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As a child, I had the strangest notions of the world

and some of my former habits could be described as relatively dubious

from the point of view of today's grown-ups

So let's indulge in some nostalgia together and let's roll up the past of little marshell

I thought that after swallowing melon seeds in my belly a tree would grow

so after eating a slice of melon I spit out all kernels neatly

Also, I often left a last bite of food on the plate - no matter what

That's why the sun never shone the next day.

#noteatenup

As a child, I was always walking to the refrigerator to see if there was anything to eat

Even if there was nothing edible around

it took maybe thirty minutes and I walked back to the fridge again to see if there was anything to eat

about 20 times a day

Now that I think about it, it's actually saddening

Hashtag

#Nothingtoeat

When I drove past the factory premises in my car

and I saw the industrial chimneys in the distance

I sometimes thought to myself

Wow, that's where the clouds come from...

Yeah, what else hehehe

and at traffic lights I was convinced

that they were controlled by people

and that there were cameras in the lights

with which they had an overview of the streets

So when I walked across the street for the first time without permission

I was really scared to get arrested

Crossed the street in red, huh?

And what is this?

You haven't eaten your plate out either!

Shame on you

Back in the days I owned a huge box of Lego parts

and I sometimes spent hours building things

only to destroy them again just for fun

But if someone else broke my buildings

the world would collapse for me

[suppressed feelings]

When the internet was still in its infancy and I went online for the first time

I never dared to type evil words in Google

Because I was worried that the police would storm our apartment

Freeze!

What did he type in?

Evil words

and didn't he walk across the street without permission?

And there's still some food left on his plate

Shame on you!

I loved the movies of the Neverending Story back then

and for a short time I really believed that

if you found the right book in our world

you really could get to Phantásia

So every time I got a new version of the book

I examined it meticulously for magical properties

When I was alone in my room

and Dragonball was running on TV

I often tried to summon a KameHameHa or float in the air

[grand master saiyajin summons KaMeHaMeHa]

Will Marshell master the KaMeHaMeHa?

Or will his parents call the doctor first?

Find out in the next episode of Marshell Ball Z!

I hated taking a nap at noon

and it was only an invention of the adults

to keep the children quiet

Whether in kindergarten or at home

at the end I was lying in bed, staring boredly at the ceiling and just waiting

FOR IT TO BE OVER!!!!

And while we're on the subject of sleeping anyway

Sometimes I got scared of the outlines created by the objects in the room

[creepy music] when the light was turned off at night

[little Marshell almost crying]

To calm me down, I used to place my Bobo close to my bed

because I thought he was looking after me at night

In the right corner...

Bobo the Plush Boxer!

[crowd cheering]

And in the left corner......

a.... a....

a chair

Eh... fight!

O.....k......

But let's come to little Marshell's most brilliant conviction:

I thought as a child you could use things like blankets or bed varnishes as a parachute

I wanted to play superhero as a child

so I tied a sheet around my neck

and jumped from my bunk bed

[I believed I could fly, I believed I could touch the sky]

And...

I broke my arm

Haven't you written down anything from your childhood into the comments yet?

And you haven't clicked on this button yet?

Shame on you!

Your Marshell

For more infomation >> What I Thought and Did as a German Kid | Marshell - Duration: 4:45.

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Conversation with Melinda Gates: What Was Your Pathway Into Tech? - Duration: 5:13.

I didn't start studying computer science until college,

which I think is really common for a lot of us.

And I almost took a programming class in high school,

but a girlfriend of mine had said,

"You know, nobody takes that class,

it's just a bunch of dudes."

And so I said, "Okay",

and then I took something else with her.

And then my freshman year at the UW

I took a computer science class.

And it took maybe two weeks I think

before I changed my major

and wanted to study that.

Well, in high school I had a teacher

who was my math teacher,

and she'd gone to a convention

and seen these things called computers.

Apple had just come out with their Apple II,

so she went to the principal of the school,

it was an all-girls school,

headed by a nun, and said, "We need to get some of these

for the girls," and so she succeeded

in getting about a dozen computers.

And she just asked a bunch of us in math class,

it was an all-girl school, "So do you wanna do this thing?

We can make it really fun".

And so a bunch of us signed up.

And so I didn't have the thing

about okay, were guys better than me or not.

It was just a bunch of girls

and we were just coding away.

And then I got in college, and not very many women

in my freshman class, and

almost none my sophomore year.

And so I just got used to that in college,

I was there for three years just basically

being in classes with males,

I mean that's just kinda what you did,

and yeah, so I got hooked.

You know, it's not like it came naturally

to me immediately, but the fact that it was kinda

challenging for me I thought was really fun,

and so I kinda kept at it and it felt really rewarding

I think, because of that.

I spent a summer, a week of my summer,

at the UW DawgBytes camp, which is like just

a week to introduce girls to coding.

And I fell in love with it because it's the perfect balance

of creativity and logic.

I can't draw for my life,

(group laughs)

but you can create a lot of things just with code.

Tell us more about TUNE House and what it does for you,

and the community of support,

and we'd just love to hear more about that.

The TUNE House is a program where I guess eight

of us are coming together who are interested

in pursuing tech, and it's a scholarship program

where we live in this space.

Sometimes in tech it's difficult for us

to share our stories of failure as well as success.

And this space has been really important for that,

having that discussion.

Kind of just having that time to think about what went wrong

and discuss what went wrong and how we can improve,

in addition to celebrating each other's successes,

which is equally important.

But having that balance, and having the really friendly

and open and safe space to do that

has been really important.

Yeah, it's interesting you use the word safe.

Cause that's what a lot of women will talk to you about

in something, anything they're trying to pursue that's hard,

having a safe space to do it in, right?

Makes a huge difference

to feeling like you can move forward

and that you're supported.

And who are some of your role models?

Actually a lot of my role models were astronauts,

so Kalpana Chawla,

Sally Ride, Buzz Aldrin,

so all these people that were so brave

and they went to space

and just having that sort of

I'm pushing the boundaries of what can be done

and literally pushing the boundaries of

what can be done on Earth.

So just having that idea in the back of your head growing up

was really.

You know it's interesting so my dad worked on

the very earliest Apollo missions

like when they landed

(group laughing)

on the moon, he was an engineer that

they worked on radiators actually for the Apollo mission,

so as a little girl

he would take my sister and me and my mom

and we'd go in our pajamas to his friend's house,

who's also an engineer across town

and we'd all wait and wait by the black and white set

to watch the rocket,

of course you know it would take longer and longer

and I'd fall asleep and they'd wake me up for it,

but I think that idea that engineering and mathematics

is boundless, that you could put a man on the moon, right?

Cause then when I got into software,

that was what interested me so much

when I came and interviewed for the job at Microsoft

is they were creating something new that didn't exist.

They knew they were changing the world,

cause they're making something that doesn't exist.

And same thing when you all create a new app today, right

or any new thing that you're doing,

you're expanding the possibilities, which is pretty neat.

How important was it that quite a few of the TAs

and professors are women?

Like had it been all male TAs and all male professors,

would that have been a different experience you think?

Most likely,

actually the professor that I have for the first

class in the series, Riley Porter,

she was amazing and I looked up to her

and just seeing how successful she was,

even at such a young age was really inspiring to me.

And so Melinda, what would be

your biggest piece of advice to these

upcomings.

Stick with it.

(group laughing)

The possibilities are so endless in this field,

I mean what you can create from neural networks

to machine learning, to biology and chemistry,

to you know some new app that'll change somebody's life,

wow, just keep going.

If I was starting over again

I would definitely go into tech again, no doubt about it.