Am feeling v proud, daughter in Uni

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2nd year, chemistry, she just got her results, got a first, little madam sometimes but by god she's clever!!
stu
 
Had 3 kids all go through Uni. You don't get a first by just being clever, you have to work hard as well. Presumeably a 3 year course so this time next year you will be going to the graduation. Congratulations.
 
Well done to her! Remembering my own Chemistry lessons she must be very clever. My own daughter puts me to shame, she is fluent in 4 languages!
 
Yes congrats to you both, one of mine is anaval architect and the other after doing his PhD is now a lecturer so I know what it feals like.

Enjoy.
 
yeah a first takes work that's for sure (wish I had done it back when I was there). congrats to your daughter and hope she keeps it up!
 
How gratifying for daughter & proud Dad.

Takes after her mother? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

But congratulations to all of you.

Just prhaps another year of wallet-bashing to go?
 
Branded 'unteachable' at Junior school.

Failed Birmingham's 'Selective Entry' - 11 Plus test.

Got a 'House point' at Secondary school for scoring a goal - when the ball bounced off him into the goal mouth!

Woke up to 6th form life.

Graduated from Cambridge,

Gained a PhD in Computer Science. (And I still haven't a clue what his thesis was about! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif)

Now earns more in a month than my annual Pension!

Makes me a life member of the 'Proud Dad's Club'

Welcome Aboard, and well done!
 
my oldest got a 2-1...years ago. Now earning enough to buy a new benny every year - but prefers property (and fairlines) (never mind). Middle girl got a first, has a job that stretches and pays the bills. Youngest is a mum, with dad on board, already. Bless them all, there is progress. Lucky old us.
 
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2nd year, chemistry, she just got her results, got a first, little madam sometimes but by god she's clever!!
stu

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I can appreciate the feeling. My daughter got her results yesterday - reading Natural Sciences at Bath - only first year results so they don't count as such but she needed at least 55% so she could qualify for 3rd year work placement. When asked what % she just said over 80!

I look at the stuff she does and just glaze over /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Uses such terms as organic and inorganic chemistry and words with "ology" in them.
 
What ever happened to proper eddyfication? One of mine did geography at Durham. And one of her pieces of field work was on customers' behaviour in sports bars! What about rivers and mountains and capital cities and prime agricultural outputs, then? I mean, what's the point of knowing men shout "gettemoff" when Serena Williams is on telly, if you don't know where the head waters of the Limpopo are?
 
Well done Stu and daughter !!

My son just got a 2.1 ('honours' what ever that means)....Now he is off driving a Fiat Panda to Ulanbaata...left last saturday and to be honest did'nt expect him to have made Dover !

However just got an SMS from Kiev ... Glad all that last minute Panda fettling I did whilse I should have been sailing has paid off..

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Regds Nick
 
Congratulations indeed. My daughter is doing chemistry A level and its a stinker. A mere pass would keep me happy as its more than I ever managed.

My brothers daughter got a first in Jewellery design from Birmingham last year. Its the first 'first' ever in our family so I wrote her a strongly worded letter telling her how disappointed I was that she had felt the need to show up the rest of us as the lazy dunderheads that we are. Thankfully she saw the joke. She is now designing for 'Accessorise' or whatever they call themselves.

Spare a thought then for the lesser student like my son who is studying Illustration at Loughborough and finding it pretty hard going as the work load seems relentless. I wish I had a magic pill to give him a bit more self confidence as thats half the problem I suspect. He has to re-do a project over the summer, and frankly he could have done with a complete break to recharge his batteries a bit, so I feel quite sorry for him.

Ho hum, thats life.
Tim
 
It does hack me off to read Disgusted-of-Tunbridge-Wells type comments about how easy kids have it these days and how qualifications have been dumbed down. Essentially if a child is going to go to university, they will have important examinations every year from GCSE through to finishing their uni course - six or seven years. And with in-term assessments as well that's 6 or 7 years of sustained effort. Poor blighters - at least I got to doss around a bit during lower sixth.
 
Ken. You have hit the nail on the head. The continuous exam/assessment culture with no respite is terribly demotivating and dispiriting. Kids are fed up with education by the time they get to Uni. I have a bright enough daughter of 17 and its been quite difficult to keep her motivated. She is doing Chemistry, Biology, Psychology and Business Studies at A level. She is no genius though and will only get through by hard work and with a bit of luck in the exams.

What with my son having a few difficulties and my daughter heading into her final school year I can't pretend that it is not having an effect on our home life. We are trying to keep them in a positive state of mind about life/education and all the rest..its me and the missus who are getting depressed.

Life is not all about education, but you would like your kids to do as well as they are capable if only because qualifications give you better choices in life.

Tim
 
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