Mt. Gox, once the largest exchange for Bitcoin trading, filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan on February 28th. The exchange owed $63.6 million after losing almost 750,000 of its customers’ bitcoins and 100,000 of its own to fraud. Mt. Gox also filed for US Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection on March 10th to temporarily halt US […]
Author: Donald Fung
Hey everyone! I'm Donald Fung and I'm a freshmen at the Macaulay Honors College at Baruch. I am going to be majoring in Finance and minoring in Math, Quantitative Methods and Modeling, and Psychology. I graduated from Staten Island Tech last year and I'm looking forward to a good year at Macaulay Baruch!
Seven Changes to the SAT
Last year, the number of students who took the ACT, an aptitude test which largely measures knowledge acquired in school, was greater than the SAT, which measures test-taking abilities. The College Board, makers of the SAT, recently announced that in the spring of 2016, they will be changing the current format of the test to […]
An Evening with Fred Seibert and David Karp
Macaulay’s New Media Lab director, Albie Hecht, invited the founder of Frederator Studios, Fred Seibert, and the CEO and founder of Tumblr, David Karp to speak with students at the Macaulay Honors Building on December 5. The event was coordinated by Ann Kirschner, the University Dean of Macaulay Honors College, and the New Media Lab […]
