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Ok, fess up, everyone. Which PhDs out in #AcademicTwitter have parents without any college degrees at all? 🙋🏻♀️#firstgen twitter.com/FromPhDtoLife/…
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Dr. Tamsyn Mowes-Engrys
@TamsynMedieval
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No degrees, a-levels or o-levels. But my dad studied of his own volition. In his breaks from bus driving, he would analyze the Iliad for the hell of it. pic.twitter.com/tShOc7S0sR
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Laura R. Prieto
@Laura_R_Prieto
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Love that. My father, who worked as an electrician in factories (no college at all) kept his textbooks with him all his life. He especially liked to re-read and recite the poems he had learned as a teenager.
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Joseph Gagné ⚜️
@josgagne
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✋🤚 Both hands. Never mind a PhD. High school too. They told me to get an education. They forgot to tell me where to stop. lol
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Melinda Gonzales-Backen
@DrGonzo_Backen
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Haha I say this too. Only partly joking.
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Dr. Ella Howard
@EllaKHoward
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31. sij |
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My mom took a few classes at Citrus Community College. My father used the G.I. Bill to do some at Pasadena Community College.
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Laura R. Prieto
@Laura_R_Prieto
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My mother took one community college class, an intro to English lit; I still have her textbooks and one of the essays she wrote. That’s all the college experience of either one of my parents.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves
@bordergroves
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31. sij |
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Neither my parents, grandparents, nor great grandparents had the benefit of higher education. #FirstGen students have an uphill journey, especially regarding access to #SocialCapital. Keep striving, folks!
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Charly Verstraet
@CharlyVerstraet
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31. sij |
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My parents did not even go to high school. My dad started working at 16 and my mom at 14. I am the first generation to go to college. First generation to get a PhD. And all of this in my second language as I moved to the US when I was 21. #firstgen #immigrant
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Maria Gonzalez
@taurocephala
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I have almost identical history. My mother was a great seamstress and my father a taxi drive both Spaniard immigrant in Venezuela. I am the first and only person in my entire family with a PhD also in a second language. #FightingImpostorSydromeForYears
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