{"id":11114,"date":"2020-02-14T10:18:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T15:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/?page_id=11114"},"modified":"2025-04-24T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:51:00","slug":"meet-alex","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/meet-our-students\/meet-alex\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Alex"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full xl:container mx-auto px-6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11121 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/files\/Alex-Canfield_Cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Canfield\" width=\"140\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Alex Canfield<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Computer Science\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/home\/wdcs\/computer-science\/\">Computer Science<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong> 1. Why did you choose Computer Science as your major?<\/strong><br \/>\nI took my first Computer Science course in my senior year of high school. It was the first time I had ever learned about the subject, and I really enjoyed it. I had always liked math and science, so I decided to major in Computer Science because it felt like a good mix of the two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Why did you choose to attend Marshall University?<\/strong><br \/>\nI was really fortunate to be given the Yeager Scholarship to come study at Marshall. That was an opportunity I couldn\u2019t pass up and the Computer Science program was flexible enough for me to study the other things I enjoy like English and French. Aside from that, Marshall is close to home for me, but far enough away that I can be independent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. What has been your favorite Computer Science class as a student and why?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy favorite Computer Science class was probably a Cybersecurity. You get to do a lot of challenging projects in that class and learn about an entirely different side of programming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. What do you plan to do after graduation? <\/strong><br \/>\nAfter graduation, I will be working with the Department of Defense doing Computer Science research and development at the Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Canfield Computer Science &nbsp; 1. Why did you choose Computer Science as your major? I took my first Computer Science course in my senior year of high school. It was the first time I had ever learned about the subject, and I really enjoyed it. I had always liked math and science, so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"featured_media":0,"parent":2548,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-legacy.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11114","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16089,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11114\/revisions\/16089"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}