Want to get better at technical interviews? Leetcode Legends is a group that will meet every Tuesday and Thursday for group practice sessions. This week (March 7 and 9), CSSS team members will be hosting an introductory session to Leetcode from 6-7 pm at ICICS 005 for students starting out with interview preparations. All skill levels are welcome!

The event will run in a hybrid model. Current Zoom link here!

Stay cozy and stylish with Computer Science hoodies! Show off your love for UBC Computer Science with these high-quality hoodies, now available at a discounted price of $40! Hurry and grab yours before the offer ends on 13th February (or while stocks last) at the Cube (ICCS 021). Don’t miss out on this limited time offer!

Check out our course reviews page too! Each course review is an entry to win 50% off a CSSS hoodie ($22.50 value) or one of five $10 AMS gift cards! Maximum five entries per person. Raffle will take place at the end of the 2022W2 term.

Hello CS folks!

We hope you had a wonderful winter break and are ready for the upcoming term!

We were thrilled to see you on campus last term after two years of online learning. Unfortunately, Covid-19 restrictions mandated us to adjust many of our event offerings. Nonetheless, many great things have happened that we would like to share with you. 🥳

In September, we started the new school year with the CSSS First-Year Welcome. Our department’s professors, Patrice Belleville and Kemi Ola, kindly joined forces with several student speakers (Eric Yan, Cyrus Kalafchi, Leonard Wang, Maja Evans, Henry Huynh, Vedika Seth) to tackle first-year questions. This virtual event is also the first time we tried out a Zoom breakout room panel where each room had a speaker talking about a different topic. 🎓

Then, as we moved into October, we had our first offline event, the Halloween social👻. Lots of you showed up to show off your spooky outfits👹 and the opportunity to meet everyone since the Cube’s reopening!

In November, we had our professional photoshoot event which is, non-surprisingly, extremely popular (> 100 attendants)📷.

Finally, in December, we had two events happening on the same day (Dec. 2), the Research Night and Movie Night. For the Research Night, we invited a guest panel consisting of Prof. Joanna McGrenere, A. Finn Hackett, Eric Yan, Dryden S. Wiebe, Rebecca Lin, Matthew Tang to introduce the undergraduate research options in UBC CS. Immediately after that, we ended the term by showing the Academy Award-winning movie Parasite🎞.

We were not slacking off in Cyberspace either. In fact, our online community has grown enormously in the last four months. The CS Discord doubled from around 600 members in the summer to 1500 members! Aside from that, we hosted the well-received CSSS Summer Olympic in addition to regular game nights during the summer break. In this event, we celebrated the Tokyo Olympics by organizing nerdy events that all CS students love. Yes, coding competitions and keyboard typing challenges ⌨🖱.

For those of you who frequent our website, you may have noticed changes to the tutor page and the addition of a new clubs page. We have many more cool features coming✨

As we move into the new semester, we have many events lined up. You should already see Maple CTF (Capture the Flag/White hat hacking/Security competition) occurring from January 21 - 28. This is part of a week-long event called CS Week which we hope will become the defining event of UBC CS. Stay tuned for more information. 🤩

We are announcing the new Virtual Lounge Coordinator initiative, of volunteers who will be staffing the CSSS discord server (found here: https://discord.gg/bYszFS) on a regular basis. They will be present in voice chat during the duration of their shifts for casual chat and to answer questions about the CS community.

Current schedule:

Mon (8pm-9pm) -Dhairya

Tues (8pm-9pm) -Ethan

Wednesday (8pm-9pm) -Vaishnavi

Thurs-Fri (8pm-9pm) -Dhairya

Hope to see you then!

I hope you all are having fun during the quarantine, we’ve set up a Minecraft server for people to enjoy (it is actually up at all time so feel free to hop in):

192.99.44.26:25578

There is also a discord channel if people are interested: https://discord.gg/mJT3GYN

Finally, feel free to tell us any other games you are interested in playing, maybe we can host a session!