I'm in college. Even in my maths and science classes there are more women. My counselor is women, about 30% of my science and math teachers have been women and about 75% of the other teachers have been women.

Not that there is anything wrong with anything I wrote above.

Anyways.... I don't really have the best GPA. I still am a scientist and still want to get my science courses done but most of college is a lot of busy work. Even the labs are less hands on than what I would prefer.

There is no experimentation allowed. No "fun" allowed. Yes, I know in stuff like chemistry that's not really a good idea, messing with chemicals is frowned upon.

But in stuff like math or physics labs why not? Its all like baking a cake. No fun. Big long report you write before the lab. Big long report you write afterwards.

When I do my own experiments (outside of school) I make them at least a bit more fun and entrepreneurial. Stuff like testing the breaking point of stuff I try to make different structures. Double blind tests etc.

For school, yes some of it is like a job in the same field. Most of medicine and science is paperwork... But the experimental aspects are gone by highschool. !00% dead by college.

Last term I was in an Ochem lab. I kinda liked Ochem. The lab was horrible though. There were just monotonous stuff. We had to list the dangers and chemical structure about 50 times for that lab on the pre and post labs. The write ups needed to follow an incredibly dull form. Exact same, every time.

I might as well have been a robot. All I need in all of these classes is raw memorization and that's it.

That also was why I was better than lots of people in the actual problem-solving classes. The answers weren't what you had to memorize. They were what you made for them.

I also think that this is why women really really excel in lots of previously men dominated fields. The fields are basically mechanized at this point. You have a clip-board. You do what is on the clip board. You memorize it, you do it. and on and on.

At least that's what my Girlfriend's nursing classes are like and what my math and science classes are like.

I just want it to be a bit more fun.

/rant.