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I've had to lift bots to repair them or work on them, (or to keep them up while my friend worked on them) but they haven't been all that heavy or I've had help. I think it's a girls shouldn't work with tools thing and misplaced chivalry. Don't remind me. I just volunteered for a recruitment...

Yes, though endearments have generally been filtered out in light of sexual harassment lawsuits and the like. I don't mind some profs using 'em, but it's totally situation/context/culture/personality dependent. I haven't either, but in one of my classes a prof was obviously going far easier on...

Because when she's new to the group, it has the potential to scare her away, which is basically what happened to friend of mine when she came with me. This one poor girl becomes the main object of focus/has the spot-light on her and she's already a minority in the group, and making her standout...

That sounds a bit high, though I think my family(4 people) can top out at around $1000/month before we factor in restaurants. Food costs me about $100-$150 every three weeks for groceries (this is buying for just me and my roommate) but if I factor in how rarely I cook I'd go with about...

Your post was just the jumping off point, it seriously had nothing in it that read "go stalk female nerds now" or the like. Sorry that it seemed that I took it that way. I was trying to make the general point that if you're going to go into geek space, don't treat it like a field trip (and...

We try, we really do. The assignment for my next women in tech meetup is to bring a friend and I went to my LUG (linux users group) today and there were two other girls (though my local LUG also suffers from a serious lack of people under 30). If you want women, sneak into your local chemE...

Depends totally on the prof, though I figure he will want you to check in once in a blue moon regardless. But yeah, if it's something that doesn't require specialized equipment, many professors don't care if you're physically in the lab all the time. Some professors manage telecommuting more...

I'm a big fan of https://www.amazon.com/dp/0132383101/?tag=pfamazon01-20 by Kip Irvin. See if your school library has a copy.

Why does he have to know? It's really not his concern where you got the money for the visit unless he's paying for it. How about "I'm visiting the physics program so can I drop into see you too?"

Does not exist. Hell, it's given as one of the reasons for why there are so few women in many of the STEM fields. I've spent lots of time around geeks (engineering geeks, robotics geeks, linux user group geeks, tech meetup geeks, harry potter geeks, video game geeks, etc) and they're almost all...

It's so totally random. I had a friend who won an NSF but got rejected (or accepted into the masters program) at just about every school he applied to except the one where his adviser had connections. And cause funding is getting cut across the board, even in STEM fields. One of the biggest...

So come visit during your spring break or during the schools spring break (try to make an appointment first and all, but you can pretty much set that up with the dept), and try to get some confirmation that the person you want to speak to is around. The problem with phone calls is that most...

The only real difference between it and RA work is that kaplan/kumon doesn't require grading HW or papers, and it pays about thesame. My friend taught at a private school while she was in a phd program 'cause her program was unfunded (linguistics, which is a different ballgame from the...

If you're talking about syntax, well then yes, the best way to learn C++ is to code enough simple programs that you start knowing intuitively that every { needs a matching } and every instructions ends with a ; and the like. The upside to programming languages (rather than English or natural...