Good Morning!
On behalf of the Association of Computing Machinery welcome back!!! We hope you guys are pumped for the new academic year and had awesome productive summers of study, research, internships and travel. If you are new to the department the ACM is a department run organization responsible for organizing awesome social, academic, and career development events to benefit you, the CS or CSE student.
Events
Here is a summary of approaching events!
Tech Talks — These are information and recruiting sessions put on by companies (always free food and prizes). Fall quarter is loaded! Imagine Cup, Tableau, Microsoft, and Google are coming up in the next two weeks! Check out http://www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/studentoutreach.html for the detailed schedule.
Welcome Event for New Majors — Monday October 4th. A call for mentors will go out soon. We hope all new students can make it!
Smoothie Day — will make its return on October 15th, stay tuned!
Career Fair — is huge!!! Every company will be there. Thursday October 28, 9am – 3pm in Atrium.
Fall Fest — largest social event of quarter will be in late october early November.
002 and 006 Rearrangent
You will notice some significant changes to layout of the two popular undergraduate labs. Don’t be alarmed, the department implemented the new design based on lab usage statistics (most noteworthy change, the addition of mobile work stations). We know change (even small) can be difficult, but we encourage you to give the new arrangements a try and we will seek out comments and feedback later in the quarter.
Coke Closet
The beloved coke closet will make its return within the first few weeks of the quarter! Stay tuned and don’t steal!!!
ACM Website
Expect some significant changes in the next few weeks to update the usability and relevance of the ACM website http://flatline.cs.washington.edu/orgs/acm/ . We hope to make the website a more central source of information for ACM events.
CSE T-shirts
You will see cat and man shirts being displayed around the department. We will be selling these and older versions at the ACM welcome event or you can contact an ACM officer with details.
Enjoy the first day of classes!
Chris Raaastad
ACM Internal Relations (aka ACM Spambot)