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Do you want to Major or Minor in CS? Then you need S^4!To register in CS110, Problem Solving with Data Structures and Algorithms, it is required to pass PR51, also known as S^4, the Spring Structured Study Sessions. These sessions are designed to help students prepare for upper-division courses in computer science, covering fundamental CS topics such as OOP, variable scope and mutability, binary,

Do you want to Major or Minor in CS? Then you need S^4!To register in CS110, Problem Solving with Data Structures and Algorithms, it is required to pass S^4, the Spring Structured Study Sessions. These sessions are designed to help students prepare for upper-division courses in computer science, covering fundamental CS topics such as OOP, variable scope and mutability, binary, and more. Depending

Do you want to Major or Minor in CS? Then you need S^4!To register in CS110, Problem Solving with Data Structures and Algorithms, it is required to pass S^4, the Spring Structured Study Sessions. These sessions are designed to help students prepare for upper-division courses in computer science, covering fundamental CS topics such as OOP, variable scope and mutability, binary, and more. Depending

Coming up during week 5, Minerva upperclassmen will lead workshops on note-taking strategies. Come learn about why and how you should take effective notes for your Cornerstone classes and beyond to maximize your learning!The 75-minute workshop, led by Minerva upperclassmen, will be offered two times during Week 5. Capacity is limited, so please RSVP before Sunday, October 1. First come, first serv

Dear M27s, congratulations on making it through your first week of class and SSS! Your professors are impressed with your preparedness and enthusiasm! We're on a roll now so let's keep it going.A couple of reminders for those of you who attended the SSS for writing or programming this week: You can still access all the material from the sessions afterward. Review the "After the session" section of

Technical interviews for S^4 (Spring Structured Study Sessions) are being offered this summer, July 18-20. If you plan on taking CS110 this year and haven't yet passed CS51B, please register for an interview with an M25 Peer Tutor at this calendar link before July 14.Interviews will take approximately 30 minutes each. The goal of the interview is to assess your current knowledge of the S^4 topics

The Formal Analyses team is once again seeking your help. Last summer, we assembled a new dataset to use for FA and EA in-class activities by gathering data from you directly - Minerva students! We had fun analyzing this dataset in the Cornerstones with the M26s, investigating questions related to Minerva students' sleeping habits, screen time, caffeine intake, and other hobbies and interests usin

The Cornerstone surveys and S^4 survey will remain through Sun Apr 23 for students who missed them in class. Please complete the Cornerstone survey once for each of the four Cornerstone courses and provide feedback for S^4 if you participated in the weekly sessions this semester. Your responses to these surveys are completely confidential. Thank you for your time and feedback to help us improve ou

While you celebrated Quinquatria in the rotation cities, faculty have been finding various ways to honor the goddess of wisdom and justice, Minerva, at home. This includes feasts, games, competitions, and embracing the renewal of the spring season. They are excited to share their celebrations with you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfOwOIWQioQCredit to Davi (M25) for the skillful and creative vi

If you enjoy using DataCamp to grow your programming skills, the subscription to access its content and courses for free has just been renewed for another six months. The new access link for anyone with a uni.minerva.edu email is now updated on this myMinerva page:https://my.minerva.edu/academics/learning-resources/software-and-resources-minerva-students/This page contains a variety of other usefu

The academic office hours google calendars have been updated for this semester. So, in addition to the one-stop office hours spreadsheet, we also have google calendars for Professors, TAs, and Peer Tutors office hours: Cornerstone Professors Office Hours TA and Peer Tutor Office HoursWe encourage you to add these to your own Google Calendar (must access using your Minerva account) for an easy bird

As you're digging into the discipline-specific LOs in your Core and Concentration courses, I hope you haven't forgotten about the HCs! Instead, I hope you are seeing how the HCs can elevate your work products, how their applicability expands in different fields, and how they connect to your course LOs. The HCs are powerful and broadly applicable tools, but they require regular practice and feedbac

Welcome to 2023 – a new year and a new semester. This is a great opportunity to step back and reflect on the study habits that worked well last semester, and areas where you need to make adjustments. It's a fresh start! The following is a list of highly valuable resources to help you thrive academically that you may or may not be familiar with. I encourage you to review the list and get acquainted

This is a reminder about important surveys from the academic team: S^4: If you're planning to major or minor in CS, please complete this form to help organize enrolments for the Spring Structured Study Sessions, CS51B. See my original post for more information. This is due Mon Dec 12. Course surveys: The end-of-semester Cornerstone surveys will remain open until Fri Dec 16 for students who missed

Do you want to Major or Minor in CS? Then you need S^4!To register in CS110, Problem Solving with Data Structures and Algorithms, it is required to pass S^4, the Spring Structured Study Sessions. These sessions are designed to help students prepare for upper-division courses in computer science, covering fundamental CS topics such as CPU, binary, memory, OOP, variable scope and mutability, and mor

The CS Advising Center's goal is to help you navigate the CS major and minors. We encourage all of you to join the CS Portal Group to receive the latest notifications about our events.We also have a calendar for drop-in office hours, and this form for 1-on-1 advising requests. You can always find this information on our page on myMinerva.Contacts:CS Advising Lead: Prof. Lucas TambascoContact infor

This Friday, Prof Karl will lead a library research workshop that will be extremely helpful for your CCP project, in particular, the research synthesis that you are asked to produce for the Secondary Project Plan due in Week 11 (Nov 17). The workshop focuses on effective ways to do library research, including finding appropriate sources, making connections across sources and synthesizing the findi

It's official! I [Prof Terrana] will be visiting San Francisco soon — from Oct 21 to Oct 31. It will be a dream come true to meet you in person! I am planning to attend and host various events while I'm in the city, some informal and some requiring RSVPs, all of which are on the M26 Google Calendar. I hope to be able to interact with many of you during this quick trip, so please take a look and RS

Fall break is here! 🍂🍁  Your Professors hope that you can take this time for a brief reset and get ready for the next stretch of the semester. Please note that Professors are not expected to hold office hours during the break (Oct 7 - Oct 11). TAs and Peer Tutors may continue holding office hours, but you should double-check with them to confirm before attending. This note is indicated in the of

Coming up during week 5, Minerva upperclassmen will lead workshops on note-taking strategies. Come learn about why and how you should take effective notes for your Cornerstone classes and beyond to maximize your learning!The 75-minute workshop, led by Minerva upperclassmen, will be offered two times during Week 5. Capacity is limited, so please RSVP before Sunday, October 2. First come, first serv