SevenStarSonata

If you ever hit up Florida again, the University of Central Florida has an organization called Swing Knights that first introduced me to swing dancing. It's a LOT of fun, and you'd seriously be the star of the night if you ever came. :) I'm SO glad to hear life is pretty good, keep being awesome!

As a young woman pursuing a degree in STEM (Two, actually - physics and astrophysics), I definitely wonder this, too. Sally Ride was my hero growing up, and now that we've lost her, I'm really wondering who's going to be the hero for the next generation of science-minded young women. In my school's entire college of science, we have only a single female professor (and not a single female professor in the college of engineering), and I'd really, REALLY like to see that change. The cost and time you have to put it to get anywhere in STEM in the US is ENORMOUS, so there has to be some kind of real motivation for today's youth to get into it.