Halloween has arrived, bringing along chilly fall breezes, oversized sweaters, and horror movie marathons on repeat. But while the rest of the world is busy worrying about haunted houses, masked slashers, and creatures jumping out from dark corners, women at a tech school know true terror looks entirely different.
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Every woman at a tech school knows this exact scenario: you walk into your first lab or capstone meeting, pull up a chair, look around the room, and realize immediately that you are the only woman in the room.
September at a tech school comes with an unmistakable shift in atmosphere. Suddenly, lecture hall attire swaps from oversized hoodies to fancy blazers, library printers churn out stacks of resumes, and the air is thick with elevator pitches practiced under breath.
Stepping onto a tech school campus in the fall always brings a familiar mix of energy and quiet reality. Between the smell of fresh syllabus packets, the late-night coding sessions, and lecture halls where you might still count the women in the room on one hand, being here requires a specific kind of resilience.
At the beginning of this school year, I had a plan. I knew what I wanted my schedule to look like, how productive I was going to be, and who I thought I’d become by the end of it.
Walking into a classroom where you’re one of the only women, if not the only one, can feel intimidating before the lecture even begins.
In a groundbreaking move that has left absolutely no one surprised, the university has officially announced the launch of His Stevens, a long-overdue counterpart to Her Stevens that aims to spotlight the deeply underrepresented voices of men everywhere, especially at a school where they make up roughly 70% of the population and 112% of the volume in every lecture hall.
“Sorry, I’ve just been so busy.”
It’s a sentence I say almost automatically every single day in college. Busy with classes.
There’s something about winter semester that makes internship anxiety louder. Maybe it’s the flood of LinkedIn announcements. Maybe it’s the group chat messages about who “heard back.”
Winter in college hits differently. The days are shorter, the weather is colder, and suddenly even the idea of leaving your dorm feels exhausting.