CSE Undergrad News

We will leave this blog up for reference, but note that this is being retired and replaced by the new EdStem discussion board that all students should have access to moving forward. If you have any questions, please reach out to the Ugrad Advising team.

With the end of the quarter coming up, Student Advisory Council (SAC) is releasing a Thank You form where you can share your gratitude for any CSE student, faculty, or staff who has helped you this year! 🥰 We encourage you to use any creative outlet – be it writing, pictures, memes, or videos – to brighten someone’s day. With quarantine craziness at an all-time high, expressing your gratitude is sure to put a smile on someone’s face. 😊

You can fill out the form here through June 12th (Please note that you must be logged into your CSE account to access this form).

Happy week 10!
~ SAC

Thanks to everyone who came out to our first ever CSE’s Got Talent live event – it was a huge success! You can watch some of the talents that were showcased earlier as well as admire the talents of more CSE community members who weren’t showcased live here in the virtual museum: https://sites.google.com/cs.washington.edu/csesgottalent2020

SAC is hosting another event this Friday (5/29) at 6-7pm (PST) – a panel discussion on failure and vulnerability. You’ll get to hear from and converse with six distinguished leaders and faculty from the Allen School, as they talk about their experiences with failure and vulnerability. Our panelists are:

RSVP here for the Zoom link: http://tinyurl.com/beneaththesurface20

We hope you’ll join us!
~ SAC

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What is the SAC? We are a CSE student-run organization and our aim is to foster a positive learning environment for our peers by hosting events and discussion forums. We use input from you, the students, to guide our conversations with staff and faculty which ultimately lead to improvements in the school.

Hey everyone!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Digital Card Design Contest! Congratulations to the winners, Isaac Pang, Chandra Burnham, and Lucy Jiang! 

You’ll be able to download their submissions here (please be sure to be logged into your UW account). Their card templates contain incredible pieces of art and creativity, so be sure to download their cards and spread the love!

Have a fantastic three-day weekend! Good luck with the remaining weeks! Stay strong, we’re almost there!

~Amigos @ SAC

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What is the Student Advisory Council (SAC)? We are a CSE student organization that advocates for undergraduates and builds community. We gather your input and spark dialogues to enable change throughout the Allen School. Something on your mind? Feel free to email questions/comments/concerns to csesac@cs.washington.edu

Join SAC for an evening of open and honest conversation surrounding failure and vulnerability.  We hope to decrease the stigma our department faces regarding failure and vulnerability through a panel of highly respected people and through small group and anonymous discussions afterwards. We also hope that you will reflect on your own relationships with failure and vulnerability in this event. 

You’ve probably heard multiple times that failure is a great opportunity and it isn’t something to be afraid or ashamed of. However, CSE has developed a culture of being extremely ambitious, and handling failure among a community of such high-performing peers is particularly difficult.  Our high-achieving community can lead to lots of us feeling inadequate and that we don’t belong here. Often in CSE we overhear people talking about their accomplishments, but rarely do we talk about our experiences with failure (and, shocking as it may be, every single one of us has failed at some point).

Have your own stories of struggle, failure, and vulnerability? We would love to hear them!  Anonymously share your stories and experiences here: https://forms.gle/nLy9Xtdqibdy16GC8

Event Details:
Date and Time: Friday,  May 29th, 6-7pm
Location: Zoom link will be sent out to all who RSVP
RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/beneaththesurface20
Open to all CSE students, staff, and faculty.

Happy week 8 – keep up the good work and finish the quarter strong! We’re really excited for this event and hope you’ll join us 
~ Student Advisory Council (SAC)

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What is the SAC? We are a CSE student-run organization and our aim is to foster a positive learning environment for our peers by hosting events and discussion forums. We use input from you, the students, to guide our conversations with staff and faculty which ultimately lead to improvements in the school.

Not sure if you want to get involved in research? Want to know more about research opportunities in CSE? Learn more about how to get involved in research at SAC’s Ugrad Research Panel!

