...and he would have had to major in Physics.
I'm not sure why my son applied there to be honest. We did go to a SUNY open house event held in New Jersey where all the SUNY Universities had a table. Maybe someone talked him into applying there.
If I recall I think he applied to seven or eight schools and was accepted at all of them, but I knew which one he really wanted, which I didn't think I could afford, until they forked over big bucks.
They took him under their wings there.
I was telling him that I expected him to get a job over the summers, thinking along the lines of working at an ice cream shop, a pizza joint or something like that.
He did get summer jobs but not at an ice cream shop or a pizza joint.
After his Freshman year they sent him to France on an NSF grant to study specialized types of ceramics; for his Sophomore year, he interned at Oak Ridge National Lab working in the neutron spallation facility; his Junior year summer, Covid time he was supposed to go to the UK on an NSF grant for some data analysis work, but instead worked remotely in his childhood bedroom on the project. When he graduated his University offered him a one year scholarship for a Masters in which he ended up getting a stipend. He went right to graduate school for his nuclear engineering Ph.D where they gave him a generous stipend with no requirements for being a TA, although they kicked him extra money to grade exams.
His mother and I were very annoyed by all of this, because we thought the little brat should know something about about disappointment and suffering and struggle. He doesn't, but he visited us at Christmas and we were very pleased with what a fine young man he has become. He's a smart little bastard as well, and we're very proud of him as we are of his brother, who knows all about suffering, more than I would have liked, but triumphed anyway.
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