Who excelled academically in your family?

[Horus]

Dad: B Sci Chemical Engineering
Mom: B Sci, Nutritional Studies, B.A-History
Sister: B.A, Radio-Television arts
Me:...High-School...

 

[Brutuskend]

My Dad.

He was either in school, or teaching school my whole life.

Up until he retired a few years back he was a Prof. at the UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA in Gainesville.

 

[Ogg]

Me, just look at this sweet job that it got me!!!
neffing all day and running off the "old timer" whiners

 

[bradruth]

Me, by default. Almost 2 out of 4 years of college done. My mom graduated high school and my dad got his GED.

Although my stepsister has a bachelors in Psychology and a masters in Social Work.

 

[NutBucket]

Cousin, dad's side. Math professor (one of those crazy genius types).

 

[Orsorum]

My mom has a Masters degree in education (been teaching for near forty years now) and my dad has an MBA (from... Arkansas state? He got it while he was in the AF); my sister has her JD from USD and hopefully passed the CA bar after her second attempt.

Both my parents have had long, successful careers.

I'm at the Univ. of Wa right now, looking at maybe GWU or UMich if I can raise my LSAT a bit, if not probably GMU, William and Mary or Univ. of Wa.

So it's kind of a toss up, between my sister and me I would say myself.

 

[Ausm]

Dad: Self Taught Mechanical Engineer

Mom: HS Graduate

me: College Dropout -4 year Tech School

Brother: PHD in C.S and E.E. Worked for Intel,Xerox, and Cray Super Computers.He also Developed Simplescalar which is a system software infrastructure used to build modeling applications for program performance analysis, detailed microarchitectural modeling, and hardware-software co-verification.

He is currently a professor @ Umich in the CS Dept.

Sysadmin

 

[cyclistca]

Our Cat. I guess that does not say much for our family.

 

[datalink7]

Nobody.

I'm going to finish college, but I'm not excelling.

My mom finished her BA, but had to do it over 10 years because she had a family.

My dad only went to 1 year of college then dropped out because I was born so he could get a job with longer hours.

My sister dropped out of college.

My other sister is still in high school, but says she doesn't want to go to college.

 

[Ogg]

Originally posted by: cyclistca
Our Cat. I guess that does not say much for our family.

:beer:

 

[Pex]

my brother is HVAC tech. my sister has a doctorate in something i cant pronounce. i am going for my bachelor's in comp info sys.

edit: dad went into nam and never finished college.
mom has BS in biology. both work at merck.

sister works in a lab at wake forest

 

[hdeck]

me

 

[Dedpuhl]

Me. I have a B.S. in Civil Engineer. My dad attended ~2 years of college (business, but spent most of his time w/ the golf team), my mom graduated from HS, and my sister dropped out of school in the 11th grade. I consider my mom to be intelligent. My dad is .....not so bright. My sister is as dumb as a pile of bricks.

AFAIK, there have been only 3 college grads in my entire family. My uncle has a Bachelors and Masters degree in liberal arts (art or photography). My cousin, on my mom's side, has a Bachelors in History.

 

[TwinkleToes77]

My sister and I both went to good universities. But i decided to get married before persuing a career as to where she decided to persue her career and then maybe get married so shes advanced further than I academically.

 

[GasX]

My father has a PhD in Clinical Chemistry and just retired after a long and fruitful career in industry and academia. I have a BA from UPenn and an MS from NJIT. However, my sister is the real academic in the family:

Salutatorian in High School
Dual Major at Brown
PhD in French Literature from UPenn

She is also married to a guy with a BS from Yale and a PhD from Cambridge. He's a professor at Oxford.

Their son is going to be SUCH a bookworm...

 

[ed21x]

My generation in the family:

Me: Berkeley
Sister: MIT
Cousin 1: Harvard
Cousin 2: Columbia

however, HS and college are completely different and I know quite a few people who didn't do as well in HS that are easily better programmers and electrical engineers than me.

 

[T2T III]

Me. Actually, the rest of my family didn't accomplish much academically. They basically got enough education to get them into some kind of trade. None of them are business professionals. My sister is dating a convicted pedophile and she had to sign over custody of her children to her ex-husband while she continued to date the bum.

Wait ... my words kind of sound like a country music song.

 

[jagr10]

Probably everyone on my mother's side. They're either engineers or doctors. I'm still a bum in university.

 

[PrinceofWands]

As in highest grade/most degrees, highest grades, or most overall knowledge?

 

[Supermercado]

I'd probably say my dad or my aunt. He's got a Master's in business, I think, from South Carolina and he went to Embry Riddle. I think my aunt's a CPA with a degree from South Carolina. I don't see myself surpassing either of those with just a BSCS from Clemson.

 

[Brutuskend]

BTW: The end result of my Dad always being in school was that I had NO desire to go.

I guess I resented school because it kept my Dad from me. Even when he WAS around, he was usually busy with school work.

Has anyone else had this experience?

 

[dxkj]

Me, I'm a fucking genious.

 

[BigPoppa]

My family isn't very educated really, so they're all excited for me.

Grandfather on dad's side: BA or BS from UIUC, he got it a long time ago. He worked at IBM.
Grandma on mom's side: BA from a small college in Fremont, CA. She worked as a manager at Sysco, now she's doing taxes at H&R Block.
My dad, his brothers, and his sister aren't college educated. He and all but one of his 4 brothers served in the navy/national guard. One uncle is disabled from service, one works with my dad in the same national guard building (they both make between 50-60k as CW3's, not bad for a non college grad in Montana, and my uncles wife is also in the NG), and another uncle was in the Air national guard, he recently got out of warrant officer candidacy school and is now working at a training site.
Mom: Nursing school. Through experience she knows a rediculous amount of human biology and pharmaceuticals.

As for myself: I've been at Georgia Tech for nearly 2 semesters. Bad idea. I've learned a lot about myself in the year though: I don't want to be an engineer, and Montana IS home, to name a few. I'm transferring to U of Montana into the pharmacy program. I find I understand chemistry and enjoy it much more than any other field of study. It will also give me a spring board into teaching and/or research.

 

[zillafurby]

Originally posted by: illusion88
Haha I had to drop out of commnity college cause I suck at school.... and life in general

/myself

so work on your skills

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
BTW: The end result of my Dad always being in school was that I had NO desire to go.

I guess I resented school because it kept my Dad from me. Even when he WAS around, he was usually busy with school work.

Has anyone else had this experience?

My dad met my mom in college in 1968. He got his PhD in Film and Telecommunications in 1995.
So yeah, I know what you mean.

I never really thought about that, but maybe that does have something to do with why it took me 10 years after graduating HS before I finally got my first bachelor's degree.

My mom has a BS in something totally unrelated to her career in management in city and county government.
I've got two BS degrees:
General Science w/ emphasis in Psychology and Chemistry, 1998, GPA: 2.1
Computer Science, 2001, GPA: 3.7
Yes, the first one was a very large waste of my money and my life.

My wife has been too busy having kids to get a degree yet. She has about a year and a half of college credit right now and is planning on getting an Associates degree in the next year, then doing some kind of medical tech program in a few years when our kids are all in school.

My brother and sister are 14 and 12 so we will see.