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Dr Dad: The Struggle of Being the Prof's Kid

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Good ol' chalkboard design Towards the end of high-school people always asked me one seemingly simple question, "What are you going to study at university?". For me it wasn't always as easy a question as I originally thought. My choice of university was pretty obvious with my father being a professor at my local university, the tuition reduction was sufficient that very large scholarships from other schools would need to happen before I would even consider elsewhere.  With my university effectively picked, now all I needed to do was pick a program. I had always leaned heavily towards STEM fields. Math, science and building things had always intrigued me since I was young. This helped me narrow down my choices down to an engineering discipline.  Looking at built in waveforms from the FMCOMMS4 RF transceiver By grade twelve I had selected either chemical or electrical engineering. At that stage it was a pretty even choice but I ended up going with c...