SEAS Barbie?
Alexis (of reddit) wrote an amusing post about the evils of Teen Talk Barbie. And Benjamin Zimmer writes a more detailed story about the history of the whole "math is hard, let's go shopping" phrase.
When I was a little girl, my parents didn't think to buy me a Barbie. They were anti-consumerist tree-hugging hippies, who were opposed to our culture's objectification of women. Instead they bought me books, like "Number Analysis" and "Advanced Number Analysis." That is really too bad. If I had Teen Talk Barbie to tell me that "math class is hard" and "let's go shopping," I wouldn't have spent so many years studying Engineering. Maybe, I would've gone to Barnard (oh snap!) and become a ... I don't know, what professions do most attractive women with an across-the-street-from-an-Ivy education hold... a reporter?
We need School of Engineering and Applied Science Barbie - "stochastic modeling is hard"..."let's major in communications."
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oh snap indeed!!! there you go again, bashing barnard. if not for barnard, i would've never had a single date in college.
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w00t! I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've ever been linked to by another blogger.
Oh, Irina, you spoil me.
funny funny. love the "across-the-street-from-an-ivy" part. we have one of those in cambridge too, you know!
i should be offended, only you are right! about barnard, that is. i admire engineering girls. all three of you.
and since you were enjoying rather lucrative employment last time we met, i suspect that all those hours spent studying engineering payed off somehow.
to kn0thing: I always felt like your blog was very much under the radar. Spread the word.
to Sarika: I feel it necessary to point out that the last time we met, I was working on Wall Street. That's probably where that *currently incorrect* notion of lucrative employment originated.
hey irina from what i hear it's still pretty lucrative, and you dont have to worry about tuition either.
perl is hard, let's program in php.
I am not even sure who that crack is aimed at. PHP is pretty hard too, I hear.
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