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I am also currently in OMSCS. One relatively recent change is that students actively use the slack or discord rooms for the course.

I actually found the interactive discussion to be more frequent then my (in-person) undergrad

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The best part of my experience was trying to form a study group (Google Hangouts at the time). Most people dropped but I made a very good friend. We still stay in touch to this day.

Slack and other conferencing tools are game changers. People getting used to these tools is one silver lining to the pandemic.

Agreed, while I completely agree that in person is not the same as virtual, Slack makes it so that it's not as bad and I've made some good connections on slack. I check it every day and very much feel like I'm part of a community.

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