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Therefore, this website is no longer updated! Please visit our new website for up to date information about the club! Don’t hesitate to email us at wics@bu.edu if you have any additional questions.
It is nearing the end of the Spring semester, which means it is about time we start thinking about club events for next year! For next year, we have two E-Board positions open — Secretary and Treasurer. WiCS roles are pretty fluid, so you could do whatever you want (like organize events, programs, tours, workshops, collaborations with other clubs, CS department) as part of the E-Board. Open to BU students only.
Follow this link to the application form. The application is due on Friday, April 28th. We will get back to your within a week.
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We are happy to announce the rollout of our monthly newsletter. In the newsletter, we will share club updates, schedule, technology news and opportunities that companies or other students share with us.
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Health Insurance 101
Date – Thursday March 24, 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Venue – Hariri Seminar Room, MCS (directions here: http://www.bu.edu/hic/directions/)
Women in CS is hosting a session on one of the basics of “adulting” – getting health insurance. All undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to attend – whether you want to get a headstart on learning about this or are considering getting insurance. Our guest speaker will be Tina Wells, Director of Health Benefits & Insurance for the City of Boston. Tina will cover terms to know and information to have before you look at insurance plans, as well as answer questions you might have.
athenahealth will be holding a technical talk on Big Data in Healthcare in partnership with Women in Computer Science on Tuesday February 9th 5:15-6:15 pm. As with all of our events, all students are welcome to attend this event.
The event will be held in the seminar room of the Hariri Institute for Computing in the MCS building. Pizza and refreshments will be provided.
If you’re interested in attending, please RSVP below:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TcwoQsaQcGAYn3tDT2IGu8BRHZO4OOBY4aXiIYwA5Uc/viewform
If you have any questions, please contact us at wics@bu.edu.
Women in CS, Women in Math, and BUILDS are co-hosting a “Cracking the Coding Interview Workshop” series this semester. Each week, a faculty member and/or graduate student will help us tackle the tough technical questions during interviews for internships and other technical positions. We’ll be going through sections of the “Cracking the Coding Interview” book by Gayle McDowell.
The third session will be presented by Cody Doucette and will be on Chapter 2 – Linked Lists. This session will be held on Thursday October 22nd from 5-6:30 pm in MCS B08. We will be going over questions 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, and 2.5 from the book. Refreshments will be provided courtesy of the CS department.
Please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/a/bu.edu/forms/d/1Pi1sCADn9Am8LqRJBb81RCufjkSv6EhUNrWYDWa4hpg/viewform
If you have any questions, please contact either Sridevi Suresh sridevis@bu.edu, Sean Smith swsmith@bu.edu, or Jacqueline You jgyou@bu.edu.
Women in CS and Women in Math are co-hosting a “Cracking the Coding Interview Workshop” series this semester. Faculty and graduate students will help you tackle the tough technical questions during interviews for internships and other technical positions. Each week, we’ll go through sections of the “Cracking the Coding Interview” book by Gayle McDowell.
We’re going to kick off the series with a Q&A panel of students who will be discussing their past internship/job experiences in both industry and academia. This first session will be held on September 29 from 5-6 pm in MCS 148. This workshop series is being generously supported by the Computer Science department.
Please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/a/bu.edu/forms/d/1X5lM3v-axftnhqG7NCwWL3v2uCgy4JesNThbinsdnoE/viewform
If you have any questions, please contact either Sridevi Suresh sridevis@bu.edu or Jacqueline You jgyou@bu.edu.
…And we’re back! We hope you all had a fantastic summer! WiCS will be having our first meeting of the year on next Tuesday, September 8th at 7pm in MCS 148. Anyone who is interested in CS is welcomed to come and join us for some refreshments and information on upcoming events for the year.
We hope to see you there!
Boston University Women In Computer Science 