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I'm a computer science postdoc at the Salk Institute. We're having a big public event next Saturday (Walk for Salk) where we're also doing lab tours. Bring your daughter there and I'll give her an extra tour of the computational areas. (find me at avani@salk.edu)
You sound sexist. Are you sexist? Why female engineers? Are male engineers not up to the challenge of instructing your offspring?
When you see a comment that is truly toxic for HN, flag it by clicking "link" to go to the item page and then "flag" at the top.
Edit: Since I know some people have concerns about unpopular opinions being suppressed, perhaps I should add that it's not an unpopular opinion which is the problem here. It's the trollish content and vicious tone.
"she has 16 hours of gymnastics practice every week, which markedly improves the report from school and now she's in love with it so I can't talk her out of it. I've tried. So spring break would be ideal." This is going to sound harsh. So, essentially even though you have an available resource (FIRST) since your daughter would rather take gymnastics you are then going to push off this responsibility to a complete str…
Teaching your kid that work and obligations of life are more important than pursuing the things that make you happy leads to...
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Both of my sisters received NCAA scholarships for gymnastics. So it can lead to a free education, where her daughter might choose to study something STEM.
"so it can lead" Care to discuss the probability of that happening? I know someone who got an NCAA (or similar) scholarship for swimming. The rest of the team didn't.
It isn't always a full ride at a D1 school (only true for 2 out of about 30), but many got into schools they wouldn't have otherwise, others received partial D1 scholarships, and many others received large "leadership" scholarships at private D3 schools.
All this to say, there are some real benefits in the college process to competing at higher levels of high school athletics. Even if all the student gets is to spend a night on campus, and meet the entire team, and see the campus as a student, there's some real value to that.
I'm a computer science postdoc at the Salk Institute. We're having a big public event next Saturday (Walk for Salk) where we're also doing lab tours. Bring your daughter there and I'll give her an extra tour of the computational areas. (find me at avani@salk.edu)
Love Salk institute! very spiritual architecture too. I am not 12 year old but do you think i can get the tour ? :)
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Love Salk institute! very spiritual architecture too. I am not 12 year old but do you think i can get the tour ? :)
Indeed. In case you've never seen it, there is a great documentary on Louis Kahn, the architect, with beautiful footage of his works: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373175/
Totally get if gymanstics is taking a priority though :). Running and jumping and doing cool tricks is a ton of fun.
You sound sexist. Are you sexist? Why female engineers? Are male engineers not up to the challenge of instructing your offspring?
I'm so glad everyone downvoted you.
