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For my diversity essay for secondaries, which one would be better?
A) Being a woman in tech (especially at a school where only 1/4 of CS majors in my year were female) where I am constantly the “token female” in group projects or am constantly one of only 2-3 females in upper level EE classes with 20-30 people overall. This topic comes more naturally to me since I’ve dealt with casual sexism. Also can discuss about my mother who faced the same sort of stuff studying engineering in India in the 90s (there were only 5 female EE students in her graduating class) yet encouraged me to pursue my ambitions to become a surgeon. Even though I rarely ever encounter female surgeons in my clinical experiences. I can talk about how things haven’t changed as much as we like to think in the past 25-30 years. And it’s relevant to current events today.
B) The immigrant essay. Moving from India as a child and adjusting to a new culture. Honestly though, I can’t connect with the “immigrant narrative”. Especially since my parents aren’t refugees or escaping extreme poverty. My parents have a house and land in India and plan on retiring there. And are college-educated and had stable engineering jobs before moving. My dad even did graduate school in the motherland. They were fairly settled and comfortable in India. And even once they came to the U.S., they didn’t have much desire to “make it big” as entrepreneurs and stayed at stable government jobs rather than the riskier tech industry.
A) Being a woman in tech (especially at a school where only 1/4 of CS majors in my year were female) where I am constantly the “token female” in group projects or am constantly one of only 2-3 females in upper level EE classes with 20-30 people overall. This topic comes more naturally to me since I’ve dealt with casual sexism. Also can discuss about my mother who faced the same sort of stuff studying engineering in India in the 90s (there were only 5 female EE students in her graduating class) yet encouraged me to pursue my ambitions to become a surgeon. Even though I rarely ever encounter female surgeons in my clinical experiences. I can talk about how things haven’t changed as much as we like to think in the past 25-30 years. And it’s relevant to current events today.
B) The immigrant essay. Moving from India as a child and adjusting to a new culture. Honestly though, I can’t connect with the “immigrant narrative”. Especially since my parents aren’t refugees or escaping extreme poverty. My parents have a house and land in India and plan on retiring there. And are college-educated and had stable engineering jobs before moving. My dad even did graduate school in the motherland. They were fairly settled and comfortable in India. And even once they came to the U.S., they didn’t have much desire to “make it big” as entrepreneurs and stayed at stable government jobs rather than the riskier tech industry.
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