University Advice

Take summer courses. Retake them if necessary. In my experience, financial aid will actually cover most of the high summer costs. You should at least sign up and apply for financial aid and see what you get. If you can't do it, you can always just drop the classes before the summer session even starts.

He tells his mom

The guy who recorded a video when he came out to his dad and posted it on youtube (My post about it) also did one for when he told his mom.



This one was tougher than when he told his dad. He had to explain a lot more (and the whole Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve thing comes up) but he did it and she still loves him. My mom was like this when I came out to her last year, and while she is not 100% okay, she is doing better (slowly but surely). I hope his mom gets better with it also.

What's next?

I've been wondering this for a while now. Once LGBT rights are done, what's next? Now, I know there will still be anti-gay people, just like there are still sexists and racists even those are protected groups across the U.S. But once there are LGBT protections, what's next? I can't think of anything that people are born with (gender, skin, orientation) that would be discriminated against next. Maybe atheist? I know there are a lot of people who's families would be angry if they found out they were atheists. Although there are legal protections concerning religion already, but it could be more of an acceptance movement than anything...your thoughts?

Rooster Teeth

Here are my top six videos from Rooster Teeth. If you haven't seen any of them, you should watch at least one. They are really funny. I had a hard enough time narrowing it down to six to post on here, so I'm not going to rank my absolute favorite. I'd say watch all six. If you go to their site, they have many, many more.













And I'll leave you with a quote from one of them. "Is that the new slogan? You know it's not very catchy at all. You know, I mean I guess it's better than 'What can brown do for you?' because that one reminds everyone of pooping."

Music Monday-Cobra Starship-You Make Me Feel... ft. Sabi

A bit of discription. Music Monday is when I show a YouTube clip of a random song on my iPod. Enjoy.

NFL Protects Sexual Orientation

Thanks to Joe.My.God. for this.

The new football rules:

Section 1. No Discrimination: There will be no discrimination in any form against any player by the Management Council, any Club or by the NFLPA because of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or activity or lack of activity on behalf of the NFLPA.

I don't watch football, but I'm glad that progress is being made. I'm guessing it's just as lonely being a gay football player (even in college or high school) as being a gay engineer.

Alan Turing

Born: June 23, 1912
Died: June 7, 1954

He is another reason I started this blog. He was such a good scientist/engineer and a big part in heling defeat the Germans during WWII. He is even partly responsible for the computers we have today. (Those of you who know computers will know that he was responsible for the Turing machine and Turing test, both of which are major parts of computers.) But even after all that, he was still persecuted for being gay, eventually commiting suicide (most likely). I know I won't forget his story.

Alan Turing Wikipedia Article

Q&A

Hello,

I would love to do a Q&A about being a gay mechanical engineering major (or other stuff, keeping it PG-13 and under). Feel free to post in the comments some questions and once I have enough (or if enough time has passed) I'll answer them here. Here's some random stuff about myself:

I'm a 21 year old gay mechanical engineering major in my senior year. I'm pretty sure I've never met another gay engineer (you never know).

I watch a lot of sci-fi stuff. I love the shows Fringe and Doctor Who, as well as other shows like How I Met Your Mother, New Girl, Big Bang Theory, Eureka, Warehouse 13 and many more.

I do read some comics, but it's hard for me to keep up during the school year. The one I manage to keep up with is Fables. I want to catch up in Runaways and Young Avengers. I also plan to start Teen Titans and Stormwatch, eventually...

I play Pokemon sometimes, I actually ended up missing Diamond, Pearl, SoulSilver and HeartGold, but my boyfriend bought me a DSi and Pokemon White, so I was getting back into it until school started.

I plan to use this blog to talk about being gay in engineering as well as random stuff in my life, like coming out to the rest of my family (my mom and dad know). I hope it's not too boring.

And, that's some random stuff about me. Ask away.

Hello

I know this happened two days ago, but with school and everything I've been busy. However, I wasn't too busy to watch this video.



I found this very moving. Seriously, it reminded me a lot of the conversation I had with my dad when I came out. Well, except that I'm not a soldier, and I was able to tell my dad in person. And yes, I'm gay. I'm sure you gathered that from the title. But more than that, I'm also an engineering student. And this video inspired me to start talking about that. Being gay in engineering, I feel very alone. I know no other gay engineers. Period. And I know of no gay engineers to have as role models either. So I decided to create this blog (since I'm not that great with videos) to talk about my experiences with life and let any other gay engineers/scientists know that they are not alone.

I'm gay;
I'm geeky;
I'm an engineer.

P.S. I'm also Mexican-American, but I felt that would have made the title of this blog too long.
P.S.S. And by Mexican-American, I mean I was born in the U.S., but my ancestry is Mexican.

DragonCon! 2011

(From my old blog)

Woohoo! DragonCon! I'm so excited to see it. I'll be posting later as to what happens there. Unless what happens there stays there. I'm not sure on the rules.

Edit: Dec 4th

I actually had a ton of fun at DragonCon. There were so many interesting things there, I had a ton of fun with my friends. We took so many pictures of people in costumes. (Cosplaying? I'm not quite sure on the terminology yet...) I would seriously consider going again, and it's made me want to go to other conventions as well. Here's hoping one year it'll be ComiCon!