Category: University Experience
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ECS401U Quiet Room: Final Report
Last semester, alongside lecturers and teaching staff on the ECS401U Procedural Programming module, I worked to establish a quiet room during the usually busy lab sessions. Though aimed at the needs of neurodivergent students (and informed by my own experiences of university, it was open to all students and was very well recieved. The report…
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Byte Queens
Written with Ilenia Maietta. Women have made vital contributions to computer science ever since Ada Lovelace debugged the first algorithm for an actual computer (written by Charles Babbage) almost 200 years ago. Despite this, women make up only a fraction (25%) of the STEM workforce: only about a fifth of senior tech roles and only…
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University and Friendships: Experiences of an Autistic Student
In many posts online, new students are sharing their excitement for starting at universities all over the country – but there’s also many students who are struggling, whether that be with homesickness, being in a new environment, or making friends. It’s on this latter point that I have been concerned about particularly. It seems a…