Lauren Dempster

I once wrote a post called Point Of View.

I wouldn’t say it was controversial but it certainly did get some of my class mates wondering who I was talking about (and even more people complaining about bringing my boyfriend into the third year lab :))

This follow up post is NOT going to name and shame those involved, because I’m not that sort of person, this post is just to say I have since realised (like many said) that it really isn’t like that in the real world.

For the past two and half months I have been working at IBM in Greenock. Which has been a new and extremely useful experience to me. I have gained confidence in many ways not only in Computing Science but also in just being a girl and being in this subject.

I guess I am always a little down on my “abilities” cause I am not so interested in learning stuff in my own spare time. However through this new experience I have learned in HTML, jsp, CSS, Javascript, JDBC and DB2 none of which, before this summer, I had done anything with (believe it or not) and it has shown me that I can learn anything if I want to.

But on the follow up, I have never once felt from any of the employees of IBM or any of the other students, that they believed I was ‘inferior’ to them and I haven’t been treated any different. I have always felt comfortable in the working environment, so for that, thanks to all the people I work with.

The whole experience has given me the new opportunity that I may actually follow my degree in to a suitable career. In the past I never wanted to for a mixture of reasons, now I believe that there is a chance that maybe this is what I am supposed to do.

Now all I have to worry about on returning to University is project, modules, assignments, modules, exams, fourth year………

Lauren xx

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