaning.
This past Friday, as [...]