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The source below is verifiable at timemagazine.com. See link in sources. I hope it helps.

"Bad Idea. You'll flunk out."

Time Magazine - March 7, 2005

Page 58

“WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL IN KENTUCKY IN 1974, I WAS into the arts. I was a dancer, in the drama club, on the debate team. I was an artist. I had no chemistry, no physics and no calculus at all. But one day at a mandatory high school lecture, a civil-engineering professor from the University of Kentucky arrived to speak, showing all these renderings of buildings. I was fascinated with the fact that I might actually be able to draw and get paid for it. And according to him, I could improve the quality of life for people and be a problem solver. Well, I became so excited, I went home and told my mother, a teacher, that I wanted to be a civil engineer. My mother had a motto that I have followed to this day: "If you really want to do something, you put your mind to it. Don't let anyone ever tell you that it can't be done." So when I told her, she said, "Great."

Then reality hit when I went back to my guidance counselor the next day and I told him that instead of being a lawyer or an interior decorator, I now wanted to be an engineer. He looked at me and said, "Bad idea. You have not scored on your aptitude test to be an engineer. You're not inclined to be an engineer. You're not made up to be an engineer." Then I went to my math teacher, and she said the same thing, "Bad idea. You'll flunk out."

I went to my grandmother, and her reaction was, "Isn't that a man's job?" And that's what really solidified it. I had two people tell me I wasn't intelligent enough, which I couldn't understand because I was a straight-A student, and now I had someone else tell me that it was a man's job. So I was bound and determined to prove everyone wrong. And I did. In 1978, I graduated from Purdue University in three years with a B+ average and a degree in civil engineering.

But not without a few discouraging incidents along the way. Purdue was very supportive of women in engineering and had a relatively large number of women. When I was there, there were about 50 women out of some 500 civil-engineering students. While I had many professors who really went out of their way to make sure we were treated no differently, I still had a couple of unfortunate incidents. My first year I nearly flunked out of physics and thought, "Oh, I really don't belong here." In my second year, I was taking a steel-design class with only one other woman in the class. And the professor, at the beginning of the course, looked at us and said, "Neither one of you should be here because women should not be in engineering." I thought, "I haven't even taken a test for you yet, so how do you possibly know how I'm going to perform?"

After graduating, I took a position at the Milwaukee, Wis., office of CH2M HILL, now one of the largest engineering firms in the world, to work on the Milwaukee Water Pollution Abatement Program, a project for the upgrading of sewage-treatment plants and the sewer tunnel system. One of the very first jobs I was put on was as a tunnel inspector. The project was awarded to an Italian contractor. I still remember so vividly to this day when I sat in a preconstruction meeting and the project manager was introducing his inspectors. When he introduced me, the only woman, this older Italian man pointed at me--he wouldn't even look at me--and said, "That woman will not go down in my tunnel." I was very fortunate to have a project manager who looked at this man and said, "I will be more than happy to award this to the next lowest bidder tomorrow morning." Of course they resolved their differences. But I did have my problems when I went out to the site for the first time. I went down in a bucket off of a crane to be lowered into the shaft, and the crane driver swung the cage wildly on purpose. But my grandfather said to treat those sorts of things with humor. So I yelled out, "I've been on better rides at the amusement park!" And that's the last time he ever did that.

I eventually left CH2M HILL because I felt I wasn't going to advance any further. I moved to my current firm, Nielsen-Wurster Group, a 250-person management-consulting firm based at that time in New York City, that does risk management and dispute resolution. When I started working on the West Coast, around the late '80s, the project manager called the president and said, "We would really, really like to hire your company, but only under one condition. That you don't put Pat Galloway on the job, because we just really are not going to be able to deal with a woman on this project." The president came to me and said, "We'll give up this job. We don't like our employees being treated this way, but we want to discuss it with you." It was a huge job for the firm, and I said, "Frankly, I'm not offended by it. He's got his own personal issues, but it's ridiculous for us not to take this job."

In another instance, I had problems on a job for CalEnergy, an energy company. The vice president of construction was an older gentleman who hadn't encountered a lot of women in his profession. It was 1999. I was the principal, the project manager was a woman and their lawyer was a woman. So he walked into the room, there were three women standing there, and he was looking around thinking, "So when is the guy going to walk in?" The first couple of meetings were difficult, but as the project went on we became good friends. Two years ago, when he retired, he said, "Would there be a place for me at Nielsen-Wurster?" I said, "You would work for me, a woman?" "You know," he said, "you taught me a lesson. It doesn't matter if you're male or female, as long as you can get the job done. I've learned a lot from you." He's now the managing director of our Asia-Pacific operations in Melbourne, Australia. But considering this happened only five years ago, it shows we have a long way to go.

Galloway is CEO of the Nielsen-Wurster Group, a management-consulting firm, and former president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the first woman ever to serve in that office.”

I introduced my girl friend to my friend,and he snatched her from me , pls what do i do.?

first of all that guy is not your friend a friend would never do such a thing to a true friend. Sorry for my comments despite of the love that you feel for this girl she is not worth it either, Imagine you and her being in a different situation(married for instance)and you having to go to work while thinking and wondering if she is sleeping with another dude while you are working, so sorry but I guess you gonna have to move on and stay away from them.

Any nice, outdoors, family oriented girls left?

Well Nick, i do have to smile and laugh because the girl you described sounds alot like me except im not really artistic and im not the kind to go and call myself good looking, (but everyone says i am... so it must be true to a certain degree, but meh.. not the big headed, im sexy look at me kinda girl).

No, im not saying this to say im available, pick me! lol im already in a serious relationship. Im saying this to give you hope that there are still girls like me out there. I'll let you know all the things we have in common so that you know you're not alone :p

- I dont drink (tried it, hated it)

- I'm also 19

- I've never smoked (anything! and proud of it :D)

- I love outdoors!

- I love all animals and kids

- Of course i love dogs! lol i plan to open a kennel one day and breed dogs :p

- Im a foot shorter than you :p lol 115 lbs

- I'm smart, i guess if people laugh alot with me i guess im funny right? lol compassionate (well, caring is either my biggest quality or fault.. depends on the situation :p family oriented (spend alot of time with them, so i guess so :p)

- good in math, science is a different story though lol (just doesnt interest me much i guess)

- the date idea sounds ideal lol (but if you lived where i live, hose down with bug spray first :p)

- I also come off as the shy girl (but im not really). I just have a tendency to be quiet around people at first. (I observe peoples ways to see what kind of people they are and then decide if i could see myself getting along well with them before really starting to talk).

- Im easy to get along with

- Not in the party scene either.. (bores me to watch people get so drunk they puke and pass out. I believe that if the only way people have fun is by having to drink or smoke up, then they are kind of sad :p lol)

I may have missed something, but you sound almost like the male version of me, which is kinda funny :p

But anyways, dont give up hope. I'm sure im not the only one that matches what you're looking for out there. I have friends that are KIND OF like me, but obviously, everyone is different :p

Good Luck finding that girl. She'll be a very lucky one ;)