Holding office hours, grading assignments, and helping other students with questions and class materials. This is what Min Chew’s weeks hold in her 2-3 hour labs for OSU’s CS161 course.
Min Chew, age 19, is a sophomore at Oregon State University and is majoring in Computer Science – involved not only as a student experienced with object-oriented programming in Python and C++, but is also a teacher assistant in the Computer Science classes she has taken once ago. She hopes to use her knowledge and experience to ideally work as a software engineer, as well as perhaps other options or occupations within the realm of computer engineering – as there are vast amounts of positions that coding and programming skills can provide for.
“I think I would say that knowledge is one of the hardest things in this curriculum,” Chew says, when asked about an example of the biggest difficulties as a Computer Science student – as not only is there so much knowledge to recognize and memorize, but it can be overwhelming to learn it when everyone around you is already familiar with it or has the resources for that knowledge ready.
Thinking outside the box is an integral component to Computer Science, as well as being a critical thinker. Chew took a leap of faith to find a passion in OSU, and the one she has chosen is one that she is genuinely excited to learn and practice. She is hoping to further develop her career in mobile development by making applicable real-world objects with computer and programming skills – alongside being a teacher assistant within the curriculum.
She is not only exposing herself more to concepts and being able to practice them as a result, but she is also assisting students who may be in a similar position as her, and possibly shaping more brighter and successful futures that will achieve great things.
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