Nivedita Chopra

Assistant Copy Manager

I was responsible for assisting the Copy Manager of the newspaper, and making decisions on layout or content in his absence. My responsibilities included reading through pages of the newspaper to ensure that articles preserve integrity of content and conform to the established style of The Tartan. As part of this, I scanned for spelling and grammatical errors, fixed layout, and ensured that names were spelt right and sources were cited correctly.

Staffwriter

Here are some articles that I'm proud of:

April Fool's computer science conference gets many laughs
(Editor-in-chief's pick for the best article in the issue)
An inside look at the organization behind the TOC
(Editor-in-chief's pick for the best article in the issue)
Dangerous Heartbleed bug may bleed your online accounts
Wyvern program allows use of multiple languages at once
It's never too early to search for your dream job at the EOC
Kosbie advises students on happiness, well-being in life

All my work can be found here

Women@SCS

Women@SCS is Carnegie Mellon's organization to support and promote women in Computer Science.

Undergraduate Sisters Program

I was co-chair for this program. Here's what I did in this capacity:

I helped manage the matching process for Big/Little Sisters, where freshmen women are assigned an upperclass mentor whom they can easily approach.

I organized various social events both on and off campus where undergraduate women in computer science can join in to do a fun activity while getting to know other women studying computer science.

In Spring 2014, I also proposed a social event called Class Mixers for the women of each class to meet each other and do a fun activity together. I helped organize the Class Mixer for the women of the Class of 2015, which was very well-received.

Webteam

In my junior year, I was co-leader of the team that manages the website for Women@SCS. Our efforts include:

Updating the content of the website to reflect the ongoing activities of the organization

Redesigning various parts of the website using modern technologies, while ensuring support for older content dating as far back as 1999. In Spring 2014, I did an independent study to research technologies that were best suited to our specific purpose.