I think for me, my gender has always help me back. When I was younger, I played with everyone, boys and girls on a T-ball team. But I was still always picked last because I was a girl. The coaches always picked the girls last for the lineup, we bat last, we were never on the field. You know that kind of thing. Because of that I feel like I have always just assumed that boys were supposed to better then girl at everything, all because of that limited incident when I was 5-7 years old. So in writings I have done in the past, I have never really worked hard on them, as well as other school work, because I thought that boys would always be better. It wasn’t until I was researching some paper I was doing in my 10th grade English class, where I found a movie, that I thought was very interesting. It was called Hidden Figures, It was about the women behind one of NASA’s greatest operations. In watching that movie it really showed me that you should never try to compare yourself to anyone, not even to boys. and after that, I worked 10x harder than I ever have before. I studied harder and became one of the top students in my class, I ended up graduating 11 our of 200 kids. and I never would have work as hard as I did if I didn’t learn that lesson.
