What: "Impostor Panel" and Dinner with GradWomen@CC -Anyone Welcome! When: December 10th 4:00-5:30 (we'll start with the panel, so feel free to leave early if you have to) Where: GVU Cafe (2nd floor of the TSRB) Jill Dimond and Lana Yarosh will be moderating a discussion panel with three successful Georgia Tech women: * Amy Bruckman is a tenured faculty member leading multiple successful research initiatives * Andrea Thomaz is in her second year as a faculty member at this top-tier research institution * Nova Ahmed has recently successfully completed her Ph.D. proposal Each of these women has achieved impressive milestones in academia. Yet, sometimes they share a strange feeling -- a fear that others will discover that they are not really as accomplished as they seem on paper! Have you ever felt this way? If you have ever felt that your successes are due more to luck than actual achievement or skill, that you will be discovered to be a "fraud," or that you're not really cut out for this grad school thing, you are NOT alone! Inspired from a similar panel at the Grace Hopper Conference, others have also experienced this phenomenon (known as the "Impostor Syndrome"<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome>). Come have dinner with other women in the college, join in the discussion, and share strategies for coping with this insidious syndrome! Please RSVP jpdimond@cc.gatech.edu<mailto:jpdimond@cc.gatech.edu> by Monday 12/8 if you will be joining us for dinner so that we can get enough food for everybody! Elizabeth Collums Program Coordinator Office of Outreach, Enrollment and Community The College of Computing at Georgia Tech 801 Atlantic Drive Atlanta, GA 30332-0280