Lesson 1 is that I don't take people's crap (normally). They wouldn't get back on track, I wasn't going to do their work while they jacked off and refused to try, so I fired myself from the group and took my project with me. Did I mention this was one week before the project was due??? <3 I got an A (AND extra credit) and they did poorly, to say the least.

The things that still bothers me is that I didn't say anything directly about the porn. I didn't call them out on it, I didn't mention it to the prof when I told him I was quitting and splitting away. I should have told them where to SHOVE IT.

Ironically, they were very upset, particularly one kid who I think might have had a crush on him. He wrote me long, "internet-drama-ful" emails from the "group" about how I had screwed the group and I should come back. I would post our series of emails, but they're long. (allbeit HILARIOUS). this post is long enough already! To this day, that boy reads my "other" blog every day. Either he doesn't hold a grudge, or holds a scarily creepy grudge and mocks everything about my life to his other jack-off buddies. I don't really care, I'm doing pretty well :E

and of course, in one of my baby programming classes, one of my cs friends told me I was one of the only girls in the class that wasn't a complete moron. Unfortunatley, this was true. There were a lot of stupid cs girls who couldn't program well. They would giggle and get boys to do their program for them. I worked with my college's head professor, and he was always asking me how we could get more girls interested in CS. I could go on an on about this, but I won't, since it's boring. But when I come across books like Unlocking the Clubhouse, I like being able to identify with other women in IT (even though the book's kind of old).

I used to be quite shy. Quiet. But since starting college, I've become quite the big mouth :) I've gotten used to needing to assert myself all the time.