What were the factors that brought me into STEM
I think that the option to go into a STEM field was never off of the table for me. When I was young it was one of the many options that I could choose... although at that time all I wanted to be was a cartoonist, or a comic book artist, so STEM wasn't really something I thought about doing. I do remember watching science programs on television after school, there was Bill Nye The Science Guy, Beakman's World, and of course The Magic School Bus. I believe that I went to a pretty good school for exploring science, I may have been privileged to go to a school that was able to afford the needed equipment and setups for learning science. My parents were not a deciding factor in my decision to pursue STEM, however, they were not restrictive on our education choices so that may have helped open the doors for exploration. I think that I chose STEM because it just seemed right and I wanted to understand more about the world, but I can't say that I feel like I belong. There may