I thought my blog was getting traffic, but...

[alicia]

turns out I didn't turn off my page views

[matrix82]

, Did the same thing myself on my blog. Just looked at your blog. I made a comment, but I wasn't logged into my wordpress account, so I lost it. Your post "when did this become the norm" resonated with me.

[alicia]

, Did the same thing myself on my blog. Just looked at your blog. I made a comment, but I wasn't logged into my wordpress account, so I lost it. Your post "when did this become the norm" resonated with me.

Thanks for taking a look maybe my page views increasing will be real now, haha.

[Skittles160]

Lol - I just took a look at your blog (see - now you'll have tons of traffic since this rant) - the last line in the "When did this become the norm" made me laugh -

"One other thing - to anyone in basic science - why didn't someone tell us to just be an engineer and get it all wrapped up in a Bachelor's degree without having eight years of science research with very little real world applicability?!"

...only 'cause I did engineering in school lol it's funny 'cause there were quite a number of people in science that had transferred over after 2 or 3 years of science.

Great blog btw!

[alicia]

"One other thing - to anyone in basic science - why didn't someone tell us to just be an engineer and get it all wrapped up in a Bachelor's degree without having eight years of science research with very little real world applicability?!"

...only 'cause I did engineering in school lol it's funny 'cause there were quite a number of people in science that had transferred over after 2 or 3 years of science.

Great blog btw!

My friends and I have the discussion about really wishing we actually discussed things with our high school guidance counselors on a semi-regular basis - playing the "if only I knew then..." Good on you for getting a degree you can work with!

Thanks by the way

[Darth Penguin]

HAh! back in the 1980's I was told no respectable woman should want to be a scientist/engineer..that was for the boyz.

[Jezebel]

my blog is traffic free .....for the same reason...sheesh !

[PurpleBunny89]

I read all your entrys, I liked them. I bookmarked your site under my "blogs" folder. Hopefully it won't become one of those updated in a blue moon blogs as I quite enjoyed reading.

[alicia]

HAh! back in the 1980's I was told no respectable woman should want to be a scientist/engineer..that was for the boyz.

No one ever said I was respectable, haha.

my blog is traffic free .....for the same reason...sheesh !

yeah, I thought there were actually people out, but it was just all me.

I read all your entrys, I liked them. I bookmarked your site under my "blogs" folder. Hopefully it won't become one of those updated in a blue moon blogs as I quite enjoyed reading.

I am going to try to update at least once a week, maybe twice. Whenever something is interesting to me. Thanks for bookmarking

[Skittles160]

HAh! back in the 1980's I was told no respectable woman should want to be a scientist/engineer..that was for the boyz.

And even now, I think it was maybe 20% women in engineering - that's still a lot more than it used to be but that's still low. We were told its the preconception that women want to help society and the belief that engineering doesn't do that. There's a lot of programs and recruitment out there now for "Women in Engineering" and trying to get girls in high school interested but its still a battle.

[marstec]

And even now, I think it was maybe 20% women in engineering - that's still a lot more than it used to be but that's still low. We were told its the preconception that women want to help society and the belief that engineering doesn't do that. There's a lot of programs and recruitment out there now for "Women in Engineering" and trying to get girls in high school interested but its still a battle.

I'm married to an engineer and our daughter is beginning her engineering studies in the Fall. I told her she would be in geek heaven...she just rolled her eyes.

[Natalka]

I'm married to an engineer and our daughter is beginning her engineering studies in the Fall. I told her she would be in geek heaven...she just rolled her eyes.

That's awesome - good for your daughter! What area of engineering? It's going to be a nice bonus that the new president of the U of S is an engineer.

[Natalka]

alicia - love your blog; I've bookmarked it, too!

[marstec]

That's awesome - good for your daughter! What area of engineering? It's going to be a nice bonus that the new president of the U of S is an engineer.

I think her focus will be bio-medical engineering. She really enjoys biology, but didn't want to get an arts degree. She thought of engineering because: Dad's an engineer and got through it, how hard could that be?

I'm horrible at math, so I'm pretty impressed she's going that route. She had an average of over 90% in grade 12 and that's taking into account some pretty intensive courses (calculus, physics and chemistry).

[alicia]

I'm married to an engineer and our daughter is beginning her engineering studies in the Fall. I told her she would be in geek heaven...she just rolled her eyes.

I hung out with a lot of engineers - our saying was "the odds were good but the goods were odd".

alicia - love your blog; I've bookmarked it, too!

Thanks so much Natalka