No academic endeavor has been more disappointing for me than Machine Learning. At some point I realized it was just statistics, it was prediction, it was regression... So why not just call it that? Where's the artificial "intelligence", where's the "learning"? The only intelligence to it is from the scientist who does the data mining, does the feature selection, and chooses the problem category.
I am a female software engineer who is an introvert too. It's wrong to assume that men want to work alone and women want to work with people... it ignores a lot individuals like me. I currently work in an open office environment and find it very hard to concentrate with people around me. I don't want people to assume that bc I'm female I want to work with people. I really really don't. People should stop trying to force women as a category into computer science, and just focus on the individual.