| Blogs > 1ClassyLady > U r responsible for ur life |
|
An exceptional My has very outstanding academic achievements since her childhood. She has been always on the top #1 of the class, the whole grade in her schools, on many subjects, i.e. spelling bee, mathematics, ..... etc. She skipped a grade in elementary school. She got perfect scores of 1600 on both SAT I & II during high school. She received formal letters from U.S. President, George W. Bush and Secretary of Dept. of Education in 2005 to congratulate her and gave her U.S. Presidential scholarship and U.S. Merit scholarship. She also got all UC (University of California) full scholarship (free tuition). I only paid her dormitory and rent during those years for her double majors in Psychology and Neurobiology degrees from UCI (Univ. of Calif. Irvine). She is attending Wayne State University, School of Medicine in Detroit, MI where is in a very cold winter (polar vortex) this year. I am very proud of her. She has saved me a lot of money for her tuition. Do you know the tuition for medical school cost $70,000 a year? The medical school started in August 2013 and she got scholarship, so she doesn't need to borrow "student loan" from Dept. of Education for her tuition. I paid apartment for her lodging and gave her allowance monthly for her food, groceries, and gasoline. She applied "student loan" and prepared to pay back when she become a MD, but to our surprise Wayne State Univ. granted her scholarship, so she doesn't need to use "student loan". When she emailed me that she got scholarship and student loan balance is zero, interest paid is zero, I was surprised. I am lucky to have an exceptional . Incidentally, my donated her blood to Red Cross regularly and donated her hair to Cancer society. Honesty is the best policy. |
|||
|
Every teenager is rebellious. My daughter and son have had rebellion during that period of time. My daughter has a boyfriend since high school senior till now for 11 years. The only bf she has. She sometimes stayed at bf house slept on sofa. My house is just 4 miles away, but she didn't come home to sleep. I said something to my daughter, she even stayed more nights. I guess it is "hormone". Bf is more important than Mommy. My daughter is very busy with job, bf, and less time for me. I missed the time when she was a little girl, she followed me around the house, helped me to take care her little brother (my son is 2 yrs younger). Most of the time, I communicate her by calling her cellular phone. She came home late and fix my computer problems for hours in my room when I was sleepy. That is the way of life. C'est la vie !! Honesty is the best policy.
| ||
|
I like when mother and daughter communicate and become good companions. I see a lot of women who do not grasp what their mother is to them, until they have kids of their own, then they began to really think back and appreciate their mothers. It's great when they can learn it even before they have kids of their own. I also think a lot of women who have good relations with family are more careful not to get jaded by the things in the world. Some, who may have the lack of parents or trouble with parents, sometimes, unfortunately go through very challenging time before they become settled and stable to build and maintain relationships. I think it equally applies to men, with father, because they want to do well for their fathers regards. but women too need their fathers, it helps them know how to accept appreciation from the males in their lives as well as many other things which comes through the relationships with their fathers.
| ||
|
To woaini1947: Congrats on your granddaughter. She has excellent accomplishment at UCI. What she want to be for her future? My daughter actually got accepted from UC Berkeley for her undergraduate, but her boyfriend got UCI, so my daughter went to UCI instead of Berkeley. Besides, Irvine is closer to home than Berkeley. After graduation from UCI, my daughter spent a year to apply 21 universities, medical schools. Each application range from $125 to $250. She went to interviews by professors. She also got a job worked at a local SAT tutoring school as a receptionist/ teacher-aid for a year. She didn't look for job, but she is famous in high school, so the employer asked her to work there (with pay). She also volunteer (on off days) worked for "Red-Cross" and "Doctors without Boarders" and local hospital (without pay). So, when she received couple letters for exchange student to Europe, she had to turn down. She fixed my computer problems, taught me how to use Nexus 7 tablet computer and update my GPS maps. I really appreciate her for that. Honesty is the best policy.
| ||
|
some kids have a inspired interest in various things. Young people can learn anything, that have that natural ability to do so. It is important for kids to find what interest them and invest themselves. I wish, they'd lock up these criminals who runs these Universities, Most of these University Programs, especially when it comes to medicine, get 100's upon 100's of millions in Government Grant Money every year. There is no reason a students tuition should be so high. It's pure robbery. I'd like to see the government withdraw some of the grant funds, and make the schools use the Money they charge these students, instead of lining their own pockets with it. Many Professors don't even want to go in the classroom, they want their aids and their under-study to do everything. because the more praise and labels the professors get, the less they want to do, other than wield power and act like dictators. The people at the top of the Medical Profession, block many new techniques and many new and innovative things from being introduced. they are like many other things, "they don't want anything new to come along", unless they can claim credit for it. I think one of the best things that has happen in the last few years, is Google's Policy and Facebook's Policy and other tech companies, on hiring people. They respect the people as individuals, their skills and their willingness to learn; which is self inspired within the individuals. Some of these companies don't want people whom some of these professors have either brainwashed or subdued their natural abilities or expect the students to worship and praise them just because they call themselves professors. I hope you daughter can steer clear o those kind of professor and find people who have a true passion to help students learn, and respect the students and not expect the students to submit with some patronizing demeanor unto the ego of the professor. I hope your daughter can keep touch with her natural abilities and not let these egomaniac at these big name universities diminish her spirit and her ability.
| ||
|
Let me tell you that I have accidentally introduced "Reader's Digest" to my daughter when she was 6 or 7 years old. My ex is a dentist, so he brought back "Reader's Digest" home. One day I was waiting for water to boil when cooking dinner, I picked-up a "Reader's Digest" and read the "Jokes" and laughed. My daughter came to ask me what I laugh about. I told her those pages are "jokes" and funny, she also can read it. So, she did. A few months past, my ex told her to read all other articles but NOT just those jokes. So, she did. Her vocabularies improved tremendously ever since. She read page to page every month and learned a lot of knowledge. Nobody pushed her to read or study. She read "Reader's Digest" at her pleasure. Amazing that "Reader's Digest" transformed my daughter. When I had worked for Kaiser hospital pharmacy, one pharmacy tech asked me how I teach my daughter to be so smart. I told her "Reader's Digest". So that tech subscribed "Reader's Digest" and told her daughter to read. Unfortunately, her daughter was NOT interested to read, it didn't work. Honesty is the best policy.
|
