Wonderful program here at SJSU. We
look forward to welcoming you to SJSU.
Whether it's
most probably virtually in the fall and
then in person
in the spring. So I'm going to talk a
little bit about F1 immigration
regulations.
I know a lot of you are more of an
expert than I am sometimes. You do so
much reading on this,
but I just want to review some of
what has happened
and evolved because of COVID-19.
So if some of you are here in the United
States, you may be aware
that F1 immigration regulations normally
limit the number of online courses that
international students can take during
an academic semester
under normal circumstances. However, due
to COVID-19 this past spring
SJSU courses went online and the student
exchange visitor program
allowed for an exception, allowing online
classes,
and students to maintain their F1 status
as long as
SJSU was able to share our mode of
instruction.
So as you're aware and has been
mentioned SJSU
has determined that for Fall 2020
the mode of instruction will be mostly
online with some hybrid classes.
We are awaiting further guidance from
student and exchange visitor program
regarding
online coursework in the fall. I'm pretty
sure that they will approve it.
I'm hopeful for that. However, for those
of you
who are abroad, it's a little bit different.
So you have been admitted, you should
have received an
I-20 from our admissions department
with a start date of August. So that's
not a huge problem.
What I encourage all of you to do is to
enroll in online classes
for Fall 2020. Now your I-20 will have
the August start date.
However, it is highly unlikely that you
will be able to enter the United States
in time for the start of courses
in August. So the question that comes up
frequently from our admitted students is,
"I can't get a visa for Fall
2020, the embassies are shut down."
I know that
China and India have opened up for visa
appointments. However,
the appointments are from what
I'm hearing, China is sometime
late July / August with a possibility of
cancellations. India i've heard October /
November. So it's unlikely that you will
make it in time
for the fall. Which is not a problem.
You can enroll in your classes
outside of the country. You do not need
to maintain F1 status when you're
outside of the country if you're not
in F1 status. So just remember that
you're bound by immigration regulations
when you are actually in the United
States. Now for those of you who have
paid the SEVIS fee for your I-20,
don't worry about it. We can always do a
SEVIS deferral.
So defer your start date of the I-20
to January
2021. It would not be an admissions
deferral you would actually enroll
in your classes online from abroad.
If you have paid the DS-160 application
fee and for some reason your visa
appointment keeps getting postponed and
delayed,
be aware that that application fee is
good for up to one year.
Okay, another burning question that we've
had from our students as well, "What
happens if i take my courses online from
my home country in Fall
2020? When will I be eligible for CPT?"
So the rules for CPT are you need to be
enrolled full time for one academic year
in
F1 status in order to be eligible for
CPT. So the F1 clock will start when
you actually
enter the United States hopefully in
Spring 2021.
So if you take a full-time load, which is
nine units each semester
in the Spring. Summer is
optional terms. So you do not need to
take any units. However, if you're eager
to get to your CPT sooner, you can enroll
full-time in the summer as well.
Which is six units in the summer, so by
Fall
2021, you would be eligible for CPT.
Our offices compiled a list of
frequently asked questions
for new students based on the
circumstances presented by COVID-19.
The link is on this page and you can see
it on our website.
You can find it under the resources page
or under the new students tab. I
encourage you to review this page
frequently.
We will update as we learn more.
So just review this information.
If you have any further questions, feel
free to email our office at
internationaloffice@sjsu.edu. We respond to you
pretty quickly
and we'll follow up with you. Okay,
We can go back to the slides.
So just very quickly, "How will International
Student Scholar Services support me if I
start my
program outside of the United States?"
Just to let you know, we do have a
population of over
3,000 matriculated international students
at
SJSU. We have another 2,000 who are an OPT
or STEM OPT.
So we have quite a vibrant campus.
We will continue to support you
virtually. So we do have a program which supplements
the graduate student orientation
and the department orientation which you
will have for your specific department,
called Global Spartan Welcome.
It's really just designed for you to
connect you with our staff with other
international students, our global
leaders,
and to help you navigate the cultural
transitions and to learn more about
maintaining your F1 status.
