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Ada Lovelace Day...
Oct. 6th, 2011 10:27 pm...is actually tomorrow. I am unlikely to have time tomorrow for posting, though, so have a post now!
Anyway, Ada Lovelace Day is a blogging holiday for celebrating the women of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). For more information, see findingada.com. What you're supposed to do is write about a women in one of the STEM fields who has inspired you. There are a lot of amazing women in the sciences, and I really admire what they've done and how hard they've worked to get there. I don't have a specific woman I want to write about, but if any of you lady scientists/technologists/engineers/mathematicians are reading this, I want you to know that I think you rock. There are so many cool things to study, and I really admire people who find things they love enough to spend their whole lives studying and researching those things. And especially ladies, because it's been an uphill battle for so long.
You really do make a difference just by being there. I've had the privilege to study under and work for two awesome lady mathematicians at my college, and I look up to them a lot. It means so much to me to know that math is not just something men do, to have female role models in the department. They're warm, quirky, funny, brilliant, hardworking, patient people, and it's really obvious how much they love mathematics. And if you ever read this, MVA and LMC, I just want to say thank you.
BONUS: Because I love Marie Curie, Kate Beaton is a genius, and this is never not fantastic.
Anyway, Ada Lovelace Day is a blogging holiday for celebrating the women of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). For more information, see findingada.com. What you're supposed to do is write about a women in one of the STEM fields who has inspired you. There are a lot of amazing women in the sciences, and I really admire what they've done and how hard they've worked to get there. I don't have a specific woman I want to write about, but if any of you lady scientists/technologists/engineers/mathematicians are reading this, I want you to know that I think you rock. There are so many cool things to study, and I really admire people who find things they love enough to spend their whole lives studying and researching those things. And especially ladies, because it's been an uphill battle for so long.
You really do make a difference just by being there. I've had the privilege to study under and work for two awesome lady mathematicians at my college, and I look up to them a lot. It means so much to me to know that math is not just something men do, to have female role models in the department. They're warm, quirky, funny, brilliant, hardworking, patient people, and it's really obvious how much they love mathematics. And if you ever read this, MVA and LMC, I just want to say thank you.
BONUS: Because I love Marie Curie, Kate Beaton is a genius, and this is never not fantastic.
