Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There is a lot of truth to that. As the first college kid in the family, I totally chose my own destiny and career path (which I can't explain to them, it's tough to explain writing embedded compilers to folks who hardly speak English!) and my wife and I try hard not to push our kidz too hard. Fortunately (!) neither of our kidz is a genius type in math or music or any of the traditional things that Asians suppose to excel in.... It's a difficult fine line to tread as a parent. At 07:03 AM 2/3/2005, B. D. Colen wrote: >... there are a hell of allot of kids at MIT on >the undergrad level who are their because their parents have pushed very >hard for them to be there. I find this especially true with the Asian >and South Asian kids, some of whom have told me flat out that not only >were they 'told' to go to MIT, they are 'told' by their fathers what to >major in - and they often hate their majors. // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)