Global Spartan Welcome will be virtual
in Fall 2020 for everyone.
If you are in the United States, we have
the first program that's listed on this
slide. For those of you who will be
abroad, we will have a special
program for you, but it's really
important that you actually register
for this program. We will be
communicating with you about
Global Spartan Welcome in July. So look
out for that
email from International Student and
Scholar Services.
Finally, we will continue to support
you
beyond Global Spartan Welcome we will
offer a lot of
events in August and September. We will be offering virtual
workshops to help you with strategies
for online learning.
Life as a global spartan et cetera, et
cetera.
I think what is most important at
this point is for me to pass it on to
our panelists who can tell you a little
bit more about their experience
being a global spartan in the computer
science department.
So i'll go ahead and pass it over to our
first panelist.
Deepti. Hi! i'm Deepti.
So I recently graduated from MSCS
in Fall 2019. So since then
I recently joined Amazon as a Software
Developer
Engineer, in the Alexa Team.
So I mean my experience with SJSU has
been very exciting
and enriching. Basically, I got to
be a part-time student assistant,
at the same time i got a lot of
opportunities to you know participate in
hackathons and attend useful tech
workshops.
Yeah, I mean I'm really passionate
about
AI and Data Science, but at the same time
I also like to you know focus on the
fundamentals like system level
programming and
algorithms and designs. I think all
these helped me
you know be what I am today. So yeah,
happy to answer your questions.
Hi everyone! My name is Aniket and I was
a fall student in 2018 in the Computer
Science department.
My experience when at SJSU was really
good. I got the opportunity to work as a TA
Instructor.
So CS department is not only focusing on
your technical skills, but you also get
to learn
the soft skills. So working as a TA, I had the opportunity to interact with
students
and teach them the courses. Other than
that, I worked at Amazon Lab126 in the
summer.
So just to tell you about that. There are
so many opportunities in the Bay Area.
If you are looking for summer internship
and that's the best part about the
location of San Jose State.
Also, the professor Pollett talked
about the CS department.
It gives you the one year like two
semester long
culminating experience and because of
that opportunity, I worked with professor Stamp
on one of the papers.
We are in the progress of publishing
that paper in the book.
So that is also one good advantage for
you if you study in the computer science
department.
In the end, I would like to add my
favorite thing about the computer science
department.
The class size for the graduate classes
is really small.
So that's why the learning is more like
interactive. You get
to you know talk with your professor and
there is a lot of interaction in the
class, which is like
you know best for the learning
experience. So yeah
that's about me. Hi, my name is Yan Chen. This is actually my third year here
at San Jose State. You may wonder like
why I took
a long time for the graduate study.
Actually,
my undergrad degree was in math. So I
needed to spend the first year
to complete all the required
undergrad
classes, cs course classes. Besides
being a student,
I'm also working as a grader for
several cs classes and
during that time i enjoy answering
questions from students to help them.
I will be teaching a undergrad class
for sewing next semester. I'm
happy to answer any of your questions.
Thank you!
Hi! My name is Max. I joined SJSU
MSCS program in Spring 2018.
I also work as a software developer
in one of the startup company for the
whole 2018
and I think that's one of the benefits
if you attend SJSU.
As there are so many tech companies
around, you will always find some
opportunities.
My field of interest is machine
learning and computer security.
Currently, I'm doing a research
project with Professor Teng Moh
and Melody Moh, using deep
learning to solve vision-based
autonomous driving. I'm also in the
process of submitting a research paper
in one of the conferences.
I hope I can help you to answer some
of your questions.
Great! Thank you so much for our four
student panelists
introducing themselves. So I
see that we have already six
Q&A questions posted. So
admitted international graduate
students, for those who came in late,
we just want to let you know that we are
very happy
and congratulations on being accepted.
This is
highly competitive. Only about 14%
of the applications were selected.
So congratulations again. For the
last 30 minutes, It will be live Q&A.
So therefore, you can continue typing
your questions
and then we will answer accordingly
here.
