pepsiman
Distinguished member
- Joined
- Feb 4, 2009
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- 445
- Reason
- Lost a loved one
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- US
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- NY
- City
- Latham
So, my second daughter, Julie, is a geek. President of the robotics club, plans on going into engineering post HS. She's currently wavering between a neurological and a biomedical engineering major (VERY NEW fields, she's looking at Duke and U of Arizona, since they are the front-runners in these fields). She's a junior in high school. Obviously, ALS has had an enormous impact on her life. Today, she presented me with the paperwork for the Capstone Engineering program at her high school. It's a list of questions, mostly trying to gauge her intended direction for future endeavors (god I love spell check). Anyway, she told me that what she wants to do is: First, since resources in High School are limited, she would like to focus on designing and building a better lift system to help caregivers do all those things necessary to aid sufferers of crippling diseases like ALS. Her intended future goal though. is to come up with a cure for diseases of the nervous system using a bio-medically engineered solution, stem cells or whatever else may crop up between now and then.
Julie is a driven individual. The fact is, she doesn't have most of the prerequisites necessary for the Capstone Engineering program. The head of the department though, is the one that recommended her for the program. It's very competitive, but she's got a couple of pluses on her side so there's a very real possibility that she'll get in.
All of my kids saw what happened to their mother. Even more telling to me though, is that at some point or another, every one of them commented on what it did to their father. I'm extremely proud of Julie but I'm also rather impressed by how each of the others have managed to come to terms with the situation. Honestly, I'm honored to be the father of these four kids.
Dick
Julie is a driven individual. The fact is, she doesn't have most of the prerequisites necessary for the Capstone Engineering program. The head of the department though, is the one that recommended her for the program. It's very competitive, but she's got a couple of pluses on her side so there's a very real possibility that she'll get in.
All of my kids saw what happened to their mother. Even more telling to me though, is that at some point or another, every one of them commented on what it did to their father. I'm extremely proud of Julie but I'm also rather impressed by how each of the others have managed to come to terms with the situation. Honestly, I'm honored to be the father of these four kids.
Dick