Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.
As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.
My interest in science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. degree studies in college while I was in my early teens.
My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.
My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.
I was particularly good at math and science.
I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.
I love math and science, and also, my mom is a doctor. I grew up not even having an awareness that women were not supposed to be good at science.
My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies.
From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly.