[Magdalen] First day of school.

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 02:54:24 UTC 2015


Does Ev's school allow him to take community college courses concomitantly
with his high school courses? An awful lot of kids are doing that now.

On Wednesday, August 5, 2015, M J [Mike] Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> >>>Has he given any thought to what he wants to do after this?<<<
>
> Some.  But with no rush from me or his mother.  I worked pretty fast
> getting settled into gov't work right after college, but that was mainly in
> response to my mother's disappointment at my "wasting" my English degree.
> Add to that the pressure to "get a desk job, so you won't have to bust your
> ass like your father", and my future was more or less set, if not to happen
> swiftly necessarily, but it did anyway.  But no one in my family ever
> expected I'd end up in "water resources".
>
> Everett sees himself in some career involving computers generally and
> gaming particularly.  He's self-taught to the point of amazement to me.
> The things he does on, in, and with his computer, ... nowhere near my
> relatively static state of merely keeping my fingers crossed mine doesn't
> hit the skids.  He sees at least some community college, most likely sooner
> than later, and if the U.S. doesn't become the next Holland or Norway in
> terms of basically permanent liberal gov't (like I tell him it *could*
> become in his lifetime) relatively soon, he still insists he wants to
> ex-pat to Canada.  I tell him to wait till I'm a bit past ability to retire
> (just past the mark in June), and maybe I'll go with him.
>


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