CSE Undergrad News

Greetings, Amazing Allen School Humans!

We have over 20 industry volunteers from companies all over Seattle signed up to help conduct mock interviews happening on Tuesday, January 29th from 6 PM – 8:30 PM! Each practice interview will consist of a 30 minute coding problem followed up by 15 minutes of feedback. This is an invaluable opportunity to get some 1:1 time with an experienced industry professional that can give you candid feedback and coaching on your current interview skills.

Sign up by 12 PM this Friday to be considered for one of the time slots: https://goo.gl/forms/ik1xfNqNorWVmBH43

There may not be space for everyone that is interested. You’ll be notified Friday evening if you’ve been assigned a time slot.

Unsure how to balance school, interviews, and life as a CSE student? You are not alone!

Join CSE Student Advisory Council on January 24th, from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM in the Gates Commons (6th floor of the Allen Center) to have an honest and inclusive discussion with CSE alumni about managing your mental health and wellness, especially with the high-pressure culture within CSE.

This is an opportunity to openly talk about mental health issues as a collective community. We will discuss the stressors that we face, ending with ways of maintaining mental health while balancing everything in life and improving our attitudes towards mental health.

RSVP here by Monday, January 21 to be guaranteed free dinner: https://goo.gl/forms/s6kehlNz8pZlJZ402

CSE SAC is committed to ensuring that our events are accessible for all students and is happy to arrange disability accommodations for students (with advanced notice). Please reach out to csesac@cs.uw.edu if you have any questions or requests. Please note that we occasionally may not be able to fulfill a specific request, but will do the very best we can to ensure you have a positive experience at our event!

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Hi CSE! It’s winter quarter, and we’re back with an event to help you get set up for your classes! Do you have any classes you don’t really know anyone in? Classes where you wouldn’t mind having more study buddies in?

Find a Study Buddy with ACM-W! Friday Jan 18, 4:30 – 5:30, CSE 403

RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/gSkTLqrSpmZthktr2 for a night of study-buddy searching with ACM-W! No pressure of any kind – this is just meant to give you an opportunity to meet people whom you could feel comfortable working with. Feel free to walk away with an idea of one study buddy, two, or as many as you want.

P. S. We will have hot chocolate and cookies at the event!

ACMW is committed to ensuring that our events are accessible for all students and is happy to arrange disability accommodations for students (with advanced notice). Please reach out to Raven Avery (our staff adviser) at ravena@cs.uw.edu if you have any questions or requests. Please note that we occasionally may not be able to fulfill a specific request, but will do the very best we can to ensure you have a positive experience at our event.

Hey Allen School Fam!

Friendly reminder that backpacks and large bags will not be allowed inside the career fairs today and tomorrow. We’ve opened up the Bill & Melinda Gates Commons (Room 691 in CSE1) for backpack storage on both days. Come by and drop off your stuff before you head off to fulfill your dreams at the HUB today.

Please be sure to check the undergrad calendar for more information on upcoming events: https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad/advising_calendar

Monday, January 14^th, 9 AM – 10:45 AM, Atrium in CSE1

Atrium in the Allen Center (CSE1)

Cray office hours

Monday, January 14^th, 11 AM – 5 PM – HUB Ballroom

Allen School Winter Recruiting Fair – Established Companies

The established company recruiting fair will be held in the HUB ballroom. The fair will be open to Allen School students only from 11 am – 3 pm. We will open the fair up from 3-5 pm to students from UW Seattle, Bothell, and Tacoma. Information about the fair is located here: www.cs.washington.edu/industrial_affiliates/meetings/2018/winter2019/studentinfo

Tuesday, January 15^th, 1 PM – 4:30 PM, Atrium in CSE1

Allen School Winter Recruiting Fair – Startup/Smaller Companies

The startup/smaller company recruiting fair will be held in the Atrium in CSE1. The fair will be open to Allen School students. Information about the fair is located here: www.cs.washington.edu/industrial_affiliates/meetings/2018/winter2019/studentinfo

Thursday, January 17^th, 3:15 PM – CSE305

Samsung info session: Samsung’s UVENTURE Program

Join the UVENTURE info session to learn more about the program!

● Date: Thursday, January 17^th

● Time: 3:15pm

● Location: Allen CSE 305

Dear CSE Students, welcome back to UW!

This is an exciting week as we open our new building to the public for the first time!  You’ll notice we’re still settling in and there is a lot of activity in the new Gates Center, but we hope you enjoy your new labs, they are beautiful!

