Recently I've been featured on the EngineerGirl! website. It's a site sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering. It's goal is to get middle school girls excited about a future in engineering.
My EngineerGirl! Profile: http://www.engineergirl.org/
A few months ago my next door neighbor (who is on the current FSAE team) showed me the new capstone textbook. My photo is in it! The funny thing is my quote was meant to be kinda sassy (cause I wrote all my team's reports) and it ended up in the textbook! I guess they didn't pick up on the sarcasm.
"Divide the workload evenly. Make sure everyone gets a chance to write a paper/do a presentation. Always do work that you're proud of!" - Jenni Glauser, 2007-08 Capstone student
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When I was in college, BYU's College of Engineering asked if they could use my picture on a poster. They had a photo shoot with a photographer and everything! Once they finished the posters I saw them all over BYU's campus! One of my friends even said they saw my poster at the LDS Business College in SLC!
One time I was waiting for the elevator in the Crabtree building and was making small talk with an awkward engineering boy (no, not Jake). He was looking at the poster on the wall and said "I bet these girls aren't even engineers" then he pointed at my picture and said "she doesn't even look like an engineer". At first I wasn't sure if he was making a weird joke or something (like I said, he was awkward). But I couldn't tell, so I said "you know that's my picture you're pointing to, right?" He looked at the photo then back at me. Then his face turned beet red. He was so embarrassed! He had no idea it was me! Why would he even pick that as a topic of conversation anyway? Weird dude. But... in his defense, I was wearing glasses and had dark, curly hair that day.
6 comments:
AWESOME!!!!
Woo-woo! Super excited for you. Love the sarcastic quote turned words of wisdom too!
I love it! You've got to find one of those posters, sign it, and send it to me. :-) That's my new retirement plan!!
I was once the January employee of the month when I worked at the BYU bookstore, so my picture was up on the wall. Once, about a month later, I walked into the Cougar Eat and a guy yelled, "Hey! It's Miss January!!" Still makes me laugh. :-)
I love that story. Truly, you look completely different than you did in that poster. Can you write up your quote? I couldn't enlarge the picture to see it. Oh, and, You Go Girl! It's strange that in the U.S. engineers are rarely women. SM has learned that it's not the case in other countries where he hires from. Also, he pointed out that girls are usually better at math so really it doesn't make sense that our culture doesn't have more women engineers. Way to be smart and proud!
This post is awesome on all counts. I'm going to have my girls check out your profile on Engineer Girl.
I especially love that probably the one time that boy thought to open his mouth and point out the beautiful girl who couldn't possibly be a real engineer, he was talking TO HER!! Perfect!
Christy - I added the quote for you...
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