Today was the first of several accepted student weekends at #UB. Hearing all of the stuff happening in our department gave me a real moment of pride... not just because it's an awesome school (and we are), and not just because of the awesome demos being shown off (and they were), but because of how much of UB CSE's strength comes from its students.
- Undergraduate TAs ('SAs' in our official parlance) are held as positions of prestige, with students actively competing for opportunities to mentor their peers.
- Student run organizations lie ACM and DivTech are there to support students looking for jobs or looking for community.
- Students self-organize UBHacking, a national-scale hackathon with hundreds of participants each year... and they put in the work, from planning, all the way through to hand-checking every submission for rules violations.
Put simply, UB CSE students give a s**t. They take pride in lifting each other up... and I think that's just the best thing ever.
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