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Thanks to Cornell Information Science’s early admit option for the Master of Professional Studies program, students like Shea Belsky can chip away at a master’s degree while finishing up their undergraduate studies. Now, mere months after attaining a BS degree in Information Science, Shea – a past president of the Information Science Student Association –...

Take note, students: it’s okay if you have yet to make a firm decision on your career path. Current MPS student Eric Porter (Info Sci ’17; MPS '18) gets it. He was there, too. “I didn’t know what I wanted to do until March of my senior year in undergrad,” he admits. But by then, mere months before graduation, Eric’s interdisciplinary Information Science...

Lola Legrand (Info Sci '17, MPS ’18) is savoring her time as a graduate student and making the most of it. Her ambitious class schedule clocks in at 19 credit hours this semester, filled with courses that inform her big-three interests: technology, design and law. Why such a heavy work load in her opening MPS semester? “I didn’t know how to decide which...

Are you an international student? Do you struggle to use slang in social contexts? Well, then Slang Central, the app that teaches you American slang, is for you. What I just pitched is not a “real” app. It’s not available in the app store, has no backend development, and is only stored in Figma – an online application that allows users to create high...