CSE Undergrad News

Hey, CSE undergrads! Prepare for your future, Tuesdays this winter! We’ve coordinated these talks on Life, Career, and Happiness After the Allen School to give you valuable advice as you prepare for life after college. 

Starting now!! Tuesday, Feb 19, 5:30-6:30pm
What a Senior PM Wishes Junior Developers Knew About Communication
Guest speaker: Herman Forrest, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft
Come learn useful strategies for collaborating at your future workplace! Your technical skills will only take you so far — to be a successful professional, you need to be an effective team member. Learn from an experienced Program Manager at Microsoft how to communicate your ideas, give and receive feedback, ask questions, and work with others. This talk should be useful for all students: new to CSE and beginning group projects, looking forward to a summer internship, or ready to start a full-time position soon.
Johnson 102. 

RESCHEDULED: Tuesday Feb 26: Git Out The Vote: Coding For Politics
Krista Davis, Allen School alum, former Google employee, political campaign worker, and Chief Architect & Founder of Groundbase
Johnson 102. 

RESCHEDULED: Wednesday Feb 27: Being Your Own Advocate in the Professional World.
Kasey Champion, UW Alum, tech professional, and Allen School lecturer
LOCATION TBD!

March 5: What You Really Need to Know in the First 5 Years of Your Career
Kasey Champion, UW alum, tech professional, and Allen School lecturer, and Kim Nguyen, Allen School Career Advisor 
Johnson 102.  

Hey, CSE undergrads! Prepare for your future, Tuesdays this winter! We’ve coordinated these talks on Life, Career, and Happiness After the Allen School to give you valuable advice as you prepare for life after college.

TOMORROW! Tuesday, Feb 19, 5:30-6:30pm
What a Senior PM Wishes Junior Developers Knew About Communication
Guest speaker: Herman Forrest, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft
Come learn useful strategies for collaborating at your future workplace! Your technical skills will only take you so far — to be a successful professional, you need to be an effective team member. Learn from an experienced Program Manager at Microsoft how to communicate your ideas, give and receive feedback, ask questions, and work with others. This talk should be useful for all students: new to CSE and beginning group projects, looking forward to a summer internship, or ready to start a full-time position soon.
Johnson 102. 

RESCHEDULED: Tuesday Feb 26: Git Out The Vote: Coding For Politics
Krista Davis, Allen School alum, former Google employee, political campaign worker, and Chief Architect & Founder of Groundbase
Johnson 102. 

RESCHEDULED: Wednesday Feb 27: Being Your Own Advocate in the Professional World.
Kasey Champion, UW Alum, tech professional, and Allen School lecturer
LOCATION TBD!

March 5: What You Really Need to Know in the First 5 Years of Your Career
Kasey Champion, UW alum, tech professional, and Allen School lecturer, and Kim Nguyen, Allen School Career Advisor
Johnson 102. 

If you are signed up on UW’s “notify” system, you should receive an email when we remove the add code if there is space available. We will set it up to make sure that works. If the course is full and we remove the add code, you will not receive a message on “Notify” unless someone drops. I hope this helps clarify. Please note, there is a glitch in the MyPlan ‘notify’ or subscribe to seat availability tool, the subscription button for some is not functioning, so you need to go through the time schedule directly.

Just a few notes for spring quarter 2019:

*Add codes for overloading: We will not be giving any add codes out to overload courses, please do not come to Quick Questions for that reason.

*One caveat: But I have a unique problem, who can help? If you have a unique situation that may require an add code to register, you can email the ugrad-advisor@cs email address, or come to Quick Questions, but just saying “It’s full I want an add code” isn’t enough. You need to have a truly special case such as 1. Your major hasn’t changed 2. You have a special per-requisite situation, etc.

