[LOCUTOR]

Track forty-one, unit eighteen, what lies ahead

[APRESENTADOR]

I'm curious though, you mentioned you had heard of Syracuse before coming to campus. What was that interaction like? What were some of the exposures that you had to this University before coming here?

[ADYA PARIDA]

So I wasn't able to visit any of the colleges that I applied to, but I would go like I would look at different websites that have like, basically I was looking for engineering colleges and Syracuse came up in the list and then I would go to the website I would look at like the majors offered then the different courses within the major that is offered, then I also looked at the clubs on campus. So basically I did my own research in a sense that I just went like, once I heard about a university I just went to their website and tried to do my own research… hum… and tried to see if it has the things that I'm looking for, so yeah that's how I got to know and also I think my dad's one of my dad's friends had studied here at some point like so my dad had heard of it and when I told him okay I was looking I was looking at this University said "oh okay, my friend studied that too", so, ok, that's cool, then I look into even more.

[APRESENTADOR]

I want to go back to the part about engineering and computer science. Obviously you know you've had great success here at Syracuse studying computer science. Where did that interest in computer science come from, like, was there a light bulb moment when you said "ah-ha, this is what I want to study"?

[ADYA PARIDA]

For me, it wasn't like a light bulb moment like I was going on one track and then I completely switched tracks, it kind of was, it kind of built up. It was like, I could see myself doing something doing in stem like since I was like in grade six or seven I was always interested in math I love math and science and I first got introduced to coding when I was like about thirteen or fourteen, like my brother is a computer engineer and he also got me interested… hum… and ever since I saw that I could actually apply those math and science skills into a computer program and I can see like real tangible results, like I can actually see those skills applied so I thought this is a fantastic field to be in and it's exciting and there's a lot that you can do within it and it's growing, so I thought yeah why not so it wasn't really like a light bulb moment, I kind of expected it all along and, yeah, when the time came, I chose it.