Alice Steinglass

About Alice

• Always knew that she liked both math and art, but she felt that there was a tension between the two, and she had to limit herself to one field.
• However, when she was in high school, she discovered computer science, which would let her exercise both her creative and mathematical brain power.
• She knew she could use computer science as a tool to help her achieve all of her other goals, so she chose it as her major.
• In college, she was in classes with people who had grown up taking apart computers and taking computer science classes, so she felt like she was “late to the party.”
• Says that one of the biggest reasons for a lack of gender diversity within computer science is because women are dissuaded from breaking the barrier and taking that first class.
• However, she’s found that once women take their first computer science class, they—like Alice—will often get over the initial intimidation and find that they love the field.
• Says that computer science has a reputation as being a lonely field, when fundamentally, the goal of most computer science work is collaborating with others to solve problems.
• Her favorite part about coding is that there’s never really a right or wrong answer; if your code doesn’t work, that just means that you’re not done with it yet.