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the end of her second semester, she has decided to transfer to the English
department. Her enthusiasm for computer science is extinguished. She says,
"In high school, when I'd go home from class, I would be like ?Oh, let's
program a little.? But, now I am just like, ?Let's not bother.?" Struggling
with the course work, perceiving her peers (mostly male) as doing much
better with much less effort, feeling a misfit between herself and a cultural
norm that associates success with an all consuming love of computing, she
questions whether she belongs in the department. Several semesters after
leaving computer science, Lily describes her disappointment in having transferred
out. It is not that she is unhappy in English. She loves the humanities.
But she remembers how much she loved programming, had wanted to major in
computer science, and feels dismayed with how her interest has been extinguished.
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