Student Activities

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• Sarah Valencia (Chair | Fall 2023): svalencia@vassar.edu
  
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• Abby Kotar (Vice Chair): akotar@vassar.edu
  
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• Erin Mutchek (Communications Director): emutchek@vassar.edu
  
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• Pooja Huded (Events Manager): phuded@vassar.edu
  
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• Dafne Arreola (Asst. Events Manager): darreola@vassar.edu
  
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Name: Sarah Valencia (she/her)
Class year: 2024
Where I’m from:San Diego, CA
Majors/ correlates: Computer Science and Economics, with hopes for a correlate in mathematics.
Something people might not know about me: I played competitive softball for 10 years.
What common programming mistake are you?: Typos. I try to type as fast as my brain thinks and that has led to many spelling errors.
Favorite thing about CS: Finishing an assignment that was really hard. It is one of the most rewarding feelings.

Name: Pooja Huded
Class year: 2025
Where I’m from: Long Island
Major/ correlates: Computer Science and Political Science
Something people might not know about me: “I came into Vassar being pre-law/IS, and then I took a CS class as a “wild card class” and ended up loving it and declared the next semester!”
What common programming mistake are you?: “Using a variable I only defined in my head and then being confused when there's an error.”
Favorite thing about CS: “Solving a problem/passing all the tests after struggling with it for a long time!”

Name: Abigail Kotar (she/her)
Class year: 2023
Where I’m from: Millington, NJ
Majors/ correlates: Computer Science and Math
Something people might not know about me: I'm a co-captain for our Quidditch team the Butterbeer Broooers!
What common programming mistake are you?: Forgetting a semi-colon :(
Favorite thing about CS: The problem solving aspect! I enjoy breaking down problems into smaller problems to solve.

Name: Dafne Arreola (she/her)
Class year: 2026
Where I’m from: El Paso, TX
Major/ correlates: Computer Science
Something people might not know about me: My favorite cereal is Carlos V Cereal.
What common programming mistake are you?: NullPointerException, sometimes there's nothing there
Favorite thing about CS: Seeing your project compile and run properly

Name: Erin Mutchek
Class year: 2025
Where I’m from: South Windsor, CT
Major/ correlates: Computer Science major and French and Francophone Studies correlate
Something people might not know about me: I'm part of the hip hop group HYPE.
What common programming mistake are you?: index out of bounds
Favorite thing about CS: My favorite part is taking an idea I'm envisioning and working with other people to design something that actually works.

VC++ is Vassar’s only computer science centered org. Our goal is to build a strong computer science community on campus. This year we’re working on creating a student-run makerspace, setting up an interview prep & study group, and running multiple workshops.
Contact Wolff Gilligan (wgilligan@vassar.edu) for more information.