E got into FIT for next year

[conuly]

In the Fashion Design program, which is supposed to be hard to get into though, to her annoyance, none of us expected her not to get in at all. It's a bit hard for us to get too excited.

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Comments

[crystalpyramid]

Wow that's exciting! Congrats to E!

And I'm surprised NIF is finally making progress. I grew up in Rochester where our local laser lab told us on field trips that fusion energy was only 30 years away. It would be strange if they were actually approximately right...

[conuly]

How long were they saying that?

[crystalpyramid]

Talking to older physicists, I think it's been "30 years away" for a long while but my field trip was probably around the year 2000.

[conuly]

(Also, to be clear, we all thought she was stressing out a little too much about her portfolio. We're happy, but I think she's the only one who is excited. I don't know the right amount of boasting, but I am not sure too many other people are as brilliant as she is at what she likes to do.)

[shadowkat]

Ah, I see, she's brilliant, but doesn't appear to know it. Reminds me of my niece.