Dif3r

It seems like a lot of girls who get into this field have parents who are already in STEM fields. Do you think that these fields should be more marketed towards girls who might not have that "advantage" of their parents sitting them down and teaching them stuff?

Just a bit of background about myself, my dad is an Engineer and mom was a Telecomms Systems Engineer (her credentials didn't transfer over here and the content she learned isn't really applicable here because everything is Digital and not Analogue anymore so she works as an Electronics Technologist). My brothers and I are all in STEM fields not because we were pushed to it but because we have a genuine interest in it after going to our parents' workplaces during take your kids to work day or whatever.

I wonder how many Digg refugees are there here on Reddit. If anyone remembers that old comic with the digg vs reddit war that was epic and will always be part of the lore/history.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/comments/6r5ctd/the_great_reddit_vs_digg_war_comics/

No it should be a patchwork of territory claimed by each side, then we can have something like that one pub that's split in the middle between the Netherlands and Belgium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog

Guy here, definitely guilty of treating a girl differently.

I actually "forgot" that one of my colleagues was a girl because she always blended in and wore baggy clothes and the like. Then I saw her in a summer dress and said "WOW I forgot that you were a girl". This was a girl that started the same time as me and I was OK friends with. We were in the second semester (Spring/Summer) of our 3rd year BTW.

Other than that, the girls who made it to the upper years (whether Math or Math/CS or CS) not really because they knew their crap and couldn't have made it any other way because of hardass profs from lower level courses. In fact I was dating a Math/CS double major for a while and she was definitely a better coder than I am, because of the stronger math background.

That's only my experience though. In industry it's a whole different ball game.

I took some hydrology classes before and I remember there was a concept about how much water you need for certain crops and whatnot and for shallow rooted stuff it should be less water more often (so you're not drowning your plants) depending on evapotranspiration rates. There actually is a formula but I don't know it off the top of my head, I put it into a spreadsheet and calculate based off that.