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" Hello girls! I&amp;#039;m Janessa, and I feel I haven&amp;#039;t properly introduced myself! This year I&amp;#039;m at the University of California: San Diego majoring in Computer Science and the amount of fun I am having already is uncontainable! I feel so lucky to be able to move out and go to college - even though it was somewhat scary at first!  Computer Science is all about programming and the software about computers. Meaning I&amp;#039;m currently learning a whole new language called Java! But I&amp;#039;m not here to bore you, but to tell you what it&amp;#039;s actually like to be an engineering major in REAL life. First of all, there is a really sad guy to girl ratio in my computer science classes! It&amp;#039;s true, girls are a rare breed in my classroom, but don&amp;#039;t let that intimidate you! I&amp;#039;ve actually found sororities like Phi Sigma Rho, made just for girls in engineering and science. I also signed up for a girl&amp;#039;s mentorship program which is pretty much like a big sister type deal. I did however find one of my professors staring oddly at me as I bounced into class wearing a dress. So I&amp;#039;m different- that&amp;#039;s a good thing =] There is one thing about the major that I didn&amp;#039;t consider however... The boys. At first we would think that a room full of boys would be a wonderful thing! Hah. Think again ladies! Especially when it is obvious that half of them haven&amp;#039;t showered in a couple of days... I don&amp;#039;t mean to be rude, but in one of my seminars I found myself saying under my breath, &amp;quot;some of these boys really need their mom to tell them to take a shower&amp;quot;, while the row behind me chuckled at my too-true statement.  It&amp;#039;s not all bad! In fact most of it is really fun. Being a girl means you get a lot of attention, and everyone is definitely willing to help out with your homework when you need it! Plus there is a whole bunch of different types of people. I&amp;#039;ve met two boys with super cute Scottish accents! They&amp;#039;re studying abroad over here in California. Not to mention this really cute blonde haired boy that sat in front of me on Thursday... I have yet to introduce myself... &amp;amp;lt;3 Janessa "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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