All the panelists will be able to see
the
questions and so we are mostly going to
answer live. So the first question
by Dhruv, "What is the class profile?
What is the background of incoming
students?
How many students are there in
the incoming class?"
So I will have a Professor
Chris Pollett answer because he
handles graduate student admission.
Alright, so we had about I think 143
students that we accepted. On the order
of 45
were local to California and the
remainder
were from outside of California.
From those outside of California, I would
say that the majority
are either from India or Asia.
Although, we do have some from other
universities
in the US. So that's our profile.
Thank you so much Chris.
So if you have any follow-up questions
please continue to type in.
So the second question also from Dhruv
is, "How do I get an online appointment
with advisors to discuss
regarding courses to pick?"
So currently, it's summer and so the
department chair, myself
is the advisor who will be
working full-time. Everybody else they
are on summer break.
So especially I want to thank professor
Pollett, this is his summer break
and he has still
come to help you guys. So therefore
go ahead and email me. My email is
simply "melody.moh@sjsu.edu" In fact, I have
already got some questions from some
of you.
So the next question is "Given the
COVID-19 situation and online learning,
how will students go about applying for
an internship? Is this something SJSU can
help?"
So all of our activities are going
online. So whatever that have been
helping
students get internship, will now be
moving
online. So Deepti, who is among us,
one who has successfully obtained
internship and full-time jobs out so
I'll
have Deepti answer and then afterward Aniket
if you have anything to add please
answer after Deepti.
Yeah sure! So from like the
tech perspective of internship. A lot of
courses
which i took in my first and second
semester, specifically like algorithm design,
and
topics in AI as well as machine learning.
They helped me a lot in you know
in cracking and preparing for the
interviews. Since I
like interned at a AI
location of Intel. So that really
helped.
Also like from the application
perspective,
you could also apply uh on the student
portal
called Handshake. So there you get like a
lot of
job openings which are specifically for
students.
So that is a good portal to apply to.
At the same time, there are each
semester there is a
on-campus career fair that is hosted.
So I'm sure like for the next
semester
there is something, there is an
online version of the same which is
planned.
So It'll be great if you guys should
join it.
Yeah. I would just like to add that
like from my observation, most of the
interviews for internship are online
and they rarely call you for the on-site
interview when it's about internship.
So that should not be a problem even
before COVID
most of the internship interviews and
the process was
online. That should not be a problem in
the future as well.
Okay, great! Thank you so much! So any of these questions if you
continue to have questions you are
welcome to type in Q&A.
Afterwards, if you have any follow-up
questions please
email me and I will try my best to
answer
and I would also refer to others such as
our students,
other people, to get back to you
if i cannot answer. Okay, so the next
question
is from Sney Binh Dash.
"So this is for online classes international
students, will also have to
consider time difference?" and Achit
Agen also has a similar
question. So this is an excellent
question.
So that is why one of the most
important thing about
The Way to San Jose is to design
so that we can offer you at least nine
units
of classes that you can take at the
comfort of your home, your home countries, at a time that is convenient for you
most of the time.
So let me explain to you. So most of our
classes.
Computer science department
classes,
graduate classes, and undergraduate
elective
classes are now going what we call a
hybrid mode. Hybrid mode
meaning that the professors will
still teach online at their regular time,
but they will also record their lectures.
So if you cannot listen
at the scheduled time because it may be
midnight for you,
then you can listen after the class.
They will have office hours that
that is convenient for you, they will
also, answer
questions for you. Now during the entire
semester,
for a few times you are required
to attend at the scheduled time
and that is because those
are probably the exam or
project presentation. Which they want you
to be there to present to the entire
class. Other than these limited times,
you can attend the class at your
convenient time.
Now we do want to emphasize that
attending the class in person
at the time of the course might be most helpful because of the
interaction you could have
with the instructor. However,
we have designed this way so that
you can still attend.
