Got an e-mail today from Chef Jr.'s College Of First Resort. It’s his first and only choice. We’ve been worried because his ACT scores weren’t sent to the school until a week after the application deadline. (He got a 29 out of 36, by the way, which puts him in the top 7 percent of ACT-takers.)
Anyway, long story short, today’s e-mail was to congratulate him on being ACCEPTED! It is a happy day around the Chef house, I can tell you that.
Now there are so many things to get done… and holy crap I’m the father of a COLLEGE STUDENT – when did I get so old? :eek:
No, no, no. Your son is a little kid who only stands a bit more than knee-high to me. I’m sticking with that image because I don’t care for the implications if he’s a college student.
Wading in de Nile aside, congratulations to your son.
We went to a “check out the school” day to look into their engineering program (UTD is sort of the MIT Of The South), but while we were there we found out about a degree program that neither of us had ever heard of:
It is, as the name implies, a degree that’s about the intersection of creativity and high-tech – video game design, sound design for movies and animation, etc. Chef Jr. looked at me after the ATEC presentation and said, “oh my god, THIS would be PERFECT for me.” I had to agree. Plus, the engineering program attracts a lot of engineering rock star students, and I was worried he’d burn out or hate the competition. This sounds better.
I love that he found the perfect program for his interests. I did too. Some schools allow you to create your own major but this doesn’t work so well if your interest is as specific as mine (pathology) because the school may not have the resources. After almost giving up on finding a better match for me and just majoring in Biology, I clicked on the wrong college on the UConn website. Instead of clicking on the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, I clicked on the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. That’s how I found the Pathobiology major - a major dedicated to studying the disease processes of humans and animals - a department that houses the CT Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory and which performs all the state’s disease testing programs.
I was hooked as soon as I read the description and was so paranoid that I wouldn’t be accepted. I cried when I got my acceptance letter. College is hard enough. Suffering through a major you aren’t 100% interested in is hell (thank god community college only took me 1.5 years because I couldn’t handle any more Liberal Arts than that).
