| that's cool, JLA. My nephew, the oldest, is a philospher/king sort, but niece #1 is a scientist off to college next year. She's deciding between the CDC and the FBI. lol. Niece #2 at 15 had decided on being a math teacher. #1, as a jr. in h.s. was a quest lecturer in science at jr. highs. It does amaze. I like to send them articles on the lapse in science and math in this country. It makes me all the more proud of them. But their father is a math whiz. And so is my sister. She was whizzing thru Calc 2 while I was trying my hand at algebra for the second year. It took me 3 to finish it. But she leans toward social science, so the kids don't really know what a whiz she was. As to science, and Rambi's frog, I got a C in biology, my only science class. I aced the tests (short term retention from reading, then the data dump) and got F's on all the labs, since I wouldn't do them. My nephew, as a teen, was trying to explain the physics of doing something with a quitar string to me. "uhm, can we talk poetry now, newphew?" gotta love 'em. That is great about your son. Nephew will be in D.C soon for a two month internship at the capital. Maybe he will pass your way, if I remember right that you are around there? |
