When did you realize that you wanted to go into a STEM field? What inspired you to do so? Keep in mind Im not talking a specific topic per se, but like when a kid decides they want to go into a field, that kind of inspiration.
(ie. I knew since I was a kid that I wanted to go into math because I always really liked numbers)
What is your story, Veeky Forums?
>When did you realize that you wanted to go into a STEM field?
After I didn't realize on time and it was too late
>After I didn't realize on time and it was too late
Second this. I regret STEM.
when i my lawyer friend told me to not go into law because computers were going to put him out of job
I knew since I was a small child. My parents were an influence, I think. Not like they pushed me into it, just in the sense that they stressed the value of education, especially math. By the time I was a young adolescent I had fixated on biology, though I didn't find my niche until my Master's.
Im in a similar boat... when I was a child I wanted to be a marine biologist, since I really liked fish and the ocean. When I grew up a little bit I realized that I wanted to go into genetic engineering, and then since then realized that the kind of genetic engineering I wanna do is labelled as synthetic biology, so Im hoping to go to grad school for that.
I was autistic and wasn't ever good at anything else but math, so it was pretty clear for me.
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Although through the high school I hated myself for being a depressed autist, so I spent all my time experimenting with drugs, lifting weights, reading philosophy and psychology and trying to understand social interaction.
I've managed to become a semi-normie and have sex and do drugs, but now I realize even more that's not what fulfills me. I'm back to social isolation and 12-hours-per-day studying sessions to make up for the 4 years of time wasted away.
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I also like abstract concepts.
Numberphile made me want to go into math when I was in highschool
When I first saw Avatar, I was amazed by how the tech looked like, I also enjoyed how spacey it looked and that got me hooked into tech, space, future stuf, etc.... I was also good with computers as a kid and helped many people on how to use them. Im slowly learnung how to program and do other things as well (school and tech news), but it sucks when you have events that slow you down (heartbreaks, deaths, depression, etc). Im still hopeful on building my space company someday.
desu just kind of normal path of being good in math and science classes and absolutely hating public speaking, art classes. I really like history and cooking as well but I didn't think I could get a comfy job with those so chose EE and genuinely enjoy it now.
>heartbreaks, deaths, depression, etc
Kek
I hated literature class in high school and people were telling me the money was in STEM field, so I did engineering in university.
I realised STEM is dull as fuck about halfway through uni. Graduated and starting work in government instead doing fuck all and getting nice pay/benefits
>tfw too smart for STEM
I wish I did manual labor. I'd be ripped, beautiful, and healthy. But I chose to sit on my ass and get cancer.
r u 12
manual labor makes u age at 2x speed
>t. previous logger and carpenter
>I was also good with computers as a kid
>Im slowly learnung how to program
lmao
i guess being "good with computers" meant knowing which porn sites are best?
I dont get this picture what do they mean by break
Probably light activities
The only things I was ever good at back in school were chemistry, physics and mathematics.
I was also kinda good at literature but unlike the other subjects, literature left me very burned out.
Basically, I was born for STEM. And by that I mean that I was born without any talent for anything else other than writing pretty symbols and solving equations. Now majoring in pure mathematics.
I always enjoyed building stuff and structures, and I always looked up to my grandfather. He was a civil engineer who pioneered into the environmental field, and looking at shit he did I felt like it was something I coild be very happy doing.
When I read "100 basic questions about science" and I'm not even joking.
Was like 11 or 12.
I read too much sci fi as a kid and now I'm a chemist.
When I was in 6th grade, poor, and better at math than my parents
>tfw now make more than either of my parents
Litfag here, how does it feel to be autistic, scifags?
It feels like running in the 90s