I just wanted to share how proud I am of my amazing wife! On May 11th 2007 she graduated with her PhD in Chemistry! I have no idea how she was able to put up with 5 years of grad school, do research, write a dissertation on her research, and then defend it in front of 5 other doctors in chemistry. I am truly awestruck. She has amazing dedication and a very hard work ethic. She is incapable of giving up, even when up against the most difficult of challenges. And she did have many challenges during her career as a grad student, some of them very great. One of the HUGE ones was after developing a new chemical and doing more research on it for over a year, she discovered that the chemical wasn't actually what they thought it was and she had lost all that time spent on researching with it. She amazingly recovered from that blow only to be hit hard by another one. Her advisor's husband got a new job for the Northwest Renewable Energy Lab, so they had to move to Washington state!.... Which meant that Kendra was pressured to finish up her degree faster than she would have (it normally takes 6 years) and her advisor was thousands of miles away, not very convenient. Kendra was able to carry on in spite of this blow to her productivity and finish her degree a year early!
I did get to go to her defense and watch and support her. Her thesis was on something about Synthesizing Nickel(I) and Nickel(II) Diphosphines... whatever that means. Actually, I did understand a fraction of her dissertation because she practiced her defense for me several times. I was very impressed that she had any clue what she was talking about though. Most of it was a different language to me. She had lots of impressive diagrams of molecules as well. AND she didn't seem nervous at all while she was presenting. She did a very professional and excellent job of presenting her defense. She also handled the questions that I got to watch with grace and class.
Well, as you can tell, I am very proud of my wife. I also think it is very cool that I get to call her doctor now. I think she might be the first doctor in both of our families! I better go get my PhD now so she doesn't show me up... actually, I kinda like being out-ranked and out-educated by my spouse. :-)
Praise God for giving me such a smart wife and for helping her to get through her grad school experience successfully.
I did get to go to her defense and watch and support her. Her thesis was on something about Synthesizing Nickel(I) and Nickel(II) Diphosphines... whatever that means. Actually, I did understand a fraction of her dissertation because she practiced her defense for me several times. I was very impressed that she had any clue what she was talking about though. Most of it was a different language to me. She had lots of impressive diagrams of molecules as well. AND she didn't seem nervous at all while she was presenting. She did a very professional and excellent job of presenting her defense. She also handled the questions that I got to watch with grace and class.
Well, as you can tell, I am very proud of my wife. I also think it is very cool that I get to call her doctor now. I think she might be the first doctor in both of our families! I better go get my PhD now so she doesn't show me up... actually, I kinda like being out-ranked and out-educated by my spouse. :-)
Praise God for giving me such a smart wife and for helping her to get through her grad school experience successfully.
