Two years and I still have not adjusted to this male:female ratio

[Azwed]

I switched majors from Engineering to Poli Sci with a Communications minor(concentrating in journalism/international comm) two years ago this semester.

In an average engineering class we would have at most 6 or 7 girls in a 20 to 30 person class. My roommate has 2 to 3 girls in most of his engineering classes although he is a mining engineer and very few women go into that field. I think there are labout a dozen women undergrads in his whole department which has a couple of hundered undergrad students.


I walk into one of my comm classes and generaly the class is 2/3's or more female. The public relations class I am taking that has around 300 people in it seems to be nearly 3/4's female.

My poli Sci classes are about a 60:40 split between men and women which is about the same as the overall population of tech. I think the current freshman class is 57% men and 43% women or so.

Just something I wanted to comment on that I found interesting. Another thing that is interesting here is that the math classes that I took were also about a 60:40 split betwen men and women as well. Science classes were about the same perhaps a little closer to a 50:50 split.

 

[huskie]

Are you complaining?? Thats one thing I hated about engineering. Was the lack of women to hit on...... love pats only of course

 

[glamorilla]

the ratio of men to women at the fashion institute was like one to fifty and like 90% of the guys were gay.

 

[KillerMuffin]

There's 8 women in my comp sci lecture. There are 75 students.

 

[glamorilla]

translation: if you want to hit on college girls take a class at an art school.

 

[freescorfr]

One of my former girlfriends was an engineer. In my alpha male days her rarety was an attraction. Her speciality was railway bridges: either on them or beneath them. Usually at 4.00am

 

[Azwed]

Not complaining just rambling i guess.

We do have on engineering prof here at tech who does not belive women should be in engineering. In order to pass some of the intro level engineering courses you have to get a C- or better. He does not actually explicitly say that he will only give women in his class a C- but he does just about everything but that. He won't fail any of the women but he will only give them a C- no better and since these are your very first engineering classes you take that C- really kills your GPA your freshman year. Many women in his class drop it when they find ot he is the prof and try to get into another class.


Last semester this guy had several lawsuits agianst him but as far as I know nothing has been resolved yet. That damn tenure thing can be a real bitch. Two of my old engineering profs have zero respect for him. He was in charge of one particular section of classes I was taking once and my prof normaly just threw out the quizes and hw that he made up for all the classes to use and made up his own.

 

[Azwed]

One of my former girlfriends was an engineer. In my alpha male days her rarety was an attraction. Her speciality was railway bridges: either on them or beneath them. Usually at 4.00am

Thats wrong


KM:
I have never taken any CS classes here so I don't know how things are from first hand experience. What friends of mine have told me however is that the ratios are about the same as most engneering majors. Maybe slightly more then some majors, like Mining, EE and ME that are still very male dominated, but less then Chemical engineering and Materials science engineering that generaly have many more women.

 

[Texan]

I have no sympathy. I was a physics major. Try finding a woman in a college physics class.

 

[lovetoread]

In my class I am one of only 2 women.

Sometimes the maleness is overwhelming.

 

[huskie]

Not complaining just rambling i guess.

We do have on engineering prof here at tech who does not belive women should be in engineering. In order to pass some of the intro level engineering courses you have to get a C- or better. He does not actually explicitly say that he will only give women in his class a C- but he does just about everything but that. He won't fail any of the women but he will only give them a C- no better and since these are your very first engineering classes you take that C- really kills your GPA your freshman year. Many women in his class drop it when they find ot he is the prof and try to get into another class.


Last semester this guy had several lawsuits agianst him but as far as I know nothing has been resolved yet. That damn tenure thing can be a real bitch. Two of my old engineering profs have zero respect for him. He was in charge of one particular section of classes I was taking once and my prof normaly just threw out the quizes and hw that he made up for all the classes to use and made up his own.

or wear shorter skirts........

 

[Willing and Unsure]

I'm an engineering major here. I rather like the male female ratio. It still scares me when I walk into a psych class I'm taking for an elective and see other females. It's almost scary actually.

But I'd say in most of my classes (excluding electives) there's maybe 5 to 10 women out of about 100

 

[freescorfr]

Thats wrong

Right on, Awzed, and with KM on the thread, too. It should have read "rarity".

