<p>I always liked math and my dad was (and still is) a structural engineering professor, but I didn’t think of going into the field until he made a comment at a party for his students about my being “the next engineer in the family.” I thought, huh, I guess I COULD do that! It’s probably a good thing I didn’t think about the fact that my spatial abilities are about zero, or I would have picked a different field! I’ve had to train myself to think in 3D - my brain is flat as a pancake, it feels like.</p>
<p>My sister was also good at math, but she didn’t like it. So she became a teacher.</p>
<p>I met my future husband in engineering grad school. :)</p>
<p>My daughter is NOT mathematically inclined at all. She takes honors math, but has to work at it very hard. My older son, on the other hand, is a math whiz, even with his severe mental illness. He blows me away!</p>