CVPR Daily - 2019 Thursday

eight years in Macedonia. Then I went to high school. It was not a problem. I passed all the exams. I was in a class which, on the first day, didn’t look like nice people in the class. I didn’t know anyone. I knew some people in the other classes. It looked like all nerds. I came back from school. I went to my dad and said, “ Please can you find any solution to move me to a different class? ” He asked, “ Why? ” I said, “ You know, all of them are nerds. It doesn’t look nice. I don’t want to be there. ” He said, “ You know what, you can’t get everything easily in life. Either, you stay in that class or you don’t go to school anymore. That’s my decision. I won’t help you. ” That’s what he told me when I was 14. And you didn’t take advantage of this to quit school? [ laughs ] No, that was not an option. I always wanted to improve myself and learn new stuff. So one more time, you tell me that you took the obvious choice. Again, yeah! [ both laugh ] Read more interviews with women scientists 28 DAILY CVPR Tuesday Women in Comp. Vision