WHAT HAVE I'VE BEEN UP TO

Hey guys! Last week I did a couple of things that might (or might not) be interesting and of course I wanted to share those moments with you. First of all, it was raining this week! I'm an absolute fan of rain when I'm inside the house. During summertime I always use my mother's tablet and this time I used, yes you're right, to play agar.io. This is actually a game we played in class for the last couple of months, the teachers weren't really happy with it. 

Women can code

Yesterday evening I was looking on the Google website and I found madewithcode.com. After reading for a while I became interested in the gender gap in Computer science. We have this prejudice that Computer science is something for men, not for women. I've been studying Computer science for over a year now and I still feel like it's a man's world and that I'm not good enough, not smart enough for this. But I'll work hard, maybe harder than others, because I know that it is what I love doing. Sometimes I wonder how come that the women in CS are underrepresented, I have come to the conclusion that it mainly has to do with these two things: 

There aren't a lot of female role models. 

Everyone needs someone they can identify to, but the problem is that there aren't a lot of female web developers in the news. You'll only find them after a little bit of research. For example, the women behind She++ or Girlswhocode, they aren't celebrities but they are so inspiring! Karlie Kloss is also a great role model for girls and women everywhere. 

Schools need to stimulate!

When I used to study Economics in high school, we had the option to choose between an extra hour of German or Informatics class. I chose informatics, we were only with two in that class. We both had a different motivation for choosing the class: I chose it because I was interested in Informatics, I hoped that we would learn webdesign and Photoshop. The other girl in the class chose it because she couldn't stand the German teacher. The class itself wasn't that good eather, we learned how to use Word and Excel. Don't get me wrong, it's important to know these basic skills, but when you've learned it throughout middle school, you kinda know how to use it. We never got in touch with programming and code, which is a shame. Teachers need to integrate computers in their classes more, even if it is for working with Excel. 

I also strongly believe that every country should have programs during breaks (like summer camps) that learn the basics of coding. So for a while I couldn't sleep last night, I had a lot of ideas and projects I wanted to start. I want to help with this mission, I want to create an organisation that makes it possible for girls to get in touch with coding. My little organisation at the moment is this blog, I hope this content will inspire girls to just go for it! We can make it a girls world too!

LIVE THE LIFE YOU WANT

Dear people of the internet. As I'm writing this I just got another mention that I should close my browser so that AVG can do some updates. And you can guess, I ignored it just like we all do. Eventually I'll have to do the updates, but right now it doesn't really matter. To get straight to the point of this post, life's short. I'm eighteen years old and I never really lived, sure I had this internet life for a couple of years, but that's just not it. Last year is the year I started living, so I took a break from the internet to live my life, especially my love life.

Even though you think you're better of alone, you need love in your life. So last year I searched for a guy, I focused on finding someone at school, at a party, ... And it worked, I found someone I liked, I pursued him and I found out he's a dick that never really liked me. He also spread some dirty rumors about me, even though he denies it when I asked about it. So that's 8 months of my life that I can throw away. I also had my first relationship ever, it only lasted 38 days, but hey, no regrets at all! I think I really needed to experience this feeling that I longed for. And now that I did I know what I want love/relationship wise. 

Basically I found myself again after a long time of being lost. Last week I realised how much I missed Gossip Girl. This show was basically my life when it aired in Belgium. It was my biggest inspiration, I had a lot of books about fashion and how to dress, I went to school everyday thinking I was Blair Waldorf. I lived the life I wanted in my dreams and that's what I lost this year due to choosing love. After realising this I made a decision; I want my life back!

So I bought ELLE yesterday, right now I'm redecorating my room, I actually made a YouTube video a couple of days ago and right now I'm listening to Monkey Business from the Black Eyed Peas. It feels weird to be doing these things again, but at the same time it's a relief to be doing these things again. I'm living the life I wanted and I made a promise to myself to go with the flow. Love will find me because I'm me, not because I'm desperately looking for it. 

Live the life you want, live with no regrets!

xoxo

Cassandra

WELCOME TO MY WORLD WIDE WEB

Hey everyone, my name is Cassandra Marie and I created this little online space to share the stuff I'm passionate about. I'm obsessed with design, two years ago it was fashion design which inspired me the most but now there's a whole new world I'm interested in. In 2014, I started following a new education program: informatics management (known as informaticabeheer where I live), before that I followed economics with modern languages but this wasn't something I was interested in. I wanted change in my life so I chose to redo my junior year of high school but in another program at another school. And I've never been happier, it's a challenge but it's a very good challenge. I've finished my junior year and I'll be starting my senior year in September. 

On this blog I will be writing whatever the fuck I want. Just because it is what I want and I will do it like I want, haha! You can't put people in a box, so why put a blog in a box? All I can hope is that this blog inspires you in a way that other blogs can't. I look forward to talking to you guys about my experiences in design (web, interior or fashion), life, love, ... 

See you guys later!

xoxo 

Cassandra