Day 909 of 1000
The last several weeks have tried our patience. The early graduate school communications have started. There is both joy and disappointment. There are emails, phone calls, and letters flowing between the kids and potential professors, those professors’ graduate students, and school administrators. We have seen the great importance of talking to current and past graduate students. Both kids have great opportunities–not just pretty good, but great.
It is interesting that their graduate school opportunities are NOT what they might have expected when they started the process. Everyone told them that the school they attend is important, but not even remotely as important as the professor they get. That has been true in spades. It looks like both kids will have choices to make both in the location and content of their graduate degree.
The decisions will almost certainly be made well before the end of April. I am dying to say something about it all, but even though hard offers have been extended, we are still in the middle of the process. …tribulation worketh patience
Betty Blonde #72 – 10/24/2008
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