Now many of our classes are 6:30pm,
7, okay 6pm,
7:30pm, and so on. So they are already quite late for us
and they are sort of still okay for you guys you can get up let's say at 6am,
7:30am, 8am, for India and then you know 10am,
11:30am for China. So therefore,
you could still attend classes. We have
also classes such as our time is early
morning, your time is evening like 7:30pm
and 9pm for your time.
For example, professor Mark Stamp who
is Aniket's
advisor. His class is
in Topics in Machine Learning.
That is at 9pm your India time.
So therefore you can attend the class
at that time, listening to him. We have
also some instructors that record their
lectures and then you watch it and then later you
when you come to the class you interact
with them.
So those are arrangements that we have
made
for you and there's a wide selection
very wide selection
of classes. So even though we say
guarantee nine units
but you can change, you can select
from a very wide spectrum. Later,
if we have time some of our own graduate
students
they are either instructors or they are
students
and they will share with you some
factors
for successful online learning.
From Sney Binh Dash, "So are they any
credits for a summer
internship?" So summer internship or
internship in general does have credit
for undergraduate students,
but for graduate students because this
is a very
rigorous program, so, therefore,
the summer internship will not count
as a course credit for your graduate
program.
Our professor Tang Moh, Associate
Chair, he would like to answer more to
this summer internship credit. So Tang please?
Yes. Basically that you can
not only get a credit, but also during
the summer you get a
real experience and the department
will be very helpful
to help you to and
not only just get a real experience.
During the the credit hour
we also have the class and the professor
will help you to adapt
how you make your,
why you have a encounter situation
to help you. So that's why
it's very useful to have both
the real industrial experience, but also
receive the
academic credit. Thank you, Tang.
Okay. So we have Dhruv another question,
"What is the process of applying for TA
positions in CS
department as a master student?" This is a
great question.
So i would have first Anniket
answer and then Yen. Okay so Anniket
please?
Yes, so to get the TA position I would
say that it is very important to get the
recommendation from the professor.
So for that I would say you should
perform good
in the classes. You should have a good
connection with the professor.
Try to meet them in office hours if
you have any questions. Once you have like
professor has the confidence in you,
recommendation will really help you to
get the TA position. Our department
is also
really helpful for the student to you
know get the TA position.
Thank you Aniket. Yan, do you have
anything to add?
Yeah. So from my experience, I was
not that
active when I was a student, but
I got a chance that the professor like
at the end of the semester the professor
asked like whether someone wants
to
be his grader and so I applied for that.
Then I just did,
he was very satisfied with my job. So I did
like things
more than required, because for a grader
I only required to grade
the quizzes. But I also like noted
all the common mistakes for him so he
knows like
what he can do. What he can emphasize
more in the next lectures.
So I also like
wrote on the discussion board about
my experience on learning, so to help
the students.
So the professor was very
satisfied with my
job and he referred me to the position.
So my point is just show your best,
just try your best. Whether you just
participate in the class
or apply for a grader and
just get a recommendation from the
professor.
Thank you so much Aniket has been
a TA for us
two semesters. He taught Python both Introduction and a more
advanced
and also Data Structure and Algorithms.
And Yan
is going to be a TA instructor for
formal languages.
Okay. So the next question is by Achit Jain
. Achit, I really like your name. I think it's the
name of a very famous
manga. Okay so Achit
so your question we have already
answered. So for nine
units I would help you
and so go ahead Achit and any
students if you have this doubt of
selecting nine units that is suitable
for your time,
convenient for your time. 
I'll be happy to help you, but as I say
most of our classes
are offered either
synchronously with recording
or asynchronously (that is you can take
it anytime).
So we do have three classes that are
offered asynchronously like this, that you don't
have to attend
at all. You can just listen to the
recorded lectures and turn in your
homework.
Okay. So we have uh the next question
by an anonymous attendee. Okay.
"So in case when an international
student is not eligible for CPT
in summer, can they do a voluntary
internship without accepting any pay?"
So I will have Parinaz answer for
us.
Sure, so we require
that you get CPT authorization for paid
or unpaid employment
because of labor laws in the United
States.
