Get Real Website Design Survey

In 2006 the Oregon University System introduced the Get Real web site. We designed it to help high school students like you find information on computer science including colleges and careers. The web site is located at getreal.ous.edu

OSU Professor Jon Herlocker, Message to high school women interested in computer science: “The opportunities are here. Things are changing, and not everyone in computer science is a young male computer geek with no social life. It pays well, it’s a respected career, and you can have extreme flexibility.
”Listen to Dr. Jon Herlocker on "Women in Computing."

UO Professor Michal Young, A latecomer to computer science:  I actually was well into my college career. My first love was creative writing and was studying to be an English teacher in high schools. I was exposed to computers through a math course an interactive program and was intrigued so took off from there.  I credit getting into computer science to a John Dos Pasos novel I was studying which was not interesting me. Meanwhile I was taking a computer graphics course and having a great time.  It was a hard decision and I was within a year of graduating in English but I completely changed direction. I used to go down and watch people use software that I had written and that was such a kick in the pants; I built that and these guys were using it!
"Listen to Dr Michal Young on changing major to computer science."

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