Since I am not nearly as old as the fossil Farkel, my kid is only graduating high school this year. His gift is a trip to Europe for a month, from us.
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She's Graduating!
by Farkel 43 Replies latest social family
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Farkel
waiting,
: Please pass on to your daughter our congratultions also - so many years in college! Does she have the loans to go along with it? My son does.
Yes. $400,000 worth of them. NOTHING fazes her! As an out-of-state student at Michigan State (where the tuition is about double for a non-resident) she told me it costs $90,000 a year in tuition, which also includes labs fees, books and a modest living allowance. That, plus her undergraduate loans amounts to about $400,000. She's not-the-least-bit worried about it, even though for the next four years she will make under $40,000 per year as a resident. Jen is a princess, and yes: all of her close family calls her Jen.
Did I mention she speaks Spanish like a native? During College she worked as a dietician in a Hospital in Chula Vista, a heavily Hispanic City in the San Diego area. She made a friendship with a native speaker of the language and basically learned it on her own! She took French in school, not Spanish. Yep. She was also Student Body President of her high school (I was her campaign manager), was Miss Hospitality and won the Essay Contest in one of the beauty pageants she competed in, Miss Clairmont (a San Diego community) and she finished fourth in the San Diego County's finale Beauty Pageant known as "Fairest of the Fair." Not a bad ranking for a community of nearly 3,000,000 people. She did the Beauty Pageants not for the glory or for vanity but for the scholarship money. She's not only beautiful, she's practical!
Farkel
Edited by - Farkel on 28 January 2003 1:5:49
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wasasister
Ahhh, what beauty has sprung from your loins!
I'm so happy for you. I know what it means to raise worthwhile human beings. There's no better way in the world to attain immortality.
Most sincere congrats,
Wasa
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imanaliento
congats to you for being the parent you are,
and congats to your daughter for sticking it out, being in that profession takes a lot of work and a lot of years and takes a special kind of person that the world needs.