So it's something that we can explore
together. It's case-by-case volunteering.
Volunteering is really if you're
volunteering to read to elderly, for
example.
It's not to volunteer at a tech company.
So you would require CPT authorization
for that.
Thank you so much. So the next question
is by Niraj Sunil, "So once we are eligible for CPT in
Fall 2021, how many hours can we work along
with our academics?" That is an excellent
question.
So let me explain to you how do you
become eligible for Fall 2021,
since some of you might be late.
So the rule says that you need to be
full-time
two semesters. So in the US. So let's
say that you started fall online, but in
the spring
you can do full time and in the summer you
can take six units and become full time.
So we do offer
enough credits for graduate students to
take.
Okay this semester we have a graduate
algorithm class and a undergraduate
database
class, both of them can
count in your Master MSCS program.
So after you take them
in the US, then you become eligible in
the fall
2021 to be to have CPT.
Then and so for CPT I believe
you can work up to 20 hours during
the semester and full time
during winter and summer break.
That is correct, yes.
Thank you so much. Thank you. It's just
so
comforting to hear someone with the
expert knowledge
to affirm that. So the next question
is from Aniruda,
"So are they any groups created for
international students
admitted this fall which I may be
unaware of?
When would the graduate advisors be
assigned
to us? What does the intent to
enroll fees
cover? How to initiate The Way to San
Jose program?"
Now all these questions are music to our
ears!
Okay. So therefore are there any groups
created for international students? And
so on these I would have Curt and then
Parinaz answer. I would just
answer the "How will the graduate
advisors be assigned to us?"
So during the summer, I am the only
active graduate advisor.
So you can just email me: melody.moh@sjsu.edu
Okay, and then in the fall
your graduate advisor are assigned
according to your last two digits of
your student id,
SJSU student id. It is posted on the
advisor page of
our computer science department page.
So I will leave the other questions to be
answered
by Parinaz and Curt. Sure!
So thank you, Melody. With regard to
programming, as I mentioned we will have
Global Spartan Welcome.
So that's a great way to connect with
your peers.
However in the meantime, I recommend that
you go to our website
under events. We are hosting some virtual
events currently. We do a
Tea Time every Thursday at 2pm. I
know we have had some
newly admitted students join it's a
great way to meet
some other students who are currently on
campus. As we go
into it I mentioned also we will be
reaching out to all of you in July.
We will be asking you to follow
us on Facebook
and Instagram. So utilize social media.
That's also a great way
to connect with our international
students. We have a lot of questions, so
if they are similar, we will skip. Okay, "So
what is the background of incoming
students (age-wise),
average work experience industry they
have been working?"
So Chris could you answer this to the
best of your knowledge?
Okay so this is a little bit similar to
I think an earlier question of Dhruv.
The average age I would say is
early 20s.
Many students I don't
pass did work a year or two after
getting their undergraduate degree.
Industries they've been working in. So many.
were working in computer science,
in tech firms. For instance in India, but
I
again I don't know exact percentages. That wasn't something that I was
tallying as I was going on, but I
would say that
many you know, like at least a third
would be a rough estimate. Okay. Great,
Thank you so much, Chris. I just want
to let you know that our students are
very strong because
only 14% are accepted. So
technical preparation wise, they are
very strong. Most of them
have a undergraduate in Computer
Science. Even if not, like Yan,
a degree from math is very strong and
quite a few of them have
two or more years of industry
experiences. Yeah.
So if there were international
students,
pretty much all of them have a degree
either
CS or something very close to CS.
Many have you know performed
in hackathons or they've
had like even IEEE papers before coming
to us.
So they're quite you know the
admitted students are quite an elite
group.
Great. Thank you so much. So now we have, I have to go through quickly. So the
questions
the next questions very related is, "Can
students
take less than 9 units or more than 9
units
under The Way to San Jose Program?"
I will have
Curt answer this...
