Maria is a BSE junior in the Computer Science department, currently pursuing minors in Global health, and Statistics and Machine Learning. She is from Charlotte, North Carolina, but her family is originally from Mexico.

Areas of Specialization:

• General Life and Learning
• Managing BSE course loads
• Transitioning to Princeton
• First generation, low-income experiences at Princeton
• Scheduling and Time Management
• Strategizing course-specific learning approaches
• Procrastination
• Recovering from burnout
• Weekly coaching
• Course Selections

Campus Connections: (groups and organizations currently part of):

• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Board Member
• Peer Academic Advisor at Forbes residential college
• Scholars Institue Fellows Program (SIFP) for first-generation and lower-income students
• QuestBridge
• Occasional Rock Climbing

Courses taken/want students to know have taken:

• ISC 231 - ISC 234
• EGR 156
• MAT 202
• WRI 162
• COS 226, 217, 302, 324
• ORF 245
• POR 106