I faintly remember how I would stress over finding the right way to ask for a guest’s phone to play games with, whenever there was an event in our house. My good aunties would just give it to me, with nice a pat on the back, while the “Petunia Dursleys” stressed over tricking me to …
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The hardest thing to overcome in computer science is intimidation. When you try to enter the field as a beginner, it feels like a foreign territory. I remember thinking “I would love to learn programming.” I also remember thinking “Do I belong in this field?”, “Am I good enough?”. I spent so much time wondering …
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My name is Abebe Amare and I am an undergraduate student at Duke University studying Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering. I have always appreciated how chains of opportunities brought me here and how the opportunity I have at Duke takes me to the next stage of my life. Opportunities are the fragments of …
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