Thank you, Dr. Moh. Yes, the students
can take
less than nine units. The
units are usually the courses are three
units so it would be either three, or six,
or nine
units. Usually, my experience is that
the the graduate level, they don't
recommend 12 units,
but that's a answer that could be
provided by
Professor Pollett or Professor Moh.
So if you wanted to, you know we'd
very much
like you to take nine units in the fall
because the university wants you to stay
on track to graduate
within two years.
But, you do have the option of taking 6
units or 3 units, if you choose to.
Great. Then there are some questions
about
career fairs. It is a very busy event.
Some questions about getting
internships. I think students are
really eager to get internships. So I
believe this career fair and
internship
back to Deepti and Aniket.
I like to answer one question and that
is about TA. So a TA position usually we
hire only students after they have been
with us
one semester at least. So therefore if
you enroll
in the fall, then the fastest
is to be a TA in the spring of 2021.
In the fall 2020, since we don't really
know you yet.
It is not possible to hire you as
a TA, because TA is an instructor it's a
very serious
job. So we will really want to know you
for
at least one semester. Okay so back to
internship.
Deepti, Aniket, and Max.
Max, also I was working full-time
at some point and so, please.
Sure let me go first. So about the
career fairs,
yes like they are busy events, but
they are well managed. In a way that
for example if there are like 10
companies coming to the career affair
you get to know as a student you get to
know the list of 10 companies like
at least two days before. The
time of the career fair you get like a
map, a visual map to
know like where each company's booth
is. So based on your background and your
interests in the companies,
you can you know prioritize like where
you want to go
and stand in the queue first. So, I mean
the queues are long, but
the time that you get with the
recruiter
that is kind of yours. I think like that.
I mean looking back, you can also
use it as a way to you know practice
your one minute pitch.
That is a good forum. Yes, I will
also agree with Deepti that the career
fairs are very well organized. You get
the list of companies and you can
prioritize which one you want to visit.
Also, that there is a criteria to get
into the career fair.
You have to have some minimum number of
credits and the GPA.
So make sure that the eligible
students get the chance
to present themselves, present their
skills.
I would also like to add that other than
these career fairs,
there are so many, plenty of other
opportunities where you can
apply online for internship.
Not only the career fair, but there are so
many other opportunities to get the
internship.
Actually, I don't have much experience
with the career fair. I got my full-time
job
by connections. I know a company that is
hiring
So i invited my friend to give it a try
then my friend gets to this company A.
After a while he jumps to company B and
that time
they are hiring. Company B is hiring. So my
friend actually refers me. So I just went
there
and do interview and get a job.
This is
it's pretty important to have some
connections in Silicon Valley. It's
quite easy to acquire such connections.
Great. Thank you! Yeah and Max is
definitely right on getting connections.
Therefore, it will be the best that you enroll
right away
and get connected with professors,
as our TAs all say, and professors also
constantly
have internship opportunities sent to
them through
alumni and their industry friends, and
they always refer.
First thing is they refer to their
students, their master thesis
students, their outstanding students
in their classes. So it's
it's good to be enrolled right away.
Get to know your professors, get to know
your classmates,
your senior classmates, and get the
connection.
Okay. So there is here a question
about Spring 2021.
So I would have Curt and maybe Parinaz
answer that. Whether they are online?
So sorry! Can you read the question to me,
Melody?
Yes. So the question is, "I
understand that MSCS is only offered in
the fall online?" I think that is what the student meant.
Okay and then will this year be
different? I think that's what the student
meant 2021. Spring 21, would it be online?
Yeah and I think at this point
we are not certain. It depends you know
the situation with COVID
19 is very fluid. At this point the
plan
for San Jose State is to return to
in-person classes
in Spring 2021.
So I don't know. Curt if you have
anything else to add to that?
No, not really. I mean i think it's a
it's an evolving situation
in San Jose as it is all over the
world. The university has been pretty
transparent about planning for
whatever situation confronts us.
So we are planning for students to come
join us for the spring semester,
but we will have plans ready should
that change.
Thank you very much, Curt. Here is
related to this question
that, "What happens if we enroll
online for Fall 2020 and then
there is some bad situation that they
cannot secure a visa
and attend the spring semester in person?"