A few start of the quarter notes:

1. CSE Ugrad SLACK Channel: Uw-cse-ugrad.slack.com now has an #asktheadvisers channel monitored by the staff advisers, so please feel free to utilize that space.  You will need to join with your @cs email address. Your posts are public and not FERPA compliant, so you should use this system for general questions only.
2. We have a career fair on Monday (1/14) and Tuesday (1/15) next week, please pay careful attention to Kim and Kay’s emails on this subject as there are some changes this year.
3. There are several feedback channels you should be aware of, first, you can always come to your CSE advising team with any course related concerns. You can also give feedback on line: https://www.cs.washington.edu/students/ugrad/give_feedback
4. The deadline to apply to graduate this winter if you haven’t already filed online is January 16th. You should go to the graduation page for all the details on filing.
5. Our advising team has moved to the Gates Center, most of you have found us already, but just a reminder in case you haven’t yet. Some of the building is still under construction, but the first floor (your floor!) is open for business.
6. We have a team of 7 peer advisers who would love to talk to you more about courses, extracurricular opportunities, and any other advising questions you might have. They are at all quick question sessions and at the advising front desk from 10-12 and 1-5 most days. Stop by and say hi!
7. And finally, hopefully you are all getting into the courses you need. We expect there will be some drops in the next few days so sign up on Notify if you’re still trying to get a space. If you are not signed up for any CSE courses, or need a course to graduate this quarter, please get in touch with the advising team so we can try to help you out.

HuskyTech has officially launched their annual Mentorship Program. CSE students are invited to apply to this unique opportunity to get hands on mentorship, and insights from a dedicated industry professional in Software Engineering, Data Science, Product Management, and UI/UX Design from leading tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Zillow, etc.The program will span over Winter Quarter for 3 evenings.

Dates: January 16th, January 29th, and February 19th

Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 P

Location: HUB Lyceum

HuskyTech will be facilitating discussions between mentors and mentees to teach students about navigating the workplace, succeeding in industry, and building their tech careers. Seize the opportunity to network with over 120 ambitious students and 60 industry leaders in Seattle from this program.If you would like to apply, here is a link for the application: www.tinyurl.com/HTMentee.

Application Deadline: January 10th at 11:59 PM.
Learn more on HuskyTech’s website: www.uwhuskytech.com/programs

Please be sure to check the undergrad calendar for more information on upcoming events: https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad/advising_calendar

Tuesday, January 8^th, 4:30 PM – ECE105

Recruiting 101

This is a great presentation to attend if you’re feeling a little lost on job hunting basics. Your career specialist, Kim Nguyen, will help you understand recruiting timelines, how to navigate the career fair and follow up with recruiters and give you some ideas on where to focus your time outside of class so you can put together a resume that you are proud of.

Thursday, January 10^th, 3 PM – 5 PM – CSE1 Atrium

Resume Workshop

This is one of our most popular events every quarter! Get your resume critiqued by recruiters and industry professionals from a variety of tech companies, big and small. You can go through the feedback process as many times as you’d like to get different perspectives. Bring plenty of copies of your resume!

Thursday, January 10^th, 6:00 p.m. – ECE105

NVIDIA tech talk

SIGN UP: bit.ly/nvtalkuw19

SPEAKER: Scott Ricketts

Manager of TensorRT Software

TITLE: High Performance Deep Learning Inference on GPUs w/ NVIDIA TensorRT

There will be a raffle as well as food and beverages.

Friday, January 11^th, 3:30 PM – ECE125

Recruiting 101

This is a great presentation to attend if you’re feeling a little lost on job hunting basics. Your career specialist, Kim Nguyen, will help you understand recruiting timelines, how to navigate the career fair and follow up with recruiters and give you some ideas on where to focus your time outside of class so you can put together a resume that you are proud of.

First Year Programs is currently recruiting for our First-year Interest Group (FIG) Leader and Orientation Leader (OL) student positions!

The FIG program is looking for students from all departments who are UW-Seattle undergraduates with strong organizational skills and a genuine interest in working with freshmen as they face the challenges and opportunities presented to them as new students.

Orientation Leaders play a vital role in the orientation process, working closely with new students and their families on a wide variety of topics including academics, student involvement, housing options, and more. Orientation Leaders work during summer quarter and are paid 30-40/hrs per week.

Leadership in FYP Workshops: (All workshops will be held in MGH 120)

• Tuesday 1/8 at 3:30 pm
• Thursday 1/10 at 2:30 pm
• Monday 1/14 at 5:00 pm
• Wednesday 1/16 12:30 pm
• Wednesday 1/23 9:30 am
• Friday 1/25 4:00 pm

The application deadline is due Sunday, January 27^th!

Applications are available online at fyp.washington.edu/apply and any questions can be directed to fypadmin@uw.edu.

Best,

The First Year Programs Team

First Year Programs
Undergraduate Academic Affairs / University of Washington

Box 352825
120 Mary Gates Hall, Seattle, WA 98198-2825
206.543.4905  / fypadmin@uw.edu /  fyp.washington.edu