people in her program. She completed the answer to a practice question and waited for the others to finish up. When she gave her male peer the answer, he told her she was wrong and proceeded to check with a TA and in the back of the textbook. Turns out she was right all along. “I guess we’ll give you that,” he said.

“You know, one third of engineers end up dropping out?” a different male told her.

After a while, the jokes stopped being funny. Men in her program repeatedly told her that she was going to fail. Catz told them to stop, and when they didn’t, she started ignoring them. Ironically, of the guys who taunted her one fell behind in school and the other dropped out becauseto follow the decision.

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