[statstutor]

> Available resources (internet, libraries, universities)

(mentors, support from authority, sufficient time/financing to be able to use the available resources)

If a professor believes consciously or subconsciously, by looking at you, that you're less likely to succeed, that's a significant barrier that may well be immediately fatal to your interest in a subject.

The frequency with which this kind of thing is said out loud is astonishing. E.g.: https://abc11.com/education/nc-state-professor-suspended-for...

If you've never personally witnessed quiet sexism (against women) and quiet racism (against non-white and in particular black people) in computer science, then I question where you have been.

[Toutouxc]

> If you've never personally witnessed quiet sexism (against women) and quiet racism (against non-white and in particular black people) in computer science, then I question where you have been.

In an overwhelmingly white European country. Out of the 900 people I went to uni with around a hundred were women and < 10 were not white.

[macg333]

Were you friends with many of the women and non-white students? Did they share their experiences with you?

[Toutouxc]

That's not what "personally witnessed" means.

[macg333]

I am aware. I'm just asking a follow up question to understand your understanding of those folks in your program.