Wow……proud mumma moment ahead…..

[Bron357]

So I hear “maniacal” laughter from DD and go to investigate.
DD who is second year in her Medical Research degree had applied for a three research internships. It’s essential to get lab experience and supervision from a Professor if you want to succeed in Research. Highly competitive too. So we were absolutely delighted for her to be short listed for one and then thrilled for DD to be successful in the Uni of NSW one which as it turned out was also a scholarship.
It was such an important morale booster for DD as her final year of high school was disastrous and her final marks unimpressive so the “mean girls” loved rubbing in that DD ”just scrapped into the course” which of course was true.
The third internship, the “pie in the sky” one, the one with University of Melbourne (that’s an interstate University) offered by the International AMGen Scholars Program, which had hundreds of applications from the Oceanic region, sent DD an email.
Yup.
She was successful.
Now she doesn’t know what to choose!
I hope those mean girls go absolutely green when they hear the news!

 

[Matata]

Congrats Mama, you have every right to be proud. I hope whichever option your DD chooses brings her the knowledge and experience she desires and that she enjoys the research.

 

[lulu_ma]

Congrats to your daughter! Success/happiness is the best revenge!

 

[ItsMainelyYou]

Ha, the best kind! Take that, you snooty britches
She gets the fist pump and the fireworks from me!
Good for her!

 

[MamaBee]

Congratulations to your daughter!!! I hope those mean girls go green with envy!!!

 

[TooPatient]

That is wonderful!!! Congratulations to her and to you for raising such a determined young woman. I hope whichever path she chooses brings her great happiness!

 

[Karl_K]

wow awesome!!!

 

[oncrutchesrightnow]

Yay!!!

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

F U meal girls
well done DD

 

[Tartansparkles]

Delighted for you and DD; your news has added a little hop into my own step

 

[Ally T]

This is HUGE!! Well done to your DD on this amazing news!

 

[MissGotRocks]

Amazing - congrats to her and tell her to keep peddling and never look back! (Especially at the mean girls - lol!)

 

[Sparkles88]

That’s amazing news @Bron357 , well done and huge congratulations to your DD!

 

[MamaBear]

Fantastic!!! Congrats!!

 

[tyty333]

Great news for your DD as well as the proud mama!

 

[Bron357]

O o o o mean girl update!
Its just like in the movies ha ha.
Background, the degree course my daughter chose is full of all the kids who missed out on getting into Medicine from their HSC. Medicine here now is a double degree and the Medical Science degree can count as the first part and depending on marks, there’s the opportunity of switching across to Medicine.
DD has no interest in doing Medicine, she wants to do research. Because “the other girls aka mean girls” knew DD didn’t get a really high ATAR they turned their backs on her ie you can’t help me get where I want so pi@@ off! So when it came to group work, study groups etc they just ignored her and so DD has just been quietly working away the past 2 years with her little “daggy group”.
so DD gets a message..(this is from group leader mean girls!)
”Wow, huge congrats on getting the scholarship”
Love DD, she messages her back “which one?”
“Oh, huh, you got two? seriously wow, that’s amazing. Yeah, a few people (her included apparently) also applied so it’s fantastic you got it”
Behind the scenes the mean girls had apparently asked another girl, part of the daggy group, what DDs WAM (weighted average mark) was because the two mean girls who applied unsuccessfully had WAMs of 81 and 85. DDs WAM is 92.
That information came as quite a suprise apparently.
Continuing the chat, Group leader Mean girl then asks DD
”So, have you decided what major you’re doing next year (final year for undergraduates) ?
Third year is the crucial year, marks wise, for those who hope to transfer across to Medicine because it’s an offer based on WAM - the higher the better!
DD is actually doing a double major ”Pathology and Microbiology“.
”Great, I’m actually doing Pathology, maybe we’ll be in the same classes? We can do group work together and all that.
Hmmmmmm.

 

[diamondyes]

Sounds like she has an amazing mum! Congrats to her!

 

[ItsMainelyYou]

I'm cackling! Cackling! It's delicious. She can give them the sweetest sloth gif in response. Just this, nothing else.

 

[ringo865]

Congrats Bron and to your daughter, as well. I am sure it is a proud moment for you both!

 

[Dandi]

This is so, super, amazingly awesome!!! I've loved every word of this thread!! You and your DD rock!

PS @Bron357 - if you ever accompany her down here to Melbourne Uni, we need to do lunch!

 

[Bron357]

This is so, super, amazingly awesome!!! I've loved every word of this thread!! You and your DD rock!

PS @Bron357 - if you ever accompany her down here to Melbourne Uni, we need to do lunch!

Might have to take you up on that ha ha.
DD is still in shock I think.
Its terrible her self esteem is so low (it’s very complicated - she’s obviously on the Spectrum). She applied, very reluctantly, for these internships (and not even realising they were scholarships!) because she thought “what’s the point, my ATAR is bad and I havent sat Gamsat and have no work experience. I have no chance against the others”.
Well she was wrong there!
She then had the awkward and high anxiety inducing issue of informing her supervisor (of the scholarship she accepted) that she had been offered the International Amgen one. I told her to phrase it more as a question because DD also needs this supervisor for her research project next year and doesn’t want to “shoot herself in the foot”. The supervisor was very pleased DD referred to her and told her “take this golden opportunity and run with it and of course I’ll still supervise your research project”.
Win win.

 

[qubitasaurus]

Congratulations, thats an amazing outcome. Especially given so much of the last 2 years has been very remote and personal study focused. Looking forward to seeing her thrive.

 

[mom2dolls]

Congratulations!!! Outstanding for her and the mean girls can suck it!

 

[doberman]

Very wonderful! All the best to your daughter.