Made the cover of this semester’s Artist Alley Zine: CMU through the Seasons! (Zine = short for self-published magazine) Every semester the Artist Alley Club works together to create a zine with a theme. This summer the theme was Seasons @ CMU. Super proud of all the campus-based Easter Eggs inserted throughout: And here’s theContinue reading “Artist Alley Zine Cover!”
Tag Archives: Parmita
Senior Leadership Recognition Award
“For your dedication and leadership in SCS4All and your exceptional work as a teaching assistant in 15-151 and 15-251, along with your leadership as a tour guide, I have nominated you for the Senior Leadership Recognition. Thank you for all you have done to help our students in computer science and address issues of diversity and inclusion on our campus. You areContinue reading “Senior Leadership Recognition Award”
CMWA Award
I just received the Carnegie Mellon Women’s Association Award for the School of Computer Science! (click on the images to go to each part of the award!) It means so much to have my work at SCS recognized like this. I loved reading the 3-page-long nomination letter filled with comments from people across SCS and IContinue reading “CMWA Award”
Andrew Carnegie Society Scholar
I am so honored to receive this award Five School of Computer Science seniors have been selected as Andrew Carnegie Society Scholars for 2021. The award recognizes their academic excellence; volunteerism; leadership; and involvement in student organizations, athletics or the arts. Parmita Bawankule, Pranav Kumar, Arnav Mahajan, Stephen Price and Chloe Yan are among 40 students fromContinue reading “Andrew Carnegie Society Scholar”
Watch Together FB Messenger
It’s here!!!! I worked on the Messenger Cowatch project. It allows you to watch videos together with friends. Check out its official release page for details on How it Works and more. Here’s a pic of me testing it out with my intern mentor. I worked on the Machine Learning portion to rank and listContinue reading “Watch Together FB Messenger”
Remote Internship at Facebook
This summer I was fortunate enough that the company I signed on to intern with, Facebook, was doing a remote internship during the pandemic. I wanted to summarize some of the ups and downs of this experience. Structured Internship Facebook has a very structured internship. Interns (at least on the technical side) are given 3Continue reading “Remote Internship at Facebook”
SCS Day Part 3!
I’ve had the honor of being featured in SCS Day my first and second year and again this time! It was a lot of fun! Here are a few of the comics that were on display: I even got featured in the CMU SCS Instagram page! Can’t wait for next year!
On Volunteering, Optimizing Metrics, and more
This winter break I volunteered at the Southern California Vipassana Center in Joshua Tree near LA. On being free: I’ve done a couple of 10-day meditation retreats in the past through the Vipassana Organization and the neat thing is that it is completely free.Not even that it’s a non-profit, but actually free. You don’t pay forContinue reading “On Volunteering, Optimizing Metrics, and more”
Dream 2 Meme
idk how to explain this My friend Neha asked me what would happen if you replaced the word dream in all those “deep” internet quotes with the word meme and we spent the next half hour laughing about this. I laughed harder about this than I have about anything all year. So I made an extensionContinue reading “Dream 2 Meme”
GHC Thoughts
I was fortunate enough to go to the annual Grace Hopper Celebration– the world’s largest gathering of women technologists. Here are some random thoughts I had throughout my experience: On travelling: Travelling can be pretty annoying. Planning an itinerary, packing the right amount of stuff, waiting in line, standing at the airport, sitting in a plane–andContinue reading “GHC Thoughts”