MY Melissa is off to UNIVERSITY...

[moosmom]

Congrats from across the ocean, Carole! Your whole post is BEAMING with pride!!!

Good luck, Melissa!! Enjoy adulthood!! We're proud of you!

[lizbud]

Congratulations to Melissa. Sounds lke a very bright girl with a great
attitude & great future. I know you must be so proud of her.

[Miss Z]

My congratulations to Melissa. She is lucky that university is so close! I've just returned to my university residence and 'home' seems very far away again... hehe.

How wonderful that she can get a work placement in her second year, and I do hear you on employers not always being satisfied with 'just' a good degree. I'm sure it will stand her in really good stead for her future.

Best of luck to her and I hope she really enjoys university life!

[phesina]

CONGRATULATIONS, Melissa! Well done!

[Lilith Cherry]

Well done Melissa! We are all proud of you,

[carole]

thanks from me and on behalf of Melissa, i don't know who is more excited me or Melissa lol.

She is keen to find a cure for these awful diseases we still have,would be amazing if she did, but time will tell, let us hope she does actually enjoy this degree, she can change to another if necessary.

Yes Miss Z, we are so fortunate, to live so close, it has it's pitfalls though, too many parties and antics in my area, ok when you are young, but not so tolerable at our age lol, it took some time for her to actually be persuaded to go to the Waikato University, she was looking at the bottom of NZ at one stage, and auckland which is two hours away, but much more expensive to live,it seemed such a shame to have it on your back doorstep and not take advantage, common sense in the end prevailed.

This degree was not her first choice really, but i think she is more than happy with it now, and it seems to be probably the only one with the paid work experience, which in my book is a real added plus.

yes fingers crossed she enjoys her university life, the hours are pretty good, though, better than school, so that is another plus.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Wow, good job to Melissa! That is great news.

[Suki Wingy]

Congratulations to Melissa and I think it's good that she picked one so close to home. I'm not at school but I am working four hours away from home right now and I've just come back home for two days but the traveling gets a little tiring as well as stressful on my car, which in turn stresses me out!

I'm sure she will enjoy herself and getting her degree and work experience will be very rewarding. Sometimes I wish I would have stuck with university.