Shruja Soni

I am currently senior at the DePaul University, pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems with minor in Finance. Throughout my college career I have excelled in all of my MIS courses with cumulative GPA of 3.5/4.0. Being an active participant in a number of conferences held by the university and being a key member of several organizations including Premier Cricket League, I have developed strong interpersonal, detail oriented and organizational skills. Additionally, I intend to obtain a Masters degree in Project Management after graduation.

What drew you to this particular subject!

We live in a society where everyone uses a smart cell phone or a computer, with most using both. I live in a very different world than my parents did at my age. Today’s world is full of web services - YouTube, Netflix, and Facebook areal a key part of my daily lives. Even the games I play, are digital and many are programmable, such as Code Spell and the new-generation Leapfrog’s, which have sensors.

It is one thing to know how to use these programs (games and web pages). It’s another, however, to understand how the logic behind them works. This is a challenge that I constantly love to learn as it deals with the digital part of the world that I can inhabit from coding.

In today’s culture, to know how to program is to understand, to build, and to change. IT is like learning any other language. The difference, of course, is that programming can be much more powerful. As Programming skills are becoming ever more important, quickly turning into the core competency for all kinds of 21st Century workers.

Additionally I think, for the leaders of tomorrow - there is perhaps no skill as important as learning to program. In the future, the amount of technology and our reliance on it will only increase. Therefore, I need to be able to not only consume this technology, but to understand and control it too. So this is what drew me to this subject.

- Shrujal Soni.
ShrujalSoni@Skydivechi.com