August 22, 2024
By Patricia Waldron
Sai Nellutla ’27 grew up with an electrical engineer and a math teacher for parents, but despite his family’s focus on math and physics, he never had the opportunity to explore programming.
August 25, 2022
When Alisa Castillo ’25, a middle child from California with parents of Salvadorean and Nicaraguan descent, started taking computer science courses in her first year at Cornell, she already felt she had a lot to catch up on.
“I got to know people who came here with a lot of experience under their belt,” she said. “Some already worked on their own personal projects before coming and had years of experience knowing XYZ languages.”
Even though she did well in introductory programming classes, Oluwatise Alatise ’23 wasn’t sure she wanted to major in computer science.
“I wasn’t feeling confident in the work I was producing,” she said. “I wasn’t feeling confident in my skills, and began considering other majors I was more confident in pursuing.”
