By Zhaoyang He, MEng ’23 (EECS)
This op-ed is part of a series from E295: Communications for Engineering Leaders. In this course, Master of Engineering students were challenged to communicate a topic they found interesting to a broad audience of technical and non-technical readers. As an opinion piece, the views shared here are neither an expression of nor endorsed by UC Berkeley or the Fung Institute. On my first day at Berkeley, I was shocked by the number of classmates in DATA100, Principles and Techniques of Data Science: nearly 1,100! However, stepping into Wheeler 150, I noticed there were only 200 students in this classroom, and where were the others? Later, I learned that DATA100 provided online videos, and students could study through Zoom. “Classrooms are too crowded, and it’s relaxing to learn at home,” explained Hao, one of my classmates who preferred to study online.




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