Meet Lavanya, an Active Member in Fall 2020 and now WIC Intern! — Our Women in Computing active members are fabulous, intelligent people, so we’re doing member spotlights for you all to get to know them better! First up, meet Lavanya! Introduce yourself! I’m a sophomore from Warren College majoring in Computer Science. Currently, I’m in India and that’s something different from everyone. But other…

An in-depth walkthrough of WIC’s latest summer side project, from UI redesign to fresh implementation using ReactJS — Hello! We are Women in Computing at UC San Diego, one of several UCSD organizations dedicated to serving computing students, but specifically the female presence in computing. …

Celeste Ng’s uncovering of the injustices in America — Little Fires Everywhere is the first of two Celeste Ng novels I have had the pleasure of reading and both times I have been blessed by Ng’s gift to craft plotlines so detailed, so vivid, you forget that the tears streaming down your face are for fictional characters. It is…

My journey of falling in love with a sport and myself. — I’m not your typical athlete. My lack of hand-eye coordination, for lack of a better word, is pathetic. Actually, it’s practically nonexistent. I vividly remember joining my city’s soccer team in elementary school and being never passed the ball due to my lack of aim in passing it to my…

What I wish knew about the SWE Internship Hunt. — As another season of Software Engineering Internship hunting ramps up during the COVID-19 pandemic, many students in technology majors and I have been absurdly stressed about landing internships for Summer 2021. Indeed, as a computer science/computer engineering/cognitive science/data science/whatever science major, an internship at a tech company is the gateway…

Find out about the incredible applications the teams created over our 10-week software engineering program. — Women in Computing Summer Dev is a 10-week long program that allows students to work in teams and build a real-world project. Due to the far-reaching effects of COVID-19 and its impact on industry hiring, we wanted to give small teams of undergraduate students the space to gain relevant technical…

How fiction taught me about the world’s harsh realities — “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” — Joyce Carol Oates D uring, my middle school years, I did just that. Every Saturday starting in 6th grade, I didn’t sleep in. I’d pull down my dad’s comforter and drag his…