I apologize for leaving town without warning (you do care, don’t you?), but I went up to Philadelphia for the weekend, got back late Monday, and still haven’t caught up with email and other items.
The occasion was one last set of discussions with daughter Jessie about her graduate school decision. Those of you who have been here from the beginning will recall that Jessie orginally provoked me into starting Discriminations with promises of posting and additional help … and then she disappeared into the woodwork of her work at Bryn Mawr, from which she’s about to graduate.
(Jessie, if you’re reading this, stop, because it’ll make you blush.) Anyway, she was accepted into a whole bunch of the top Ph.D. programs in Applied Physics (MIT, Harvard, Cornell, UCLA, Caltech, and Stanford), and she has just decided to attend Caltech.
What she’s been doing all year wasn’t blogging, but it obviously hasn’t been bad.
Wow!
Wow! You oughtta be proud.
Based on everything I’ve seen, you have great reason to be proud of your daughter. I’m referring to her record so far.
BUT …
Although I’m sure you have probably never heard about something called “affirmative action”, it must have at least crossed your mind that saying
“my daughter was accepted to graduate school in physics at MIT and Harvard and Caltech”
just doesn’t sound as good as saying
“my son was accepted to graduate school in physics at MIT and Harvard and Caltech”.
John,
I’m a “lurker” on your blog, but wanted to speak up and say Congratulations to you and Jessie.
Good luck with the Ph.D. program Jessie.
Jen Gratz
Great choice–Pasadena is beautiful, the campus is great and she’ll be very popular!
Jessie, congratulations on your success so far and best of luck in the future. Caltech is terrific.
Also nice work in getting John to start a blog with “help” from you. He does a great job and is always interesting and informative.
John, I would think by now that you would know never to believe your children when they say that they will help. :-)
Congratulations to Jessie on her acceptance to all of the top physics schools. Caltech is a great choice, but she could not go wrong with any of them.
Congratulations, Jessie!
All of us miss you, you know–your friends from Japan.
You’d better make us proud!
;)
Yes, I know I’ve been remiss in my blogging duties… but really, you don’t want to hear from me when you can hear from my dad! He’s got much more to say.
Thanks, you all! I think I’ll have fun there, too.