As someone who got shamed for reading a book on the biology of monkeys instead of reading the Twilight series, I woke up so excited for a day that celebrates women in science (not to suggest that we can’t be in science and read the Twilight series at the same…

I’m officially graduating in the next few weeks, and as this experience is coming to an end, I thought I’d reflect on my experience as a Computer Science major at UTM as a sense of closure. …

It’s been a year since we had to shift school and non-essential work online. During this time, most tech companies went fully remote, and some are planning to continue offering remote positions. I had to start my internship remotely last year. While this saved me a lot of commute time…

My family immigrated to Canada from India when I was 11. The shift in cultures was massive for me. My English accent, vocabulary, pronunciation, and general preferences were all very different from the children at my new school in Canada. Surely, I was harassed for it. I’m sure you’re wondering…

We (the UTM White Van discord server) recently had a podcast with Dr. Michael Liut, an instructor from the Computer Science faculty at the University of Toronto in Mississauga. Along with him, we had 3 Computer Science students currently working in technology corporations, namely me, Krish (Chowdhary), and Lukasz (Dworakowski)…

About four years ago, when my 9-year-old brother mentioned the idea of talking to strangers on Discord, I strongly discouraged him. I told him that it wasn’t safe talking to people he didn’t know in person, and that there were strangers online who trapped naive people. …

During the uncertain times that the pandemic brought for us this year, plans made by students starting new internships changed quite significantly. While some students lost their internship opportunities or had their start-dates postponed, some of us got opportunities to continue with our internships… but do so remotely. I happened…