For more than a thousand years scientific thought has been dominated by the principle of determinism, the belief that the future behavior of a system can be be completely determined from its current state. That is, a problem can always be solved if the initial state is known, the rules that govern the system are known, and sufficient computational resources are available.
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Zion National Park is one of the few remaining nationally preserved and protected natural environments left in the United States. Through the years the government has poured money into the national parks to keep them almost identical to the states they were found. This past May, I and several other honors students from across the nation embarked on a fantastic adventure through the park and gained insight into its history and current maintenance.
Welcome Week 2011 proved to be a successful and exciting series of programs welcoming first-year Honors Students to the Northeastern University Honors community, despite the threat of a hurricane looming over the weekend.
