Priscilla's Adventures

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New Years Eve in Boston

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From a very fancy furniture store, I found curtains that matched the shape of this church

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I went to a very fancy furniture store in Boston and it has this inside it! 

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I went back to Amherst this weekend and things look much the same except they put Christmas decorations up

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Fall Hiking in Middlesex Fells

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A few photos from a walk around a park in Minneapolis 

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Minneapolis 

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Minneapolis Convention Center

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Minneapolis on a rainy day

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Some of the booths I saw at the Grace Hopper conference. The google booth was always packed! Facebook brought their own living room complete with a facebook wall. One company was giving out free digital caricatures and one was giving out manicures and nail polish.  

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Some of the talks I saw at Grace Hopper! 

In order:

Sheryl Sandberg(Author of Lean In) and two other women, including the president of Harvey Mudd who moved the percentage of women in CS from 13% to 45% discussing their work.

The director of Brave talking about her work including working on the story of Lion King, Beauty in the Beast, and the Little Mermaid.

Surviving Grad School

How to Write a Paper

How online courses can help women get into computer science

An awards ceremony for women doing great work in the field of Computer science

A google employee talking about all the work the google X is doing including the google driverless car, and a wifi balloon. 

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This week I went to a conference called Grace Hopper, which is just for women in Computer Science. As a minority in the field women often leave due to feeling alone or discriminated against. Grace Hopper helps women computer scientists meet other women and learn about how to get through the discrimination.