Been Out Of Town + Congrats to Ms. Jessie

6 April 2004

I apologize for leaving town without warning (you do care, don’t you?), but I went up to Philadelphia for the weekend, got back late Monday, and still haven’t caught up with email and other items.

The occasion was one last set of discussions with daughter Jessie about her graduate school decision. Those of you who have been here from the beginning will recall that Jessie orginally provoked me into starting Discriminations with promises of posting and additional help 
 and then she disappeared into the woodwork of her work at Bryn Mawr, from which she’s about to graduate.

(Jessie, if you’re reading this, stop, because it’ll make you blush.) Anyway, she was accepted into a whole bunch of the top Ph.D. programs in Applied Physics (MIT, Harvard, Cornell, UCLA, Caltech, and Stanford), and she has just decided to attend Caltech.

What she’s been doing all year wasn’t blogging, but it obviously hasn’t been bad.

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  1. Luke Lea April 6, 2004 at 10:19 pm | | Reply

    Wow!

  2. Luke Lea April 6, 2004 at 10:19 pm | | Reply

    Wow! You oughtta be proud.

  3. Private Person April 6, 2004 at 11:34 pm | | Reply

    Based on everything I’ve seen, you have great reason to be proud of your daughter. I’m referring to her record so far.

    BUT 


    Although I’m sure you have probably never heard about something called “affirmative action”, it must have at least crossed your mind that saying

    “my daughter was accepted to graduate school in physics at MIT and Harvard and Caltech”

    just doesn’t sound as good as saying

    “my son was accepted to graduate school in physics at MIT and Harvard and Caltech”.

  4. Jennifer Gratz April 6, 2004 at 11:58 pm | | Reply

    John,

    I’m a “lurker” on your blog, but wanted to speak up and say Congratulations to you and Jessie.

    Good luck with the Ph.D. program Jessie.

    Jen Gratz

  5. Katge April 7, 2004 at 10:31 am | | Reply

    Great choice-Pasadena is beautiful, the campus is great and she’ll be very popular!

  6. Sarah April 7, 2004 at 1:42 pm | | Reply

    Jessie, congratulations on your success so far and best of luck in the future. Caltech is terrific.

    Also nice work in getting John to start a blog with “help” from you. He does a great job and is always interesting and informative.

  7. Richard Nieporent April 8, 2004 at 12:34 am | | Reply

    John, I would think by now that you would know never to believe your children when they say that they will help. :-)

    Congratulations to Jessie on her acceptance to all of the top physics schools. Caltech is a great choice, but she could not go wrong with any of them.

  8. Gyp April 8, 2004 at 8:49 pm | | Reply

    Congratulations, Jessie!

    All of us miss you, you know-your friends from Japan.

    You’d better make us proud!

    😉

  9. Jessie April 10, 2004 at 12:00 pm | | Reply

    Yes, I know I’ve been remiss in my blogging duties
 but really, you don’t want to hear from me when you can hear from my dad! He’s got much more to say.

    Thanks, you all! I think I’ll have fun there, too.

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