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(Web) Developing Her Future

鈥淕rowing up, I wanted to be a pediatrician,鈥� says聽College of Engineering and Computing Sciences听蝉迟耻诲别苍迟听Danielle Ongsohu. 鈥淏ut in high school, I did an afterschool program called Code Nation that introduced me to web development.鈥�

After three years in the program, Ongsohu realized the extracurricular had awakened a passion within her for coding and web development. Now, she鈥檚 working toward her bachelor鈥檚 degree in computer science with a minor in graphic design鈥攆ully immersing herself in a field of study that she fell in love with by chance during her time at Code Nation. 

Hoping that a computer science degree will give her a diverse web development education and experience in the field, Ongsohu says her classes are giving her the tools she鈥檒l need to excel in her future career. In the spring of 2023, she participated in a software engineering group project centered on creating a game center. The project incorporated elements of coding and graphic design鈥攕kills critical to Ongsohu鈥檚 goal of becoming a front-end web developer, creating what a user will see and interact with when visiting a website.

鈥淚t was interesting to see the combination of my interests come to life and to learn how to work through the challenges of piecing the project together,鈥� she says. 鈥淥ur group made a lot of edits and spent many nights focusing on all of the problems that we needed to solve.鈥�

When she鈥檚 not in class, Ongsohu can be found working at one of her three part-time jobs, including being a student ambassador for 黑料导航, or participating in her sorority on the Long Island campus, Kappa Phi Gamma, Pi Charter. Founded in Texas in 1998, Kappa Phi Gamma is the United States鈥� first South Asian interest-based sorority. 

鈥淲e expanded the warmth of our sisterhood to include any and all motivated women who are willing to make a difference in their community and to uphold the eight principles that the sisterhood is based upon,鈥� says Ongsohu of the sorority, which has shifted to being open to all women. 鈥淭his coming fall (2023), I will be president of our chapter, Pi Charter.鈥�

Becoming president of her sorority is not the only exciting thing in store for Ongsohu during the upcoming academic year, as she is also expecting to graduate in spring 2024. She hopes to secure a computer science-based internship that could transition into a full-time job. 

Having taken 鈥渞igorous computer science courses鈥� that included creating projects with time constraints and constructive criticism from professors, Ongsohu says her time at the university has given her the confidence to enter the workforce and enabled her to grow as a student and, important for her career goals, as a coder.

Ongsohu offers this advice to computer science students: 鈥淯tilize all the resources that are available to you and persevere because it will get hard. Remember that you deserve all that you want, but you have to work for it.鈥