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You can't live your life based on speculation... Unless your an engineer then everything is based on assumptions.

I am one of the proud few female engineers in the United States. Graduated from University of California Riverside with a Mechanical Engineering Degree with a minor in Mathematics! #makethemmainstream #mtm #womeninstem #womenengineers #11%

Tell us your story on how you are a STEM Ambassador!

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Sylvia Earle is a marine biologist, explorer, author, and lecturer. She is the founder of Deep Ocean Exploration and Research, Inc., the founder of Mission Blue and SEAlliance. She also led the first team of women aquanauts during the Tektite Project in 1970.

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Sometimes you need advice from someone who has been there. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for development of the radioimmunoassay technique.

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Given to me by a friend and signed by an actual Rosie! #famous #rosietheriveter #makethemmainstream #historyinpictures

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Sarah Parcak is an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and remote sensing expert. She has been using satellite imaging to change the world of archeaology. #mtm #makethemmainstream#womeninstem #archaeology #sarakparcak

When we think of women in science we usually think about Marie Curie, but obiviously for a good reason. Especially when she is known to drop advice like this: "We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

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There is always a good book to be read. The STEM section at Barnes and Nobel is growing and I am so happy about that. Now there are even more nerd books I can't wait to get a hold of. #reading #makethemmainstream #barnesandnoble #stem #stemreading (at Barnes & Noble)

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Neurobiologist, won the Nobel Prize for her discovery of growth factors in 1986. Sometimes life is going to be hard, sometimes everyone is going to be against you. But if you chose to see these shortcomings and the discrimination as a powerful force of motivation and good then you can prove them all wrong.

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Neurobiologist, won the Nobel Prize for her discovery of growth factors in 1986. Sometimes life is going to be hard, sometimes everyone is going to be against you. But if you chose to see these shortcomings and the discrimination as a powerful force of motivation and good then you can prove them all wrong.

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Just in case you need a large dose of encouragement http://empowering.hearst.co.uk/be-inspired/10-inspiring-quotes-from-women-in-science/

You don't have to be successful to have important words to share. You don't have to seek adventure to create new ideas. The experiences you have everyday can lead to inspiration.

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Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was the first African-American woman to recieve a PhD in Economics in the United States. We still have to knock doors down inorder to make our way through the STEM fields. However, thanks to women like her we some of the doors have already been knocked down, and some doors we can walk through freely.

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hurricane-euler

Hi! I'm about to pursue a degree in mathematics. Throughout high school, the farthest I got in math courses was AP Calculus AB. I was good in class, and enjoyed the subject, I'm just worried that I don't have an adequate mathematical foundation to go through this curriculum. I'm enrolled to take Calc. I in the fall, and my question is: At this point in my education, will my background or my ambition matter more? Because I'm willing to work as hard as I have to.

Colleges don’t expect high school students to know any math further than calculus, if even that.

As for background vs. ambition: From what you’re saying, you’ll do great. I’ve said it over and over, the best way to be good at math is to work hard at it. Practice beats talent any day.

Though background/foundation does matter some; math classes build on previous math classes. If you don’t know algebra, you won’t be able to do calculus. But many things you’ll either remember because you’re using them, or forget because you’re not using them so you don’t need to know them anyway. And if you forget, say, partial fraction decomposition (bane of my existence I stg) you can always look it up.

Basically, if you don’t have an adequate foundation you’ll figure it out pretty quick because you’ll find something you should know how to do, but don’t. When that happens (and it always happens, the question is just how often) your textbook, wolfram alpha, and google are your friends (just don’t plagiarize it’ll only screw you in the long run).

I hope that answered your question! If not, my inbox is open.

ariodante

I can add! I never even took AP calc (my school had some, shall we say, issues when it came to scheduling), so I had to start with calc I in college, and am still perfectly on track for a math major (and I have two other majors on top of that, and am still on track). There were a lot of holes in my math education that I discovered once I started. For example, hilariously enough, I had never even heard of a factorial before I saw all these exclamation points showing up on my homework. But no worries, since I was able to spend a quick afternoon learning what they were all about and then I was back on track. Ambition for the win. And go to office hours! Even if you aren’t having any trouble in classes building that rapport really helps you out when you’re looking for internships and recommendation letters. Just dive straight in. By my first semester as a lowly calc I student I was already offering feedback on my professor’s theses and reports because I had just straight-up asked if they knew of any internship positions available. And go to every special event and presentation they have. And don’t be afraid to ask super basic questions. Maybe not in the middle of class, but during office hours is great. People respect your dedication and confidence. And that doesn’t just go for math btw. I was at a research conference recently and one of the presenters was a physics PhD student discussing her research in some crazy physics things I had never even heard of. And the thing about research conferences is that there are usually a lot of impressive people there. And it looks really good if you ask a lot of questions to the presenters about their research. And I couldn’t follow a damned thing anyone was talking about, but that didn’t deter me from asking questions. I didn’t have enough background to ask anything complex, so I just raised my hand and started asking for basic definitions of terms. Most of the people in the audience weren’t physics students either, but I was the only person with audacity to just shamelessly start for the fundamentals. And afterwards the head of my school’s Office of Prestigious Scholarships (so the guy who prepares students to apply for the Fulbright or the Marshall, and those insane things) came up to me and complimented me on the questions I asked and encouraged me to make an appointment with him. I did. I am now being prepped to apply for a full grant to get my PhD in Germany. All this from someone who didn’t even know what a freaking factorial was when she started her math major. Who cares about background, honestly. Some people have awesome backgrounds in math, and all the power to them. But some people went to underfunded schools or had bad life circumstances or just hadn’t learned to love math until they got to college. You can’t change your background. So just get yourself some grit.

I think we can all be better at looking at life without our gender glasses on. Can we agree that it doesn't matter who you are or what you identify as, you can be in STEM, you can do anything you choose. #womeninstem #mtm #makethemmainstream #genderequality #equality #maybrittmoser

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