 My first year in undergrad I was interested in math and physics and I liked physics classes better than math and so I knew that I like maybe wanted to major in physics but classes were like really hard and didn't do very well at first so I wasn't sure that I would make it. When I was a third year as an undergraduate I for the first time learned about all the studies and statistics about bias against women in the physical sciences and it helped me to sort of put my own struggles in wider academic context and I was able to use that knowledge to sort of understand ways that I could succeed personally but also to sort of use it as a constructive point to start a society of women in the physical sciences. When I was a senior I went to a conference for undergrad women in physics in the Midwest and it gave me the opportunity to meet a lot of women at different institutions and learn from them about what programs they had at their home institutions to do sort of fight gender inequity in the physical sciences. It was really sort of reassuring to see all these young women doing like real physics research. It's okay if the students who come don't want to do physics for their own reasons but I think it's good to show them that like there are successful women in academia and like you could do it if you wanted to.