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[smellycoder]

Is it strange that a conference intended to support women in computing has actually made me feel worse about it? I feel this nagging insecurity and doubt; that being in HCI, I am not a real computer scientist, that I am not a good researcher, that I am not scientific enough, that a strong sense of intuition is not valued in my field, that I am

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[jptrumptone]

I feel an nagging urge to tell you that you are a wonderful scientist! I mean, you submitted 2 papers to CHI, which is amazing! And, in alot of ways HCI is a more sciency then any other computer science field. Half of us are really mathmeticians and the other have are engineers ;-) But HCI people are scientists, sometimes I'm a little jealous!

As far as not doing real research, I point again to the fact that you just submitted 2 papers to CHI! and you have a publication.

As a third year graduate student you are right on track!

Enjoy Grace Hopper, I wish i could be there.

[tenbris]

Don't let the militant ovary shaking that is going on get to you. I've gotten some less than stellar response about being at a Tier 2 much less in an undergrad program with aspirations of grad school. And god forbid the hacker bit comes up. My roommate and I ended up having a really interesting discussion last night about how this rhetoric that is being spouted is actually doing more harm than good.

RE: HCI
I was looking at the program earlier and it looks like one of the PhD BoFs is HCI focused...

*hugs*