Generational STEM

How many of you guys are first generation STEM, or higher level education in your families?

Does anyone have a STEM PhD in their nuclear family?

Does a STEM degree in the family increase the likelihood that their child will pursue a degree in STEM?

my mom is/was a white trash turboslut. i knew i was a product of a one night stand, but it wasn't until after i graduated engineering school that i found out my bio dad was a high level engineer at lockheed martin.

i'm the only one in my family to have ever graduated college.

anecdotal, but take it for what you will.

Thanks for sharing, I am actually looking for anecdotes like this.

My dad was a fireman until I was born, then he went to a sister school of a big university (basically a step above a community college but not up to par with a real uni) for programming
My mom has worked the same clerk job for the city police dept since she finished high school.
My mom's brother is a statistician though, with an IQ of 165, and has worked for Lockheed, and Boeing, and has worked as a contractor for a slew of unis, national labs, etc.

Wow mate.

I wouldn't say that about my mom, but I am the product of a one night stand, or very similar.

It was a big secret too my whole life, but I always suspected since my brother looks nothing like me.

Eventually was told (when I was 23 and my mom and step dad divorced), after much pressuring of my mom that, my biological dad was a con artist or something, made a lot of money but eventually got busted on some technicality. Anyway, he did his time in jail and got a degree in law. I'm studying math though, and wanna go into weapons development research. Might meet him one of these days when I've achieved something.

First of the family to get a college education, as my divorced parents both never finished high school and have been working as a bus driver (mom) and a car mechanic (dad) since their teens. Rest of the family mostly consists of highschool dropouts. I do appreciate the chance I have now to turn my life into something better by going to college. And I love my field (Biochem)

>i was a product of a one night stand
>my bio dad was a high level engineer at lockheed martin
top jej. engineers are just as savage as niggers.

My mom has a PhD in economics. I guess it's not really STEM but her thesis involved a lot of math. From what I understand she had to learn FORTRAN and take multivariate calculus, linear algebra, and dimensional analysis to do her thesis.

>Dad was a phd chemist
>I went to law school

I'm doing a STEM PhD. My parents both have undergrad degrees, dad has an MBA.

On my mother's side, grandparents didn't go to college. Aunts and uncles range from no college to MS in molecular biology (uncle dropped out of PhD program). On my father's side, grandparents had master's degrees.

I would guess that a STEM degree in the family does increase likelihood of children pursuing a degree, because of two reasons. First, the children would be likely to inherit some the intellectual capabilities requisite to pursue a PhD. Second, the children would be exposed to science and scientific research. My family is not uneducated, but I didn't know the first thing about the upper echelons of academia and training in the sciences and how this country farms elite scientific talent and what not.