The very first presentation I gave as a masters student, I was humilliated by a senior professor -a woman- in front of all my peers and other professors (~100 people). She told me my project was stupid & that I would never succeed in science because my ideas were ridiculous 1/n I kept it together, addressed her questions, and then quitely left the big conference room and went to a private corner and cried. Someone saw me and they told her. Later that day, she approached me and told me again, that I would never succeed in science bc I was weak 2/n