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David Goodstein "States of Matter"
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"Now it is our turn....
Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously."

Just maybe.
And yes it is a real book.
 
Great introduction - something to get an apathetic college-aged student engaged!

On a more serious note, per Wikipedia, bipolar disorder and Depression were suffered by each, respectively.

Makes us remember some of the mental health discussions elsewhere on this website.
 
Light reading for this little girl. BS in Biomedical Engineering. Summa Cum Laude, Phi kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Pi Mu Epsilon. Academic Excellence In Engineering, Freshman Honors. But more importantly a really great person! My partner in LBC crime. Off to Texas A&M next week for her Masters Degree!
Regards
Paul
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apbos said:
Light reading for this little girl. BS in Biomedical Engineering. Summa Cum Laude, Phi kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Pi Mu Epsilon. Academic Excellence In Engineering, Freshman Honors. But more importantly a really great person! My partner in LBC crime. Off to Texas A&M next week for her Masters Degree!
Regards
Paul
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Congrats on your partner in crime getting a degree that will serve her well for a lifetime!
 
Thank you both! We are very proud of her. Both mom and dad are engineering illiterate. However her grandfather was a civil engineer. You can see a picture of him she carried with her on her graduation day.
 
Congratulations! That is an impressive set of honors. Biomedical engineering should be a great field. My daughter got a degree in Bioinformatics this year. Some sort of combination between biology and computer sci...
 
It's great to find something you're good at, she obviously is bright and has a talent for all that, and hopefully has a passion that lasts her whole life for it so where ever she ends up, it's never just a job. At least not most days...
 
To earn a degree in any field of engineering requires a level of self-discipline completely missing in my genome. Hearty congrats to her, and to you, Paul, for apparently instilling the interest and curiosity in her! 👍
 
Having gone through IT in college years ago and spent 40 years doing it, the most important part is how you learn, or just naturally know, how to think. Stuff like this requires a very structured way of thinking about the problems you're working on and if you can't properly reason your way through you won't make it. I used to tell people about computers that a squirrel can learn to write code, it's figuring out what to write that works and is efficient that's the hard part. So the fact that this young lady is at the top of her class doing this is quite an achievement.
 
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Having gone through IT in college years ago and spent 40 years doing it, the most important part is how you learn, or just naturally know, how to think.
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There's an "intuition factor" also in that mix. Just knowing how to "mechanically" solve a problem (your adage: "a squirrel can learn to write code") can delay an answer far longer than a spark of intuitive thinking will in many instances.

I'm betting this young woman has had a lifetime of examples at practical problem solving, integrated those into her own thought process.
 
Thank you again everyone! She is using the talents she was blessed with, but also is a very kind and compassionate young woman. We are all proud of our kids and regardless of their talents, abilities/disabilities, we hope they achieve their goals and have a happy life. We are fortunate that we could give her the resources she needed to thrive. We just hope everyone would help their kids achieve their talents. The world would be a better place.
Regads
 
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