Originally posted on Nerds and Words:
1. The overwhelming male majority
Yes, I knew going in that electrical engineering is a male dominated major. But there’s a huge difference between knowing something intellectually and being able to comprehend what that means. My intro to electronics class is maybe fifteen percent female.
2. Forgetting how to write
My sister is four years older than me. She majored in neuroscience, and for years, she’s been making fun of me for wanting to go into engineering and telling me about how all the engineering students she knows have terrible grammar and can’t write anything comprehensible. I always thought that was just a stereotype.
I placed out of the freshman writing and research course, and the writing component of my history gen ed is not even remotely strenuous. So only a few short months after coming to university, I’ve begun to lose any writing skills I ever had. If it’s already gotten…
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