30 years

It was this day, 30 years ago that an assailant killed 14 women at École Polytechnique de Montréal. At the time I was still in high school and wasn't looking far enough ahead yet to know that I would eventually end up as an engineering student myself. Once I entered engineering at university I saw that maybe only 5% of students were female. So on the first anniversary of this event that took place once I was in university; this is where it really struck me at how terrible the whole thing was. As a high school student I didn't really grok it very well.

The change that took place on this 30th anniversary is to no longer refer to this as the shooting of 6 December 1989, but to further indicate it was an anti-feminist mass shooting.

Though none of the families of these 14 women will likely ever visit this blog, my thoughts and prayers are with them on this grim anniversary.