 

[Azwed]

I have no sympathy. I was a physics major. Try finding a woman in a college physics class.

Yeah but you were a physics major back like i the 30's or something right?

Women did not go to college then.

 

[Texan]

Yeah but you were a physics major back like i the 30's or something right?

Women did not go to college then.

hahaha.... smartass...

I graduated from high school in 1973, then spent the next nine years in college. Believe it or not, women were allowed to go to college back then. We even had co-ed dorms and lots of modern stuff like that. And guess what, I never even owned a slide-rule. (although you can now buy a calculator for $9.99 that will do everything my $149.00 H.P. did back then.)

Seems that the more things change, the more they remain the same. (I think I've heard that somewhere.)

 

[huskie]

I'm an engineering major here. I rather like the male female ratio. It still scares me when I walk into a psych class I'm taking for an elective and see other females. It's almost scary actually.

But I'd say in most of my classes (excluding electives) there's maybe 5 to 10 women out of about 100

WOW!!! A beautiful female engineer!! you don't see that everyday.

 

[Never]

The majority of female engineers are ugly, what an original idea.

 

[huskie]

The majority of female engineers are ugly, what an original idea.

yet not all. I had one that was a soils engineer. she was on a job site in Woodlynn, NJ (a real hell hole), during the excavation work. When on to the job site comes a pimp from across the street. He asked her to come work for him in the evenings!!!!! We threw him off the job site but gave her hell about it for the rest of the week

 

[KillerMuffin]

English Lit is 90% female and about 75% *giggle giggle tee hee aren't I sexy?* Morons. There are four men in the class. They don't care.

Chem 1 is split in the middle. It's one of those requirements to graduate things. I feel like a moron.

Calc is pretty even as well. I'm the oldest person in the class.

Fundamentals of programming has 8 girls out of 75 and a few people who are saying, "couldn't you just make a loop out of that array?" on the first day when the prof was showing us how to do a system.out.println. Puhleeze, moronass, no one thinks you're special. Only three of the women are actually comp sci/info sci or engineering majors. The business college requires that they take this class for some odd offshoot of a degree.

Sociology is split 45% guys 45% women and 10% football players who just CANNOT SHUT UP DURING CLASS!!!! It's pretty sad when even your buddies won't sit next to you cause you're a moron!

 

[Never]

KillerMuffin:
"Fundamentals of programming has 8 girls out of 75 and a few people who are saying, "couldn't you just make a loop out of that array?" on the first day when the prof was showing us how to do a system.out.println. Puhleeze, moronass, no one thinks you're special. "

'Moronass'? I'm a moronass?
It's not my fault that college's require everyone to take a intro to programming regardless of their skill level.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I think I'm offending you a lot lately.

I seriously doubt that you'll want to add a loop to a println when the purpose of putting out the println was to show the class what println does, not what a loop does. A loop will not teach anyone what println is for. Do you have a burning need to show off your programming knowledge by injecting incorrect command lines into a method? If you answered yes, then you're a moronass.

Most of the people who know this stuff have the good grace to do their homework, sleep, or read the newspaper during this kind of incredibly boring activity. Luckily, the professor has the good grace to tell them to sit in the back so they can do something more interesting while he's lecturing the ones who aren't in the know, though please stick around in case you pick up on something new.

 

[Never]

I don’t recall you ever offending me. Then again, I’ve known you for awhile so something might have happened a year or so ago that I’ve forgotten.

As the class is costing me several thousand dollars, you will forgive me if I don’t feel like sitting in the back and reading a newspaper.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Not offended? Okay. This is just the second time today that you've found something I've said to be personally insulting.

You're paying for my classes, too, so don't get too underwhelmed by my cheap-o state university.

 

[KillerMuffin]

On a completely unrelated note.

I took trig and college algebra over the summer.

I have completely forgotten everything I learned in the space of three weeks.

That bites.

 

[Never]

No, I’m not paying for your education, we’re in different states.

Now I have no idea what you’re talking about. I thought moronass was a rather funny attribute and I didn’t say you had no right to be peeved, I said the college was at fault. If I were insulted by you you’d get a PM in your box asking you why you were pissed at me.

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What was the other time today?