A student review of DePaul University
Background
Gender Identity: Male
Race/Ethnicity: South Asian/Pakistani
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Graduation Year: December 2020
High School Experience: Public high school in San Antonio, TX with a graduating class of about 730 students. There was a culture of going to college.
First-Generation College Student: No
Major: Cybersecurity
Minor: Computer Science
Extracurricular Activities: I’m in the Security Daemons Club and I play intramural sports.
Did any of your extracurricular activities have a particularly big impact on your experience?
The Security Daemons Club gives me a better understanding of my major, and it provides more challenging opportunities to help me going forward. For intramurals, it’s good for being social and meeting new people.
Academic Experience
Can you describe your weekly coursework for your major?
A lot of the work is lab-based. We have 15 labs throughout the whole quarter and each of them will take 3–4 hours. We’re assigned the labs at the beginning of the quarter and we have to finish them on our own, but you’ll learn more…
