Last year, when I decided to re-align my life ambitions and goals, I had a conversation with Judy Pharo, the associate director of McGill's Engineering faculty. Two things to note are that, a) I loveeeee Judy Pharo and b) this conversation marked me, for some reason. I guess it's because she was the first to suggest that I could mesh my love of engineering and my love of ...well, everything non-engineering. But mostly casual writing. Like right now, for instance.
Anyways, she suggested I get an article published, and even recommended a particular magazine here at McGill. It mostly went in one ear and out the other, until a friend who worked for said magazine asked me to write (or more so said something like "if you want to, that'd be ok").
I got a little too excited and then procrastinated for about six months. Finally in July I finished my article, sent it away, and then obsessively checked my email every day (and the magazine website), to see if a) my article was approved and b) the magazine was out.
Finally a) and b) came true so here we are. It's not a big fancy magazine. More like tiny and technology-related. But it fit my topic (women in engineering, duh) and I had "connections". And now it will fit in the dramatic tale of how I got to the top starting from humble beginnings.
Here is the link to my first published article, in the magazine Technophilic:
http://issuu.com/technophilic/docs/f2012-mcgill/21
P.S. I may have stolen like 15 copies and mailed some to my parents. One day they could be worth a lot on ebay. But I felt guilty and had to get that off my chest. Phew.
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