The ITWS Capstone II class is currently designing a new online platform that will present all local apartments available to the RPI community in a form that’s appealing to Rensselaer students. Students are invited to take a moment to anonymously complete this survey to help the class understand the properties and amenities that would best satisfy students’ off-campus housing needs.

By John Stotz, Sarah Shiang, and Medhini Mankale

In the last few weeks of the Spring Semester, The Polytechnic met with professors across three schools to learn what the transition looked like department to department. What we found, broadly speaking, was that the Computer Science and ITWS departments seemed to have transitioned most easily, while studio and lab-type courses faced the brunt of the switch to online classes.