Guide to Emily Hahn: Journalist, Engineer, Expert on China
Topic: Instructional Activities
Podcast

Hahn, Emily. “B.Sc.,” No Hurry to Get Home. 56-69.

In this autobiographical chapter, Hahn describes what it was like to be the first woman to be a mining engineering student at the University of Wisconsin. Hahn, who was annoyed at her family’s insistence that she go to college rather than study art, explains that, in retrospect, she should have enrolled in Letters and Science, but chose mining engineering instead. It was an unusual choice in 1924. She claims it was an accident, but after reading her work, the reader wonders if that was the case. Hahn certainly loves a challenge.

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