Safe at Home

Home is where your next opportunity takes you

I have two children who will be graduating from college in May.   Both are about to undertake another big life transition, leaving their university life and entering a world filled with uncertainty.   Not just the uncertainty of major labor protests all over the globe, tsunamis, nuclear reactor meltdowns, but the much more in your face uncertainty of losing structure in their life.   University classes, work opportunites provided by their academic environment, in one case, even their living quarters. Facing this kind of stuff can be scary and unnerving.

This time of life also offers boundless opportunity.

One kid is pondering whether she should stay in Tallahassee and pursue work, or if she should do missionary work in the United States, or if she should think about doing volunteer in Brazil, or elsewhere in Central/South America.   The beauty of this moment in her life is that she has the opportunity to make these choices.    Deciding this kind of stuff can be scary and unnerving.   It is also wonderful.  And, she is always welcome to come sleep on the floor in our home office until she decides where she alnds next!

The other kid was nervous, until he got the following in the mail a couple of weeks ago.

Congratulations on admission to the PhD program in Political Science at  the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs!  Your excellent credentials have also earned you the offer of a Graduate Assistantship for 2011-12.  This package consists of a $****** stipend for the academic year, full tuition support in the form of 24 tuition credits (for use in the fall, spring and summer terms), and health insurance.  This package is renewable in subsequent years (contingent upon satisfactory progress in the program).  Most students receive funding for four years in the form of a Teaching Assistantship, a Research Assistantship, or a Dissertation Writing Fellowship.  Depending on our future resources, there is the possibility of funding beyond the fourth year as well.

Home is where you hang your hat (sometimes)

The good news is, they both have a place where they can be safe at home AND great life opportiunities lined up in front of them.  

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