Princeton here I come!

Em and I were talking this morning while she was getting ready for school. She wanted to know if UNI was a good school. I told her it was very good especially if you wanted to be a teacher or wanted to major in actuarial sciences like her sister is doing. I then told her that Allison chose it over Princeton even though Princeton called wanting her to come there. She was flabbergasted. She couldn't believe that Allison chose UNI over Princeton. After all, Princeton is kind of like Yale! (Her words.) WOW! Now Em wants to go to either Princeton or Yale when she graduates from high school in 2016. I told her that if she really wants to go to one of those schools then she needs to turn in all of her homework from now on and not keep it in her folder like she tends to do. I also told her she needs to buckle down and pay attention in school at ALL times not just when it interests her AND she has to strive to get A's in all of her classes. She's decided that from now on she can do all of the above. LOL. It's not that I doubt that she can do these things but her attention span at times is a bit sketchy. I applaud her for having the ambition to want to go to an Ivy league school. I will do what I can to help her achieve her goal but ultimately it is up to her to make it happen. I will be happy with whatever she chooses to do with her life as long as it is what she truly wants to do AND it makes her happy. I didn't find my true calling until I was 43 but I did find it! :)