Blogging from the X-Lab

I strolled into CS325: Databases and Transaction Systems with fingers crossed. I looked around—all boys, yet again. There are only two other female CS majors (read: my support group) and the class is an elective, so the odds were decidedly not in my favor. I’ve been in many classes that were all boys, but none with a group project worth 40% of the grade. Uh Oh. Alas, just as Jill was about to start, Jeanette slid into the chair next to me. My partner in crime had arrived.

As it turns out, Jill wants us to work in groups of three. I ambushed Jim (read: brilliant kid exempt from all 100-level CS courses). He readily agreed. Girl power + boy genius = dream team. Breathing a very big sigh of relief…