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What I’ve Learnt in 4.5 years as a Female Computing Student
Some takeaways and experiences after these long years in NTU’s School of Computer Science and Engineering.
After (not-so) freshly graduating after spending nine semesters in this beautiful place, I thought it might be apt to write a summary of experiences and lessons I’ve learnt from this journey. Kinda like a Gen Z girl’s diary/journal (whichever sounds less lame) I suppose. Here goes:
In high school I told my parents I didn’t want to take my A-levels (SAT equivalent) because I wanted to drop my studies and pursue Art for the REST OF MY LIFE (that’s a 17 year old’s way of dramatizing “making a living”), and that I hated engineering and structures , that I loved things that are abstract and gorgeously messy. In the end, I chose Computer Science (and yeah codes are messy, just not gorgeously though) in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Because my Asian parents (and myself) decided that technical skills may have better career prospects and Computer Science felt like the most “malleable” and “flexible” course out of all the other engineering degrees — in that you can use code to create Art, do Fintech, go into Security, etc.
Right before formally starting lessons, the competitive side in me stressed out about preparing myself FOR those lessons. Like, literally stressed out. I would…
