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To: CottonBall
Hey, I got an engineering degree when I was the only woman in the class. I graduated second in my class.

Congrats. I remember engineering school I think there were five women, two or three graduated. Don't know what year you were in but back in the later 70's early 80's there just wasn't that much interest with women in engineering. That is cool!

131 posted on 12/19/2017 7:35:07 PM PST by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: Karliner

Thanks, I graduated in 1981. Yeah, we were a rarity. And I had to pull my own weight to verify that I belonged there. I’ve always loved math so it came pretty easily to me. I tutored engineering on campus my junior and senior year. The professors and my fellow students eventually got to see me as just one of them. However, there was another woman in some of my classes who they said was just there for an MRS degree. She really didn’t do any worse than some of the guys, but you know how they talk…


136 posted on 12/19/2017 7:56:32 PM PST by CottonBall (Thank you, Julian!)
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