Showing posts with label graduate school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graduate school. Show all posts

Friday, August 28, 2015

Brenna's home away from home and her home away from home away from home!

Brenna was finally able to move all the way into her house (her home away from home, I still consider us her real home).  She went to town decorating and making it her own!  She's just like her mother in that she likes to make her own special space!  She's definitely a nester! The room is actually pretty small, but she's managed to get all her stuff into it and made it quite a reflection of herself.  She's so much like me in that she wants/needs to surround herself with all the things she loves.  Really like mother, like daughter!




I'm very proud of her for doing this all by herself!  When we left, she was still in the hotel, so she had to get all her stuff into the room by herself.  She also had to put the bookcases together all on her own.  She's turned quite self-suffcient!  What a girl!
She also has her own office now at work (her home away from home away from home).  She shares it with 3 other graduate students.  But again making it her own space.


I love the little bats, flying around her walls.  I sound like a broken record, but she's so damn cute and I'm so darn proud of her!  

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

It's Bragging time...Brenna Hyzy version

So my precious baby girl, the same girl who once took a zero in Spanish, because she didn't know which basket to put her homework in, the same girl who was thrilled when she got a B, who was happy to be "average" if it meant it didn't interfere with her social life.  The same girl who refused to take her Algebra book to class with her because it was "too heavy."  This girl has decided she's going to graduate school, she's taken the GRE and she's been accepted to the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point!
She's been working with her advisor at Radford and the man she worked for this summer at Virginia Tech and they both suggested this program and actually they spoke with the director.  Apparently he was so impressed with Brenna and her work and skills that they pretty much created this graduate program for her and her skill set!  That's pretty freaking amazing if you ask me!  She will work as a TA and they will be giving her a yearly stipend which should help pay for a good portion of her tuition and living expenses.  I mean Duh!  No brainer!   She didn't want to do it at first, I think she's a little worried about about being pigeon-holed with bats which probably aren't her first choice.  But for now, it's what she knows and what she's good at and what they want her for, so she's going with it.  She'll be 24 and have a masters degree and can do whatever she wants.  I'm very excited and very proud, but I'm also just a tiny, toosh sad.  She's going all the way to Wisconsin, that's a long way away! :o(   AND she has to go up in May, right after graduation... so we don't even get to hang out over the summer. :o(  She and John are going to go up in May and make sure they get everything settled and then Zack and I will road trip up and visit later in the summer.  Its going to be hard to have her so far away.  I like hanging out with her, we have fun together and now she's going to be far, far away!   I don't like my babies growing up and away!