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Posted on 07/02/2007 12:09:07 PM PDT by NattieShea
To those of you who participated on this thread, I have news that should please you.
It went down to the wire, but it was Stanford that beat out Cornell in the “NattieShea Derby.” She will be starting there this fall as a junior, seeking a degree in civil engineering with an environmental engineering emphasis coupled with a minor in biology. The objective is graduate study in soil microbial biology.
It was Stanford's ‘wet track’ in civil engineering that gave them the advantage over Cornell (she was accepted to both) because it takes advantage of the biology, organic chemistry, and physics she has already completed. She’s already made some great relationships in the respective departments of both schools, as they were very happy with her helpfulness in providing them accurate and searchable information. This is important, as she seeks to go to Cornell for graduate school. Both schools think this is the correct choice for now. She will probably have to give up her position as board secretary of the Los Gatos Community Concert Association, because she'll need to work part time to help pay for it.
As to PowerBaby, she will be entering Utah State with a full academic scholarship in animal science. Little do they know, but she also made the California State Junior College finals in the 400m, not bad considering that it is only her second year running and she is still just 18, having completed three years at De Anza Junior College. She has been tutoring calculus for two years.
I want to thank each of you who have touched these girls with your encouragement along the way. I thought a little good news would please you in these dark days. Don't know exactly how we're going to pay for it, but we'll make it work somehow. This family always has.
FReegards, CO
Congratulations to you and your family. May God continue to bless you and your family.
I spent some time at Stanford back in the early ‘90’s. Wasn’t academic, it was in the hospital going through a lumbar fusion so I can’t proclaim a Stanford education. :^)
Cheers!
Thanks, in this economy we're definitely going to need His protection. I'll let you know how things turn out.
Very interesting. It is just like reading about our own problems. History repeating itself. You might want to use this research in one of your college courses. You guys are amazing of course. Love you both.
You don’t know the half of it. These girls are both geniuses, and beautiful to boot. Carry_Okie is a slave driver too (just kidding).
So...I finally get to your announcement about Stanford. I’m sure that she has made the right choice. And congratulations to both the girls. I’m looking forward to seeing K in the Olympics one of these days. Tell Nattie I’m surely proud of her. And tell her that I just read the whole paper......again. It was even better this time because of what is happening before our very eyes. Hugs all around.
Dave, I wish you could meet this family. They are great people. Carry has done a fantastic job raising the girls. You couldn’t believe how intelligent they are. I fell in love with the whole family when Nattie was just 14 and started corresponding with me via Freepmail, then e-mail. Finally two years ago, they came to WV and we enjoyed a wonderful visit with them. So I can say that I am also busting my buttons over the girl’s successes.
I am proud to announce that FReeper PowerBaby will be valedictorian of the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences at Utah State University. She was 4.0 there, the last semester taking 21 units, running on the track team, and serving as a teaching fellow. Most impressive to me was that she endured a summer as the lead hand on a sheep dairy. She was handling bales, delivering and bottle-feeding lambs, milking twice a day and did it while living with a very hard lady in charge in the midst of an ugly divorce.
PowerBaby, you earned every bit of it. Congratulations!
Congratulations to K. Yes, I am sure she earned the title. She is such a “power” girl. Goes to show you what you can do when you love what you are doing. The girls continue to make you both proud. I have read their Roman Empire paper twice and I plan on reading again. I have it bookmarked from long ago.
!!!I was pleased enough, when my daughter squeaked into Phi Beta Kappa!
A "Sheep Dairy?" I don't know why I never thought of milking sheep before! It just never occurred to me!! I knew they milk cows, goats and a few others like camels, etc., but SHEEP never entered my numb skull!!!
Somehow, I'm pleased but not too surprised since I spent that one weekend with the four of you on that monument to environmental sanity and righteousness. You are blessed with truly brilliant and beautiful daughters, who are also FReepers that make all of us quite proud!!!
Powerbaby, atta boy, girl!!!
My oldest went on to become a weapons manufacturer after leaving CalPoly and my youngest still works at UCSB as a program manager.
Good to see some of the old gang still alive and lurking.
Hey Amerigoman .... are you still in FResno?
Haven’t seen you for awhile.
Still here. Rarely post. Always lurk. Miss the dinners. Assume Jim’s health doesn’t permit the socialising.
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Congratulations to all. Well done!
Congrats, Mark.
I’ve got two in school...
My son is going to Cornell...
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