This has been THE BEST class for me.
I grew up a little girl wanting to mimic my dad (programmer) and brothers (now programmer and engineer), but I rarely fit in with other little girls because I was always playing with computer and science stuff. The boys went through everything from the cooties phase to the awkward-around-girls phase, and even among other nerds, geeks, and dorks I always felt alone, strange, and rejected, which was a huge contribution to the low self-esteem, feelings of ineptitude and no motivation, garbled identity, and social anxiety that I struggled with for years.
My teacher in this class is an accomplished woman, and a lot of the reading we're doing right now is history. There's tons of women in there, from visionary 18th century mathematicians to some of the very first programmers. I've often felt like I don't "belong" here, and that so many people don't want me here except maybe as a potential girlfriend, but this is evidence to me that I belong here as much as any of my classmates, if not more because I actually take my studies seriously.
I'm also so glad I'm in college, where people are finally growing up a little.
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