http://www.twentyhood.com/2006/07/09/men-suck/ a podcast about life as a twenty-something Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:56:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.twentyhood.com/2006/07/09/men-suck/#comment-2023 twentyhood. Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:21:00 +0000 http://www.twentyhood.com/2006/07/09/men-suck/#comment-2023 [...] I found this interesting as a Engineering Degree-holder-but-non-practicer. I observed that over the course of my university years, the ratio of men to women in my classes leveled out some, leading me to conclude that it’s on the men who drop out. There was a similar article posted back in July. One positive by-product of the increased number of female engineering students is that we can finally have enough of a population to choose from, allowing a few geeky-and-entrepreneurial students to put together the Girls of Engineering photo calendar. I chuckled when I saw this because most of the girls I went to school with were, shall we say, average. This brings to mind a funny quote when Chris O’Brien remarked, about Kate Allen, who I sort of had a crush on at one point, “She’s pretty good-looking for an engineer”. Ouch. [...] [...] I found this interesting as a Engineering Degree-holder-but-non-practicer. I observed that over the course of my university years, the ratio of men to women in my classes leveled out some, leading me to conclude that it’s on the men who drop out. There was a similar article posted back in July. One positive by-product of the increased number of female engineering students is that we can finally have enough of a population to choose from, allowing a few geeky-and-entrepreneurial students to put together the Girls of Engineering photo calendar. I chuckled when I saw this because most of the girls I went to school with were, shall we say, average. This brings to mind a funny quote when Chris O’Brien remarked, about Kate Allen, who I sort of had a crush on at one point, “She’s pretty good-looking for an engineer”. Ouch. [...]

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