growing up as a PK

Many of you probably know that both of my parents are professors which makes me a "PK," a professor's kid. My life has been pretty interesting growing up with two parents as professors. From a very early age people would call the house asking for "Dr. Lee" I would subsequently ask them "which one?"

People always seem pretty impressed by their subject-matter too. My Dad teaches Pharmacy; perks being that he deals with a lot of lab rats so we always had free hamster cages/food. Mamma Lee teach Computer Science; perks being that she knows a lot about computers, downside being that she knows A LOT about computers. She even has a facebook account, a MSN/GChat SN, and is probably reading this post now ( hi mom!).

Today I spent some time at my Dad's lab and had a chance to speak briefly with some of his students. It's really interesting hearing from students talk about your parents/their professors. Consensus is that my Dad is a hard-worker and good professor (not too scary either). And apparently Mamma Lee is pretty well-known on campus for being a challenging teacher with high expectations that you learn a lot from (also, students know they can reach her by email/chat at 1am in the morning).

I think I've got some pretty great parents who I respect and admire a lot; I just wish Mamma Lee would stop poking me on facebook.