Is AI hurting TCIS students? Ms. Vasquez weighs in

Public use of generative AI has been on an exponential rise since ChatGPT’s release in late 2022. While previous techniques existed prior to ChatGPT, such as generative adversarial networks (GAN), ChatGPT was a significant leap forward in its ability to produce images, video and audio.  From AI generated images being featured in advertisements to the […] Read More →

Miku Expo 2025 in Seoul

Hatsune Miku is one of the voicebanks included in the singing voice synthesizer software called Vocaloid. The voicebank is represented as a girl with long, turquoise twintails, a mascot that soon became a global icon. Despite having an official design, Miku’s character is open to artistic interpretation, which opens up a wide range of creative […] Read More →

Miku plushie at Miku concert

Was This Year’s CSAT a “Fire Suneung?”

The Korean College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), commonly known as 수능 (Suneung), holds tremendous weight in Korean culture, especially among students. The examination plays a large role in university applications. Some students in Korean education apply to universities with only their CSAT score, similarly to how IB students may apply with only their final IB […] Read More →

Suneung sample question