I'm proud of her. Her mother and I divorced during her second year of her four year Bachelor's degree, and she has had to make her own way since then, esp. financially. She's good enough that she has earned something like 6 years worth of grants/scholarships (4 from Canadian govt, 2 from Cornell). So she has done it all on her own. She's sort of a retro hippie/rebel, so I laughed my ass off when she announced she was turning down Cambridge for an Ivy league school in the US. On the other hand, John Cleese was a professor at large at Cornell, so it can't be too stuffy.


That's absolutely awesome!! I would be proud too. She's very lucky and smart to be going in the direction she's going.

I had the opportunity right out of high school to go to college. Being the non-retro hippie/rebel that I was at the time, and for other reasons (the extreme need to escape from parental control), I turned it down. That was the biggest mistake of my life. I took various Law, English and other courses at the community college later, in the late 70's/early 80's. (4.0 GPA then, too.) I look back sometimes, and wonder what direction my life would have taken had I gone to school full-time right after high school. Life is always a struggle, and it's sad for me to think it might have been less so had I made a different decision back then. But who knows. As my mother used to say, I might have been hit by a pie wagon.

Going back has been wonderful, and I'm excited, and proud of all that I'm learning, even if it is only one class at a time. I also like that it gets me out in the world a bit, out of my semi-reclusive little universe. I just wish I was wealthy, so I could quit work and go back full-time.

Here's to your daughter, Murr, to all her hard work and successes, at the right time in her life... image

Torch

edited to add: Thanks all for the encouraging comments, everyone. I'm really not all that scary, tracyanne, I just have a brain that should have been taught years ago, and has been aching for some formal education. And I may never get anywhere NEAR physics...That's what I call scary. (Of course, that's also how I feel about algebra, so who knows?)

I always keep a song in my heart. It's like karaoke for the voices in my head.
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