 The Competitive Programming Club meets every other week on Friday afternoon and we basically get a set of problems that we can see who can solve the most the fastest. And it's just a great place to socialize, to learn new coding skills, to try some cool algorithms, to have some fun, have some food, it's just a lot of fun. You get a lot of skills that you may not necessarily get from just classwork, but what you really get out of it is just the ability to really quickly recognize problems and the ability to think your way to solutions instead of just working from like a PA where the best solution is just kind of spelled out for you, you know, you get to find it yourself. Learning how to program under pressure is a skill in and of itself and everyone at some point has to do it whether it's for a job interview or whether it's for a presentation. You get better at it as you practice it and so really one of the best benefits of the club is having a safe environment for doing that, having people that you can learn from and laugh with and just not have a lot of pressure but practice programming under a time crunch. I went to both of the competitions that we had last year, being able to go on a trip with other CS majors and program alongside them. I've never been able to like program for fun and program with CS majors and hang out at the same time and that unique experience was just so much fun and just made the whole thing totally worth it. So if you're somebody who doesn't really know if they should come out or you know you're on the fence or you're worried that maybe you won't know everything that's going on right away, you shouldn't worry about it at all because like this is a super open and easygoing environment. There are people there who not only will help you but would love to help you. We'll totally welcome you and we just want to see people you know come out so you know I really hope to see you there.