Kudos all to her. Obviously my wife and I are proud parents, but the big deal is that she got to pursue her interests without going into debt. How often does that happen to people these days? You keep hearing stories about students graduating with 100s of k$ in debt. Some of my daughter's PhD cohort had college prof parents going into debt to pay for MIT/WHOI Grad tuition. I got off very lightly, just had to subsidise a hatchback she used to move mass specs between the WHOI labs and research ships. -)

Fewer people use cash these days, but I joke that I keep a picture of my daughter's boat in my wallet. She is one of the Scientists who had to postpone flying up to the Arctic this summer because the CCG Amundsen had to divert to help out fishermen. The Amundsen is the Ship on the cdn $50 bill.
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"Were your parents present during your childhood?"
from the daughter of a female WHOI prof to a female grad student doing childcare fill in while the Prof and hubby were at a conference.