Stuti Gupta, Editor-in-Chief
Look beyond the smile and you see Jefferson senior Stuti Gupta, who’s been a part of tjTODAY since her sophomore year. Now an Editor-in-Chief (Print), Stuti’s responsibilities include leading, designing for, and writing for the print issue. Following her passion of writing, Stuti soon joined TJ Media. Her favorite part about writing is learning about the different perspectives of the people and communities she writes about. Stuti’s hobbies include coding, playing the piano, dancing, and drawing. In her free time, she enjoys watching TV and listening to music; her favorite show is Psych and favorite artist is Alec Benjamin. In the future she hopes to pursue both computer science and journalism through computational or data journalism.
![Jefferson was a recipient of the "AP CS Female Diversity Award" from the College Board. "[A] noticeable difference is that before, the students who did the whole four year sequence of computer science in TJ were students who knew, coming in, that they wanted to study computer science," former computer science teacher Ms. Ria Galanos said. "Now, that's different. [Their elective choices] change from what they thought [they would be] six months ago, as they [realize], ‘Oh, I really do like this, and I had no idea I would’. That says a lot for the foundation's teachers–they're really encouraging [students with all types of] career aspirations. We don't expect people to become software engineers. We want some of them to become software engineers, but we also want them to become journalists, doctors, and lawyers.”](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Project-Drawing-1_33-2.png)
