I'm interested in knowing if anyone here are the first in their family to pursue STEM, Med, Mathematics or physics

Physics ms here. First in my family. My parents hate it, they wanted me to be an actuary or lawyer

I am. They are proud, sort of, because they think there are BIG BUCKS in my future (PROTIP: Not really). As long as we never talk about it, because they are very religious and also very distrustful of scientific expertise, they seem to be ok with it.

I am. First to study any stem degree, doing physics. And no they really don't give a shit. They think im a disappointment because instead of persuing an easy minimum pay dead end job i wanted to learn about things that interest me

I broke the mold by taking physics instead of the previous infinity generations of engineers or whatever their equivalent was at the time. Yes my family is the epitome of white.

Pure math fag here

> father is a lawyer, he doesn't understand what's the purpose of math without applications. He wanted me to do my social service where we worked saying they needed a lot mathematicians there. Absolute BS

> mother psychologist. I explained her once or twice math stuff and, with drawings she has got one or two things

> older brother a surgeon. He got married and has no time. He loves when I make engineers look like fools because they "can't integrate this rational polynomial function"

They think I'm smart when I talk about non math stuff. Math does give thought structure to your brain but I'm average

My grandfather is the only other STEM Master Race, he was an Electrical Engineer in the Navy and worked on Radio waves in the 40s and 50s before becoming the head of big transistor factories in the 60s and retiring in the 80s.

My father's a journalist, my mother a PR specialist for liberal arts colleges. My other grandfather was a financial adviser. I've got an aunt who teaches high school math which is the closest thing.

My brother is getting a PhD in euphonium performance, my mother is absolutely thrilled with him and disappointed in my career path (physics with oceanography focus and marine biology). Asked her what she thought of STEM and she tried arguing with me that in some parts of the country it was actually called STEAM with an A that stands for Arts so she's actually already got a son in STEAM as my brother is an Arts student.

My parents met in their biochem phd program. My dad is forever disappointed that I have a bachelors in EE.

Similar to me. my great grandfather was a genius-tier EE who did classified missile shit for the government during the Cold war. My great uncle was a civil engineer, but my parents and father's parents are all historians/philosophers or some combination. My mom secretly wanted me to be a violin performance major but I did EE instead

My dad told me he was studying something like civil engineering, but on a smaller scale, he would design small parts and draw them to scale (on paper) and what it would look like from different perspectives. The only info he got was measurements. It was at a polytechnic institute but he didn't finish because not enough people where in that program so they closed it. He then became a self made electrical engineer, he would design audio receivers, speakers, subwoofers, and other shit, of he were to study EE at uni I bet he could do it and get a degree.

I am out of resources right now but when I get my shit together I will study physics or mechanical engineering. I'm not good at math though, suggestions? Maybe chemistry, astronomy (not so much math maybe), or any engineering field since you all say that engies only learn up to calc 1... I want science with the least math. Inb4 then it wouldn't be science!!1

Well, some time he will understand that not all children can be as smart as their parents because of regression to the mean