I earned perfect scores on my CS classes at a large state university. I was also a T.A. for a computer architecture lab where students had to write 68000 assembly. (Aside: when I took that class, the T.A. was a woman.)
Now this was the mid-90s and there were not many women in my classes. I search my memory for the experiences described in this article, of T.A.'s mocking students, of getting frustrated with students, of "dumb" girls. I just can't remember anything like that. There were a handful of students like myself for which certain subjects just clicked. And there were a handful that it seemed like they just were never going to get it. But for most, it was this middle ground of having to work hard to understand. Not everyone of my classes was a breeze either. I must've pulled my hair out in my compilers class three times over.
Mostly, this just sounds like the struggle of being a student. But I guess everyone focuses their experiences through a certain lens. I hope I'm not criticising here... mostly just thinking out loud.
Now this was the mid-90s and there were not many women in my classes. I search my memory for the experiences described in this article, of T.A.'s mocking students, of getting frustrated with students, of "dumb" girls. I just can't remember anything like that. There were a handful of students like myself for which certain subjects just clicked. And there were a handful that it seemed like they just were never going to get it. But for most, it was this middle ground of having to work hard to understand. Not everyone of my classes was a breeze either. I must've pulled my hair out in my compilers class three times over.
Mostly, this just sounds like the struggle of being a student. But I guess everyone focuses their experiences through a certain lens. I hope I'm not criticising here... mostly just thinking out loud.