I really need some pointers.

[Kierstennotsojoy]

Here soon I will be going to college. I just moved to a new city and state and I don't really know anyone here and that's a problem. But my main problem is that I'm going to be getting my associates in applied science so that I will be able to weld. With that out there, how will I be able to be okay with being the only woman with 30+ men. Who,(assuming, which is a worst case scenario) possibly could be major sexist. Just an assumption. But I really need some pointers on how yo not freak out and go over the edge.

[dddougal]

I wouldn't assume that they are going to be sexist or that your worse case scenario will come to light....If it does then there are channels you can go down, they are in the wrong, not you.

[Nervous Ninny]

My daughter is in her third yr studying Bio Engineering. This is a male dominated field. She joined a an engineering sorority, they don't have a house she lives in an apartment on her own. What this did give her was other like minded females. She is no social butterfly anyway but girls need a few girls friends.

[MiST]

I think you have a poor image of men.

I have worked in engineering and worked with many skilled women and they are treated the same as the men are.

[Nervous Ninny]

I work in a male dominated field, I do not feel as though they are mean or sexist. Not all women are this way but I like it when a women walks in the room I feel much more comfortable with women. I am not saying they are better in any way, for some reason I just feel more comfortable with women. I think the whole male thing does play into my anxiety at work.

[Ponder]

If you just live for what you love, then that's all people will see. If you just live in fear, then that's all people will see. If you experience living both in fear and love; people will choose what they want to see. If you just focus on what matters, it won't matter what others see.