Skills | Rebecca Stamm

I am a member of Girl Develop It Philadelphia and as someone who wants to get into technology, it was one of the best things I ever joined.

The tech field is notoriously white male dominated and the mission of Girl Develop It is trying to change that ratio. They sponsor many classes and events, including many that are on this blog. The group – which is found on Meetup – is also great for a place to network and learn from others on what it takes to be a success in the field. I’ve been able to fill up my LinkedIn page with connections who are relevant to my chosen field. I’ve been able to run into people I’ve met before and it’s always nice to find a friendly face when I go to a tech event now.

As of this writing, I have been to 6 so far- I always look forward to more!

I took an online HTML class from the Women’s Coding Collective. For this excercise, we were supposed to design something that had:

A title
A main heading
Text of the poem
An image or two
A link to the poet’s website, Wikipedia page, or a similar resource
A bulleted list of tidbits about the poem (e.g., nationality of the poet, year it was written, references in pop culture, etc.)

AND This is what I came up with!
Monday’s Child

Monday’s child is fair of face,

Tuesday’s child is full of grace,

Wednesday’s child is full of woe,

Thursday’s child has far to go,

Friday’s child is loving and giving,

Saturday’s child works hard for a living,

But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day

Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.

Poem fun things:

First recorded in 1838 and collected by James Halliwell-Phillipps, who was born in London.
Monday’s Child Wikipedia page
“Friday’s Child” (1967) is an episode of the original Star Trek television series. The name of episode seems to come from the poem.

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