I have absolutely no spatial skills at all - I think this is more related to the fact that my eyesight is really terrible than anything else. I loved Biology and Physics in school, did not enjoy geometry and respected Calculus, but never really wanted to get all that serious with it. Alegebra and I were hot and heavy at first and then that passion waned as I learned there was more involved than just quadratic equations.
I also had parents (well, mom) that pushed the hard sciences. When I say pushed - I mean, if you were not premed - then why the hell are you in college? pushed. And I didn't really get that (mom's a teacher, dad's a farmer) but it did work. Dawn's a doctor and David (before he died) was premed with incredible grades and I *tried* to be a Biology major, I did. I tried twice.
And I wasn't cut out for it at all - it was not where my intrinsic strengths lie. But I don't think that has any more to do with my sex than the fact that I really like comic books or dogs. I just am this person.
I do think there are basic differences to how our minds are wired (male v female) and I am fascinated by the study of this -- but I think when the President of Harvard starts using this as a basis that must be disproven for why women are not comprising 50% of the field - we have a problem.
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Date: 2005-02-18 09:10 pm (UTC)I also had parents (well, mom) that pushed the hard sciences. When I say pushed - I mean, if you were not premed - then why the hell are you in college? pushed. And I didn't really get that (mom's a teacher, dad's a farmer) but it did work. Dawn's a doctor and David (before he died) was premed with incredible grades and I *tried* to be a Biology major, I did. I tried twice.
And I wasn't cut out for it at all - it was not where my intrinsic strengths lie. But I don't think that has any more to do with my sex than the fact that I really like comic books or dogs. I just am this person.
I do think there are basic differences to how our minds are wired (male v female) and I am fascinated by the study of this -- but I think when the President of Harvard starts using this as a basis that must be disproven for why women are not comprising 50% of the field - we have a problem.
That and he really is just a dick - ya know?