{"id":2344,"date":"2017-06-22T05:41:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T05:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2017-06-29T14:08:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T14:08:46","slug":"hooray-for-its-international-women-in-engineering-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2017\/06\/22\/hooray-for-its-international-women-in-engineering-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooray! For it&#8217;s International Women in Engineering Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s <span style=\"font-family: impact, sans-serif\">International Women in Engineering Day<\/span> this Friday!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad of the existence of such a remarkable day!<\/p>\n<p>For it&#8217;s a day that <em>appreciates<\/em> the women in this <strong>field<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One that inspires girls to use the mind they <strong>wield<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let me introduce you to my <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">best friends<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whom which I would stick with until the world <em>ends<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Introducing the craziest women in engineering I know<\/p>\n<p>We are the four girls in EIE and you&#8217;re probably like <span style=\"font-family: impact, sans-serif\"><strong>&#8220;whoa?!&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zo\u00eb is in a <strong>deep-seated<\/strong> relationship with <em>mathematics&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seriously she&#8217;s interested if it&#8217;s got anything to do with quadratics except when she&#8217;s busy with <span style=\"color: #99cc00\"><strong>Acrobatics<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Belen is the human <span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">embodiment of robotics<\/span> and totally into <span style=\"font-family: impact, sans-serif\">electronics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Her love for <span style=\"font-family: impact, sans-serif\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff\">memes<\/span><\/strong><\/span> is in her bloodstream and her taste in music is not mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>Mireya enjoys programming projects because when it comes to \u00a0retrospect, she settles for nothing<span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #00ccff\"><em>short of perfect.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and her love for software directly translates to her <span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;color: #008000\"><strong>footwear!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And me? When I&#8217;m not <span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif\">tangled <\/span>in EIE&#8217;s figurative wires I like to write everything that transpires<\/p>\n<p><strong>Four<\/strong> amazing girls in EIE, not in it just for the <span style=\"font-family: impact, sans-serif;color: #cc99ff\">DEGREE<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I hope this post inspires you to <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><b><i><span style=\"font-family: impact, sans-serif\">ASPIRE<\/span>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/span>and <span style=\"font-family: impact, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #800080\"><b><i>DESIRE<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pushes you to ignite the<em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: impact, sans-serif\">FIRE<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>And ensures your dreams don&#8217;t <span style=\"color: #808080;font-family: impact, sans-serif\"><em><strong>EXPIRE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Just because you&#8217;re currently a <strong><span style=\"color: #ff99cc\"><em>beginner,<\/em><\/span><\/strong> doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t be a\u00a0<em>Nobel\u00a0prize winner<\/em>, or an <em>engineer at the frontier.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>International Women in Engineering day reminds us of all the <em>amazing women<\/em> out there!<\/p>\n<p>I say, let&#8217;s keep going and ensure our generation of women leave our <strong><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #333399\"><em>signature<\/em> <\/span><\/strong>in the world of science, with each other for their guidance.<\/p>\n<p>We are<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #993366\"> <strong>empowered<\/strong> <\/span>and <span style=\"color: #993366\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">supported<\/span><\/strong> <\/span>more than ever before. To any and every girl out there who&#8217;s geeky, artistic, nerdy, creative, innovative or just being <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><em><strong>yourse<\/strong><strong>lf&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>This is the century to act on your capabilities and achieve! So don&#8217;t be deceived, go out there and <\/em><em>believe.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2355\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2355\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/files\/2017\/06\/16587166_1431663790233451_5304742618120656403_o-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">75% of the EIE2 girls \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Happy International Women in Engineering day!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s International Women in Engineering Day this Friday! I&#8217;m glad of the existence of such a remarkable day! For it&#8217;s a day that appreciates the women in this field One that inspires girls to use the mind they wield Let me introduce you to my best friends Whom which I would stick with until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1035,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}