*Capstones: Add codes were sent out for everyone who was pre-assigned a capstone. If you thought you should have received one, but didn’t, please email ugrad-advisor@cs with your original email received regarding the capstone assignment. If you are graduating this quarter and are CE or BSMS and need a capstone to graduate, you should also send email. Everyone else, capstone space will be opened as soon as most of the add codes have been used and if we have room. Resource-Constrained environment, 482 B is open now. Others will open as soon as we can.

*Steps to take if a class is full: Sign up on ‘notify’ and make sure your MyPlans are up to date so we can try to do a better job of forecasting interest in advance. You are welcome to attend the first week and hope to grab a space if someone drops.

*But all my favorite courses are full: Yes, courses are going to fill fast, but keep in mind students always ‘hoard’ courses and then drop them the first week.  After the first week there was space in just about every course this past winter.  We don’t like this any more than you folks do, but please be patient and most students get the courses they need. (And, please don’t hoard courses) Also, holding a course for a friend is strictly against UW policy and students will be hearing from the Registrar’s office, so please let the system work the way it’s supposed to.

*What about ML: There will be an extra large offering of Machine Learning this spring, so we should be able to accommodate seniors and juniors.

*Why don’t you just add more space: We try to adjust courses with more space as needed when possible. There are a lot of restrictions, but I promise we’ll be doing the best we can. Adding it to your MyPlan is a good way to help us project demand

*New Building – Yay! And finally, we hope you are all enjoying your beautiful new building. Please help us take good care of it and let us know if there are any issues.

Thank you for your patience!

~CSE Advising: Crystal, Jenifer, Maggie, Chloe, Leslie, Kim and Pim

Come join the TUNE House for our annual event celebrating International Women’s Day, titled “You Can’t Be What You Can’t See”. We all know by now that you don’t have to look a certain way to be a great computer scientist, or work in tech; but with seemingly few women to look up to, many young women self-select out of a technical career path before they even give it a chance.

The event will feature a keynote talk by Alice Steinglass, President at Code.org as well as lightning talks from influential speakers from both the Allen School and the larger Seattle tech community (see our website for speaker announcements!).

When: Friday, March 8th at 6pm

Where: TUNE House Kitchen

RSVP at: https://tunehouseevents.splashthat.com

Heavy appetizers and beverages will be provided. This free event is for both men AND women. Come join us along with your friends and family as we celebrate International Women’s Day! Make sure to RSVP as soon as possible to reserve your spot!

Questions? Contact Mitali Palekar mitali97@cs.washington.edu

Grand Challenges Impact Lab study abroad program is recruiting students!

Interested in a study abroad program that offers hands-on, project-based learning about Grand Challenges and social innovation that will also build your resume? Grand Challenges Impact Lab (GCIL), a UW study abroad program in Bangalore, India, is recruiting students for their Winter 2020 program!

Eligibility

GCIL is open to junior and senior undergraduate students and graduate students from any discipline. We are excited to help you create solutions that can make a difference and hope you will consider applying!

Interested?

Come to an information sessions on:
Wednesday, Feb 13 from 4-5 pm. More Hall room 229
Thursday, Feb 28 from 1:30-2:30 pm, Wilcox Hall room 264
Wednesday, March 6 from 10-11 am, Wilcox Hall room 264

Sign up for our interest email list to receive notifications about upcoming information sessions and application deadlines.

Follow us on Instagram or Twitter, or read blog posts from UW students currently in Bangalore to learn more about student experiences!

Applications will open at the beginning of Spring quarter with a priority application deadline of May 15th. Applications will be available here.  GCIL study abroad includes a 1cr Autumn-quarter course at UW Seattle, and a 15cr Winter-quarter course (approximately January 3, 2020 – March 15, 2020) in Bangalore, India. 

Questions? Contact gcil@uw.edu

Once again: Happy snow day, undergrads! This evening’s talk Git Out The Vote! Coding For Politics has been rescheduled for Tues Feb 26, 5:30-6:30pm, Johnson 102.

