About | Tess Rinearson blogs

I'm Tess Rinearson, a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science.

In the past, I attended the University of Pennsylvania (for a year) and worked at Microsoft (for a summer) and Valve Software. (for a different summer). Somewhere in between all of this, I worked at CloudMine (for a semester) and went to a lot of hackathons.

I like to write about a lot of things. I write especially regularly on tech and feminism--sometimes at the same time.

Follow me on Twitter: @temiri

How to Reinforce Impostor Syndrome (September 2012)

On Technical Entitlement (June 2012)

Notes from Penn's Open Forum on Brogramming (and Sexism in Computer Science) (March 2012)

How to Get a Kickass Internship as a High School Student (August 2012)

About

I’m Tess Michiko Rinearson.

Here are some things I am now:

19 years old
A sophomore (transfer student) at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science
A feminist
A Seattle native, living in Pittsburgh
Activist.io co-founder
Hapa haole
Daughter of a serial entrepreneur
An avid tweeter and blogger
Strong-willed

Here are some things I have been in the past (but may or may not be any more):

A Steam Development intern at Valve
In the news (The Next Web, GeekWire, and others)
An undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania
Vegetarian
A Development Intern at CloudMine
Funny
A Software Development Engineering intern at Microsoft

I also have a homepage.