So Curt
and Parinaz. Could you respond to this
question?
Sure. So I would encourage you if you are
in that situation to contact our office:
international-office@sjsu.edu
That will become your, you will memorize
that email. I assure you.
We can kind of look at your
case and see
why there was a delay or a visa denial
and help you navigate that. I can't give
you a blanket response
because it's really case by case. We
would set up you know if we continue to
be virtual
we will set up a zoom appointment with
you to discuss further.
So don't ever hesitate to reach out to
us. So international-office@sjsu.edu
Thank you so much. We have only three
minutes left. So I want to quickly wrap
up. I really thank you for your
enthusiastic
participation. So one question is, "Maximum
or minimum number of units?" So we already
answered this. So
we would really like you to enroll in
nine units,
but if you can only enroll in six
units, you can
talk to your advisor. If you want to
enroll more, you should also
talk to your advisor for this.
Now nine units is the best that we
understand are for an international
student. Then number two is
very important. Could we accept the
option to defer our admission to Fall
2021
be made available in view of the current
COVID situation?
So the computer science department is
still contemplating about it currently.
It is that currently the answer is
"No" but we are still thinking about it.
We will have a final decision will be made around
mid-june. The current answer is that "No"
deferment,
but if you reapply for admission
it is very likely that you will get in
again.
Okay. That is the answer right now.
So this CPT we already answered it. So
Cindy. It's 7:59 is it, we are going to
end right away?
Yeah. If you want everyone can kind of
say something to the audience and then
we can wrap it up.
Thank you so much. Yes, so I will have how about we first have
the students,
and then Chris, and then Parinaz,
and then Curt. Okay. Students, so
let's have Deepti and then Aniket and
then
Yan and then Max say something to
encourage students.
Yeah sure so I definitely think that
you guys should come
like start the classes this semester.
You know gain
one semester ahead
from all other students which may
differ.
That would be a great choice. I
mean Silicon Valley is
a load full of opportunities and they
are all waiting for you so
yes, you should definitely join this. Thank you.
Yeah, even I would
like to add that
you enroll in the fall 2020 and by
spring 22,
you will be ready for the full-time
opportunities and that's a really good
time to
start for the full time spring 22.
Yan. There are a lot of opportunities
here
and you can easily get connection with
your professors
and we also have
online. So the online classes on on the
canvas
and they have discussion board so you
can participate in that.
Even if you cannot participate in
the class.
Yes, I think you guys should all
start early. just don't wait because online
classes it's not that bad, it's
pretty good. Especially you can skip the
boring commute in Bay Area.
It saves you a lot of time and
hope to see you guys!
Chris?
Yeah so I'm really excited to
to see you guys first virtually and then
in person starting next year.
I've read all your applications and I
know you're an awesome class to be.
So i'm just waiting here to see you
in the fall.
Okay, Parinaz and then Curt. Sure
I also look forward to welcoming all
of you virtually in the fall.
You'll be joining the global spartan
community and we have a lot planned for
all of you.
So look forward to seeing you all
virtually in the fall.
I would just say that don't
forget that we're in Silicon Valley.
There's a lot of online
activities that happened here even
before the virus struck. In fact, I think I heard
recently that twitter has now decided
that they're going to be entirely online
with all their workforce from now on. So
I would advise you don't be intimidated
by the online
option. It's actually an opportunity
for you to kind of get that experience.
Then when you join the university
in person, they'll enrich your experience
even more.
Thank you everyone. I want to thank
also our student panelists
and I want to thank everyone. All the
admitted graduate student to take part.
Again, I'm Melody Moh. I am the
interim chair of the Department of
Computer Science. I'll be here
serving you in the summer. So send me an
email when you have any questions. I'll
try to answer or connect you.
I want to thank Cindy, Curt and Parinaz
for hosting this program. Thank you so
much.
Students, we hope to see you online
in the fall
and in person in spring 2021. Thank you
and welcome to San Jose State University.