Doing research is a great way to harness your technical skills, apply your knowledge from classes and build great relationships with faculty/other fellow researchers in the department. We’ll have 4 accomplished undergraduate researchers coming from different research fields who can help answer any questions you have on what undergraduate research is, pros/cons of doing research, pursuing graduate school, what the undergraduate research experience is like in the Allen School. And most importantly, you can ask how to get involved!

Event details:
Date/time: 5/25 at 6pm
RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/y8lau29g
Zoom link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/92815219021

Note that this event is geared towards undergraduates with no or limited experience with research, but everyone is welcome to come.

Hoping to see you there!
~ SAC

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What is the Student Advisory Council (SAC)? We are a CSE student organization that advocates for undergraduates and builds community. We gather your input and spark dialogues to enable change throughout the Allen School. Something on your mind? Feel free to email questions/comments/concerns to csesac@cs.washington.edu

The Student Advisory Council (SAC) presents the first ever “CSE’s Got Talent,” a community showcase where we’ll be showcasing talent and hobbies in all forms–singing, baking, comedy, crafting, knives, and more! Come cheer on your Allen School students, staff, and faculty! You may learn about some secret identities…

Event Details
Date and Time: Tuesday, May 26th, 6-7pm (Pacific Time)
Zoom link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/99793634331
RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/csesgottalent20

We encourage you to invite your family and friends to cheer you and your classmates on. We ask that you please send them the RSVP form so that we can let them in from the Zoom waiting room.
Given COVID-19, we’ll be hosting this event in two ways:

• Live event on Tuesday, May 26, 6-7pm hosted by MCs, for recordings of performance-related activities.
• Virtual museum for non-performance activities and to showcase what was live streamed for people who cannot make it. This will go live the weekend before the live event, and will stay up for your perusal.

We hope to see you there!
~ Friendos from SAC
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Questions? Contact: savannay@cs.washington.edu
What is the Student Advisory Council (SAC)? We are a CSE student organization that advocates for undergraduates and builds community. We gather your input and spark dialogues to enable change throughout the Allen School. Something on your mind? Feel free to email questions/comments/concerns to csesac@cs.washington.edu  

Hey Homies

Here is the first issue of our SAC newsletter! There’s info on upcoming events, recipes, and an original comic?! Check it out!

~Your pals @ SAC

(P.S: SAC Newsletter Spring. The PDF has clickable links )

Get ready to put some of your awesome art and design skills to good use!

Announcing the Digital Card Design Contest from the Student Advisory Council (SAC)! This is an opportunity for you to creatively design a card for others to write gratitude letters to friends, other students, or faculty! We hope that this will be a good chance for y’all to express your appreciation and gratitude to one another and make this rather desolate-feeling quarter feel a little less lonely. 🙂

Your card template submissions can be submitted here up to May 20th! (Please note that you must be logged into your CSE account to access this form).

We understand not all of us have access to tablets or printers, so feel free to use whatever medium suits you best. If you’d like, you can submit more than one card template! Once the submissions close, your card template(s) will be available for everyone in the CSE community to download! Between May 21st and May 24th end of day, you will be able to vote for your favorite card template, with the top three voted submissions winning a piece of Allen School swag (when campus opens again)! 

Have an awesome Week 7!

~Your pals @ SAC

Want to meet other students in the Allen school? Are you tired of the view from your bedroom window? Check out what your Allen school peers are up to in quarantine and share some details about your life with Student Advisory Council’s (SAC) Around the Allen School journal! 🗺

You will be grouped with 5 other people, with each person writing a short introduction about themselves in your group’s journal slide deck. We’ll provide starter templates to make the process easy and convenient for you!

Sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/sacaroundtheworld
Complete journal example: https://tinyurl.com/y85xpzzm

Please let us know if you have any questions/comments/concerns!

~ SAC

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What is the Student Advisory Council (SAC)? We are a CSE student organization that advocates for undergraduates and builds community. We gather your input and spark dialogues to enable change throughout the Allen School. Something on your mind? Feel free to email questions/comments/concerns to csesac@cs.washington.edu