Introduction to "Kelsey On Tech"

Always the tone of surprise; and often I’m not quite certain it’s only because my major can be quite daunting in difficulty. I receive a look of confusion and the same phrase, with varying wording, “That’s not a major I would expect YOU to have.” I heard it from my agency, my friends, family, strangers, etcetera. People often explain their surprise by expressing that it’s because I model and that, in particular, makes it such a contradiction. Others are more blatant and say, “I figured you’d be majoring in English. Isn’t computer science heavy on math?”

Well, I did start out as an English major, or rather I did what was expected. Then, I took my first computer science class. It was incredible, all the “Frankenstein-coding” with HTML that I played with on MySpace to make it look “cooler” had become useful in a beginner-esque class. Of course, I wasn’t an expert at computers, like some of my other classmates, but I was thrilled about the prospects and possibilities of programming that were introduced to me. I knew at that point that I had decided on my major. I had always loved computers, but never did it cross my mind I could study them to the extent of a computer science degree.

And so begins the introduction to my blog “Kelsey on Tech,” an exploration through blogs and vlogs on entering a male-dominated major with limited experience.