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Black Woman in STEM

Most girls I know of want to be nurses, nursing majors, Education majors, Business majors, phycology majors, etc. That's why when i tell girls i meet or talk to on campus that I'm a computer science major they look at me with a confusion. But honestly, i find myself very confused too. I have no prior experience, no coding background, and most importantly i have no desire to purse anything in the tech field. I want to be a cop, then afterwards a FBI Special Agent. Also a not so common career pursed by women. Especially black women.

A little about being a comp sci major as a person with ABSOLUTLY NO experience, it is literal hell at first. I am always thinking i'm behind in something, or i am behind in something. My grades, horrible. Mostly C's with an A and B in there with about 2-3 F's. And what's worse is the F's will most likely be the classes where you won't have a lot of work and the work you do have, doesn't count for much so then you have to rely on tests. If you do bad on said test, grade plumets to the depths of hell. And it's torture trying to get it back up. 
Being that i basically have to teach and re-teach myself all the material and it does take a while to genuinely stick and understand, it does not help that college classes go so fast. College is veryyyyy fast paced and if you can't keep up then your on your own. I am on my own. 

Computer science is a very rewarding major because internships, summer jobs, and opportunities are everywhere in this field. Big job opportunities that promise $23/hr just to sit in and learn from pros. See, very rewarding. But i think if i actually wanted to do something in the field it would only be for the money. Not because i love coding and have a ball creating databases for big corporations.


link to pvamu comp sci department (tell em i sent ya)
https://www.pvamu.edu/engineering/departments/cs

link to my sources (so you know im not just throwing out the allegation that most women do not prefer to be stem majors lol)
https://www.aauw.org/resources/article/fast-facts-woc-higher-ed/

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