By way of background, I’m a graduate student. I pay my bills by teaching undergraduate labs. Every week, the students turn in their lab notebooks to me, and I grade them.
Well, this week, one of the students had left a scrap of paper in his notebook as a bookmark, at the beginning of the lab to be graded. Said scrap of paper had apparently been previously used to pass notes between him and a friend, and a narrative emerges.
“Hey, red girl just totally checked you out!”
“Red girl is cute. What do I do?”
“Go over and talk to her”
“What should I say?”
“One of her books is ‘fluid dynamics’, that sounds like a physics book. Say something about physics, so you’ll have something in common”
“Stand next to red girl and ask the girl next to her if you can borrow her laptop to look up something for physics class”
“Quick, say something to her, or she’ll think we’re a couple”
Part of me is rooting for this kid (note: I don’t know whether my student is the advice-giver or the one needing advice), and part of me is wondering who this cute red girl is who’s taking fluid mechanics courses.
Damn! I never found anything as interesting as that in the lab reports I graded. Usually a lot of ungrammatical sentences and improperly spelled words, and some very idiosyncratic formatting (like the one that started in one corner and spiraled around the page into the center).
We had a saying for the girls at the engineering school I attended.
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The odds are good but the goods are odd
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We had a better ratio than Unintentionally Blank, but it was still definitely more guys than girls. The current ratio is about 3:1 according to this page.
We had a better ratio than Unintentionally Blank, but it was still definitely more guys than girls. The current ratio is about 3:1 according to this page.
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We said the same thing about the guys in our physics classes.
Bah. Chemical Engineering was 50:50, even the many years ago when I was in college. My current intern says that the girls in ChE now outnumber the boys.
We had a better ratio than Unintentionally Blank, but it was still definitely more guys than girls. The current ratio is about 3:1 according to this page.
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It was 11:1 when I started there and ~7:1 when I left. I am glad to see they have continued to reduce the ratio. I remember I went to a (one) frat party there as a freshman, they had invited a bunch of girls from Golden High School. I started hanging around in Boulder after that.
It’s really scary too, my daughter will start attending Golden High in a couple of years. :eek: Well, hopefully it will be 1:1 by then.
