UCSD CSE Holiday Party

Party Organization: Jennifer Folkestad for leading the organizing effort together with Joyce Bernardo, Geoff Voelker, and Ariana Mirian.

Max Carreon, Hector Bracho, Megan Eastin, Ruben Huerta, Alex Matthews, and the AV Team at Calit2 for all the help with the online zoom support and video editing.

Danielle Elias and Sorin Lerner for Departmental Support.

Year-in-Review

UCSD CSE Year in Review 2020
album Complete Album (Photos: Various including Nishant Bhaskar, Paul Cao, Henrik Christensen, Rajesh Gupta, Esra Hembrough, Beichen Lyu, Niema Moshiri, Leo Porter, Audrey Randall, Stefan Savage, Tierra Terrell, Geoff Voelker)

Skit Videos

We have multiple versions of the videos for your viewing pleasure:

Live Stream (All Skits)

Grad Skit


Credits: See the many individual student videos for the full credit listings.

Staff Skit: Working from Home


Credits (acting and design): David Bareño (what do I get), Joyce Bernardo (running the zoom meeting during pool game), Hector Bracho (editing, effects), Alessa Lopez (playing pool) Alice Carr (playing pool), Caitlin Dempsey (cat video), Danielle Elias (video diary), Jennifer Folkestad (producer, zoom, interstitials), Diane Girling (tractor), Nataly Herrera (ice cream video), Glenn Little (short-run in the hallway), James Martinez (roommate video), Patrick Mallon (drinks), Matthew Scott (all alone).

Faculty Skit: Deadline Mode (extended version)


Credits: Nadia Polikarpova (lyrics, acting, vocals, directing), Deian Stefan (music, video editing, acting, fire), Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick (driving, guitar), Nadia Heninger (acting, dancing), Sorin Lerner (acting), Shachar Lovett (acting), Julian McAuley (piano), Pat Pannuto (acting), Joe Politz (acting, parenting), Aaron Schulman (acting, broom, drums, picture selection), Stefan Savage (whistling? humming? something), Dean Tullsen (dancing), Jishen Zhao (ukulele). Old Town Road — Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.

Grad Skit: Individual Videos

The student skit was a medley of many wonderful individual videos.

Zoom Lecture


Credits: Sunjay Cauligi (acting), Ben Du (acting), Stewart Grant (acting), Alex Liu (acting, editing), Ariana Mirian (acting), Alisha Ukani (acting), Shu-Ting Wang (acting), Shu-Ting's cat (purring), Anil Yelam (acting).

We Didn't Put The Bugs In (parody)


Credits: Robert Ariniello (slides), Sam Crow (editing), Stewart Grant (lyrics, slides), Ariana Mirian (lyrics), Audrey Randall (lyrics, slides, editing, vocals), Jessica Sorrell (lyrics, slides).

Conspiracy #1


Credits: Stewart Grant featuring Stew's socks.

Planted!


Credits: Stewart Grant, Sophie Krause Levy, Audrey Randall, Brendan Rouse, Jessica Sorrell.

Animal Crossing with Real Animals


Credits: Ben Du, Stewart Grant, Sophie Krause Levy, Jessica Sorrell, Bacon (hognose #1), Chalupa (ball python), Egg (hognose #2), Yuffie (cat), Zuzu (dog).

Conspiracy #2


Credits: Alisha Ukani (writing, acting).

All Alone #1


Credits: Nishant Bhaskar (acting), Alex Liu (editing), Ariana Mirian (music).

Conspiracy #3


Credits: Crowbat Router.

Conspira-CSE


Credits: Olivia Weng (writing, acting).

This Year (parody)


Credits: Lixiang Ao (editing), Max Hopkins (lead vocals), Ariana Mirian (guitar, vocals), Audrey Randall (vocals), Jessica Sorrell (drums, editing).

All Alone #2


Credits: Nishant Bhaskar (acting), Alex Liu (editing), Ariana Mirian (music).