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Prep for your future, Tuesdays this winter! These talks by exciting guest speakers are intended to give valuable advice for CSE students as you prepare for life after college.

All talks are 5:30-6:30pm.

Next week! Feb 19: What a Senior PM Wishes Junior Developers Knew About Communication
Herman Forrest, Program Manager at Microsoft
Johnson 102. 

RESCHEDULED: Tuesday Feb 26: Git Out The Vote: Coding For Politics
Krista Davis, Allen School alum, former Google employee, political campaign worker, and Chief Architect & Founder of Groundbase
Johnson 102. 

RESCHEDULED: Wednesday Feb 27: Being Your Own Advocate in the Professional World.
Kasey Champion, UW Alum, tech professional, and Allen School lecturer
LOCATION TBD!

March 5: What You Really Need to Know in the First 5 Years of Your Career
Kasey Champion, UW alum, tech professional, and Allen School lecturer, and Kim Nguyen, Allen School Career Advisor
Johnson 102. 

Stuck in the snow and tired of sledding? Take a few minutes to fill out this survey and you could win some free CSE swag!!!

Dear all CSE Majors!

We have a favor to ask all of you. (And there is possibly some swag involved)

The Computing Research Association (CRA) is interested in career development
among students in computing fields. To that end, I encourage you to complete their
survey, which will take about 20 minutes to complete. (something to do while sitting taking a break from finals)

Your contribution to this research helps us understand factors related to academic
retention and persistence.

In exchange for your time, you will be given the opportunity to enter a raffle for
some swanky Allen School SWAG!

If you are interested in completing the survey, please follow the link below:
https://cerp.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dm0rvqb8dwyTast

Note that if you completed a survey for CRA in the past, you may have been contacted
directly by CRA this month. If you have already completed this survey, please disregard
this message.

Thank you!

CSE Advising

GREY MATTERS JOURNAL
Grey Matters is UW’s undergraduate neuroscience journal committed to making neuroscience accessible to the public. We are looking for motivated, passionate students who would like to help us accomplish our mission of science education and outreach.
Available positions for 2019-2020:

• Editing Coordinator
• Production Manager
• Design Director
• Website Manager
• Marketing Manager 
• Events Coordinator

Applications Due Feb. 22nd – Apply online.
More info: http://greymattersjournal.com/get-involved/leadership-applications/
Questions? Contact thalamus@uw.edu

PEER HEALTH EDUCATORS
Peer Health Educators are student volunteers who facilitate workshops, organize events, run health campaigns, and inspire passion for student health issues in groups all over campus. 
We are currently in the process of recruiting students to join our 2019 volunteer cohort. We strive to involve the widest variety of backgrounds, interests, and perspectives within our program as possible because diversity is necessary for widespread outreach, education, and impact.

Application Due Feb. 15 – Apply online.
More info: ts.washington.edu/livewell/phe/become-a-phe/
Questions? Contact Maya Hsu, Volunteer Coordinator phehwvc@uw.edu

We can now share the courses that we are planning on offering this summer.   Things can change, but we have a fairly high level of certainty that we will offer 331, 332, 333, 341, 344, and 351 during summer quarter 2019.

Additionally, I wanted to clear up something about 401 this spring.  If you took 401 with Hal Perkins and you want to take 401 with Ras Bodik for credit, you should sign up for 401 this spring.  The course number will change during the quarter to CSE 402 which is the new course number for Professor Bodik’s course.   Although at first it will seem you’re repeating a course, since the number will change mid-qtr, you will not actually be repeating a course and will receive credit for both.

CSE 452 prereqs have been officially changed to 451 recommended so if you are trying to sign up for that course you should be able to during registration.

And finally, if you were pre-approved for a capstone, we hope to have the add codes out by next Friday when registration begins.  We still have quite a bit of room in the two diversity capstones, CSE 482 A and B, so keep a look out for those if you’re interested.

~ CSE Advising