QotW [5-04-03]: Discrimination

[Tully]

Originally posted by Erin Rapacki
It's only when the mentors know they're qualified and still refuse to let them show off their skills that I'd call it discrimination.

I'm an animator and I don't work on the 'bot. I'm a girl. I'm also a freshman,
To me, none of these things ever really came up, in my mind at least, as being different. My team members treated me the same as everyone else.
However, I realize, more so in hindsight, that this season I was slightly descriminated against. What am I gonna do about it? I can't change how people feel about something by putting them on the spot or explaining it to them. Sometimes words just aren't enough.
I chose to work harder, make sure I mastered 3dsmax for next year so that I can be more assertive and make sure I'm allowed to work. Sort of proving them wrong.

Also, our team had quite an issue ((which I'm really not going to get into)) before nationals and it occured to me that I had not seen any discrimination from the students this year. The mentors ((not all)) were a different story. I noticed some discrimination against students and other mentors and one mentor even brought it up as an issue when it wasn't there. The way it was brought up made me realize that if the mentors teach us that that's the way everything's going to be in the "real world" then that's how it's going to be because we are the next generation and it's up us how it's going to be.

Well, that's my opinion. I'd like to note that my team members and mentors, in my opinion, are so awesome even if we have our issues. I believe that's the main reason why we won our Regional Inspiring Engineering Award. ^.^

((Does any of that rant make sense??))

EDIT: spelling and tyops