My classes

So I realized that I don't think I have shared what I am even doing this quarter! Here is a snippet:

History of Women and Gender in Science, Medicine, and Engineering:
This is a class in the STS core. We look at how gender issues and biases have contributed to development and research in science, medicine, and engineering. Today, my teacher was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! Her biggest project is on this project called Gendered Innovations. The case studies are extremely informative and interesting. You can check out the website at genderedinnovations.stanford.edu. I am taking the class with Ethan. We have had some incredible conversations about the class. We think its important to talk and discuss gender issues but we think that occasionally the class puts a lot of blame on white males and focusses too much on a single problem.

Media and the Message:
Thinking matters is a required class for freshman that encourages students to think about subjects in new ways and from new angles. My class is called Media and the Message. It is taught by a History of Science Professor and a Film Studies Professor. We have interesting readings about performance, perception, media as extensions of the body, and thinking about cities as stories. My teaching fellow for the class got her PhD at the University of New Mexico and so we instantly connected.

CS 106B - Programming Abstractions:
I am bravely taking on a second Computer Science but still really enjoying it. I am learning C++ and thankful that I still have my dad to help me out. We are doing recursion upon recursion upon recursion. And if you don't know what recursion is, just think of a tree. According to Randy, anytime someone thinks tree, they think recursion.

Oral Communication Teaching Practicum:
This is a training class to become a Oral Communication Tutor next year. We offer free tutoring to students and grad students for helping them out with all stages of the presentation process. We also work closely with PWR2 classes. PWR2 is the sophomore required writing class that focusses on presentation more so than paper writing.

Oh! and of course I can't forget to say Yoga :)