STEM

The reality is that STEM seems to dictate our careers, our livelihoods and therefore our academics as well. Without these disciplines, I can’t imagine how any of us would exist. But without humanities, arts and social sciences, I don’t think our chances of existence would be any higher.

Adapting to work with AI should not be a punishment; rather, it should develop the way we perceive technology’s place in the classroom. 

Python is accessible. It is inclusive, easy to learn and powerful. It has created more jobs than it has automated. It has a strong place in the modern economy, on campus and in my heart. Thank you, Python.

It seems as though we are only concerned about how computers speak, but not how they see and listen. This leads me to believe that our worries might be more correlated with our imagination than the potency of the technology itself.

As I sit down to write this, though, none of those drafts feel right. There’s so much to say yet also nothing at all. How do you encapsulate four years of your life in 850 cohesive words?

When I look back at my college experience, it’s the smaller activities I remember. I was enjoying talking with my friends; making a sweater on the Glade; baking a cake with my roommate for no other reason than I wanted to eat some cake. I was enjoying my life.

I am a very different person from freshman me. I am a natural continuation of freshman me. I am because of you.

Abel Birosh, campus freshman majoring in math and computer science with a minor in public policy, is running for ASUC Senate with Elevate Cal on the platforms of STEM advocacy, increasing access to job opportunities and internships, improving South Asian representation and advocating for international and out-of-state students.

Kenneth Ng, a second-year physics and math major with minors in public policy and climate science, is running for ASUC Academic Affairs Vice President, or AAVP. His platforms are rekindling relationships with academic and identity groups on campus, student-centered policies and forging a new future for academics at UC Berkeley.