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Hello! I am a Master's Student studying Symbolic Systems, with coursework primarily in Computer Science and Neuroscience. I took a few quarters off of school to work at Slack as a technical architect during COVID. What is your concentration and why did you choose it? Master's degrees don't have concentrations, but my undergraduate degree was in cognitive neuroscience and I self-taught a lot of the technical background to become more well-versed in artificial intelligence topics. What's your favorite class that you’ve taken so far? (SymSys-related, or not) My non-SymSys related class is ENGR 248 (Principled Entrepreneurial Decisions). I still talk to the professors and it's a wonderful class for learning how to apply ideas to real life. My SymSys-related recommendation is PHIL 167D (Philosophy of Neuroscience). It's a seminar style course and I got the worst grade of my life from that class on my very first paper in that class. The professor knew I wrote the paper at the last minute and

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