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You can't live your life based on speculation... Unless your an engineer then everything is based on assumptions.

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I am one of the proud few female engineers in the United States. Graduated from University of California Riverside with a Mechanical Engineering Degree with a minor in Mathematics! #makethemmainstream #mtm #womeninstem #womenengineers #11%

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Tell us your story on how you are a STEM Ambassador!

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Sylvia Earle is a marine biologist, explorer, author, and lecturer. She is the founder of Deep Ocean Exploration and Research, Inc., the founder of Mission Blue and SEAlliance. She also led the first team of women aquanauts during the Tektite Project in 1970.

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Sometimes you need advice from someone who has been there. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for development of the radioimmunoassay technique.

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Given to me by a friend and signed by an actual Rosie! #famous #rosietheriveter #makethemmainstream #historyinpictures

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Sarah Parcak is an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and remote sensing expert. She has been using satellite imaging to change the world of archeaology. #mtm #makethemmainstream#womeninstem #archaeology #sarakparcak

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When we think of women in science we usually think about Marie Curie, but obiviously for a good reason. Especially when she is known to drop advice like this: "We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."  

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There is always a good book to be read. The STEM section at Barnes and Nobel is growing and I am so happy about that. Now there are even more nerd books I can't wait to get a hold of. #reading #makethemmainstream #barnesandnoble #stem #stemreading (at Barnes & Noble)

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Neurobiologist, won the Nobel Prize for her discovery of growth factors in 1986. Sometimes life is going to be hard, sometimes everyone is going to be against you. But if you chose to see these shortcomings and the discrimination as a powerful force of motivation and good then you can prove them all wrong.

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Neurobiologist, won the Nobel Prize for her discovery of growth factors in 1986. Sometimes life is going to be hard, sometimes everyone is going to be against you. But if you chose to see these shortcomings and the discrimination as a powerful force of motivation and good then you can prove them all wrong.

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Just in case you need a large dose of encouragement http://empowering.hearst.co.uk/be-inspired/10-inspiring-quotes-from-women-in-science/

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You don't have to be successful to have important words to share. You don't have to seek adventure to create new ideas. The experiences you have everyday can lead to inspiration.

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Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was the first African-American woman to recieve a PhD in Economics in the United States. We still have to knock doors down inorder to make our way through the STEM fields. However, thanks to women like her we some of the doors have already been knocked down, and some doors we can walk through freely.

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Hi! I'm about to pursue a degree in mathematics. Throughout high school, the farthest I got in math courses was AP Calculus AB. I was good in class, and enjoyed the subject, I'm just worried that I don't have an adequate mathematical foundation to go through this curriculum. I'm enrolled to take Calc. I in the fall, and my question is: At this point in my education, will my background or my ambition matter more? Because I'm willing to work as hard as I have to.

Colleges don’t expect high school students to know any math further than calculus, if even that.

As for background vs. ambition: From what you’re saying, you’ll do great. I’ve said it over and over, the best way to be good at math is to work hard at it. Practice beats talent any day.

Though background/foundation does matter some; math classes build on previous math classes. If you don’t know algebra, you won’t be able to do calculus. But many things you’ll either remember because you’re using them, or forget because you’re not using them so you don’t need to know them anyway. And if you forget, say, partial fraction decomposition (bane of my existence I stg) you can always look it up.

Basically, if you don’t have an adequate foundation you’ll figure it out pretty quick because you’ll find something you should know how to do, but don’t. When that happens (and it always happens, the question is just how often) your textbook, wolfram alpha, and google are your friends (just don’t plagiarize it’ll only screw you in the long run).

I hope that answered your question! If not, my inbox is open.

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I think we can all be better at looking at life without our gender glasses on. Can we agree that it doesn't matter who you are or what you identify as, you can be in STEM, you can do anything you choose. #womeninstem #mtm #makethemmainstream #genderequality #equality #maybrittmoser