should I go into a math/computer science major?

BrownParent
Thu, 17 Apr 2014 21:46:06 +0000

Try an introductory class when you are in college. My daughter went into CS and was only one of about 6 females in the dept. So yeah, women are very underrepresented. It can create certain opportunities. See if when you are in college you can go to the Grace Hopper conference for women in technology. She is also very outgoing and personable and did not come from a geeky techie type background, just good at math and more interested in science and research. She started doing sciences and did a lot of math because of physics and once she took a CS class it really clicked for her. She had a research oriented department and focused on that and went to grad school to do research. Many people did internships in summer but she did research. She did stuff with facial recognition software, a big cryptography project focusing on e-cash security, and robotics and computer vision for example. She did do internships in grad school for extra money. She was a math-cs major so has a lot more math than most CS people. You will find a variety of type of people in the classroom.