Science | R Neubecker
A few weeks into my Ph.D. program, as the new students were still getting acquainted with one another, the conversation turned to our parents’ professions. I wasn’t surprised to learn that quite a few of my new classmates had parents who were professors; the rest were in other highly respected professions. I was too embarrassed to share that my parents had no higher education. They were denied it because they grew up during the Cultural Revolution in China.