My Experience at Johns Hopkins UniversityAs a student at Johns Hopkins University, I helped Jeremy Rauch found (in spring of 1996) and nurture the Johns Hopkins Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, and I strongly promoted peer teaching during my final year. I also was an initial member of the Committee for Undergraduate Computer Science (CUCS), which was initiated by Russell Schwager (also in spring of 1996) and later merged with the ACM. The ACM chapter has progressed significantly in the past year, and CUCS has grown to be a major force within the department---just read their September 2 letter and the response it generated! On November 15, 1997, after weeks of trying to hold regular practices, I represented Johns Hopkins University in the 1997 ACM Mid-Atlantic Regional Programming Contest. ``Team 1'' for Johns Hopkins, which consisted of Dave Tucker, Nehal Munshi, and me, came in sixth among the 115 teams that participated, thus carrying on the Johns Hopkins tradition of just missing the cutoff. (If we had finished that convex hull problem in time, which we almost did, we surely would have made fourth place and advanced to the international competition.) After playing the violin with the Everett Youth Symphony (Everett, Washington) for many years, I joined the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra and participated all three years I was in Baltimore. I am not yet a member of an ensemble at Cornell, but I plan to change that. |