Carter Leslie is a software engineer at USAA who enrolled in UT Austin's online Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence program in fall 2024. Who or what surprised you most about being part of UT Computer Science (UTCS), and what would you tell your first-day self? The deep learning classes, Deep Learning and Advanced Deep Learning, are genuinely great. The final project from Advanced Deep Learning really stuck with me. That taught me something the project wasn't even really designed to teach: the metric you use to evaluate a model matters.