Diplomas!

Tim got his paper in the mail. You know, the one that is pitifully small and insignificant-looking compared to the hours of blood sweat and tears that went into getting it? We're not sure if you call it a diploma or a degree, but it's on our wall whatever it is :D

Tim did the framing and the arranging. And he sweetly put up my piece of paper from FIVE YEARS AGO, too :D (He also did the artwork on the photo; it's a pic from New Years' Day that he did some neat little photoshopping on.)

In case I've never mentioned it, Tim's degree is in Software Engineering, mine is just a Bachelor of Science. I did the work to get a degree in Biology and a degree in Chemistry, and was told by some administrator at the school that I would indeed receive two papers since I received two degrees, but I only got one and it doesn't even say what it is. So disappointing.

I have hope for my education. I sometimes despair and think I've forgotten everything, but sometimes I get a chance to talk to someone about basic science and see how little they know about it, so even if I've forgotten everything Dr. Suggs taught me in Instrumental Analysis, I still know more about biology and chemistry than the average person. Is it bad that that makes me feel good?

Jack loves to check out "body books" (books about the human body) from the library, and go through them with me pointing to everything and asking me all about it. He loves to learn about how the body works. I did, too, when I was his age; if my education does nothing more than ignite my children's curiosity to learn about the way they work, it will be worth it :D I remember being fascinated by my mom's college physics book, and a book of hers that had pop-ups of the chambers of the heart, the chest cavity, the eye, the abdominal cavity, skeletal muscles, etc. I've always credited that book with my love of learning about anatomy, but seeing how much Jack loves learning it, I'm thinking it was inborn.

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