Major, screaming w00tage of the first order

[gridlore]

madelineusher graduated from high school last night.

She graduated near the top of her class at an elite school, garnering two awards for academic excellence. She was featured in an LA Times ad touting the top achievers at this school.

Among the schools she was accepted at: Cornell, UC Berkeley, UCLA. All offered some level of scholarship. (That's the part of the list my mom could remember, there were more schools on that list. A lot more)

I'm afraid to see what her SATs were.

Oh, the best part?

She's 16 years old. She skipped eighth grade. she is going to take over the world.

Congrats, Norster! Now the real fun begins!!! Penguin dances for you and all your fellow grads!

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[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

I am not surprised, after all she is your niece and she seems to take after her uncle in some respects.

Way to go for her!

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Heh. I dropped out of high school and the only reason I have a diploma is my mom refused to let me leave home without one.

I was never good at school. I learn on my own, in my own time. Nori soaks it up like a sponge. She takes after her parents in that regard.

I will take credit for her fascination with edged weapons.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

I think she has your stubbornness in pursuit of a goal.

Ground Forces is a fine body of work, in a different school environment you might have had different results.

Didn't you also finish sniper school?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

That was fun. Even the classroom stuff. Algebra? Not so much fun.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

I need to expand on that a little. A big difference in all my Army training was that classroom work was usually followed by a block of hands-on training using the same concepts. so, after learning how to fill out a range card in the classroom in the morning, we'd spend out afternoon actually doing it. That immediate application of the skill in a "real" setting made the difference.

Math is nigh-impossible for me to grok, but I've managed to learn a little by doing world design and other gaming stuff. Again, the application of the skill makes all the difference to me.

[fimbrethil.livejournal.com]

WOOT!

[claire.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to her! I hope she gets to do what she loves now. Whatever that is.

(One of the guys I graduated top of my school with was 16 when he graduated. It made me feel positively ancient at 17 ;)

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Well, she starts Soka University of America (http://www.soka.edu/) later this summer, and wants to study communications/linguistics. She already speaks pretty fluent Japanese, so she's on the right track.