Your daughter made some great choices and she did the hard work to get ahead. Meanwhile you gave her awesome advice, and you gave her a chance to spread her wings. It's a win-win!

Congratulations to your daughter! 😁👍

She’s not taking the easy road. Of course you are proud. Well done you! Thanks for sharing the good news!

Kudos to your daughter and to her proud daddy

zoom in. Cool.

A degree in Chemistry will serve her well, either directly using her degree or in another field just demonstrating she was smart enough to achieve such a difficult degree! Go, daughter!

I'm beaming with pride on her behalf and I don't know either of you! But her intelligence and hard work are definitely paying off and creating a bright, rewarding future for her!

I regard it as a very satisfying career, one that serves humanity in subtle but essential ways and offers the highest level of intellectual satisfaction.

Congratulations all around. I wish your family every success in the world.

It reaches into so many areas. I have friends and family who have chemistry backgrounds that have found their spots in fashion merchandising, fire protection engineering, art conservation, historic preservation, a paint company, and medical fields, to name a few. It's so exciting as a parent to see doors open for our children.

you did a lot just by providing housing! I am certain she is grateful for the support, and it is a blessing that she's able to help your mom in return. (My siblings and I did state colleges too - we were the first generation in our family to go to college)

And to you - nothing better than a good steady parent

I suggest she take 12 additional credits in education so she can be certified to teach!
Working in higher ed for many years, I suggested this to many students, and the ones that did so were always grateful. Majoring in Science, History, English, Art whatever, having a teaching certificate can open doors and offer options after graduation. I'll add that I did not do that, and ended up teaching with a provisional license and needed to go back to school for 12 credits to get certified. That's my unsolicited advice. Please share it with your daughter.
I know you're proud of her!

I'm sure you are so proud of her. She will do so well.

I did the same with my daughter, she got her computer science degree over a 10 year span but ended up with $0 student debt because she stayed home, worked to pay for every semester until she was done. Now she makes more money than I do but she is not burdened with massive student debt and can save towards buying her first home.

It's very rewarding, even though I could not pay for her education, I provided, as did you, an enabling environment for her to achieve her goals.

My neighbor's daughter has a BS in Chem and she's a food chemist. She also has a side (unpaid) gig with America's Test kitchen as a recipe tester. Congrats to your daughter!

I finished my degree at age 45 and I was so happy about how long it took and how important it was to me. I had to get a couple of student loans while I took classes so that my employer could repay me when I passed the test. They wouldn't cover every single class but it helped to pay for 95% of them. When I got reimbursed, I was debt free. Good for her! I'm so happy to see another young woman put in the work to be successful! Yay.

Congratulations to her for being such a responsible and caring person, and to you for raising and supporting such a great person!

If she chooses to go the distance and get a PhD in chemistry, the grad school will be free and she will be paid a stipend.

My daughter did, and is now an assistant professor in that field.

Congratulations 🎉

And BIGTIME CONGRATULATIONS to your daughter!

and once they can do that, they can sart thinking about working on that BA or BS without incurring a crippling amount of debt . It's not the easiest way, but it can be done.

To you and your daughter. WY to go!

to both of you😀

In the real, working world you get ahead by hard work and what you know, not where your diplomas came from. I work in IT and often meet new grads who have massive student loan debt. All that status of attending a snooty private college has long worn off. Hope you two can celebrate together.

Tell your daughter to look into chemist jobs in the food industry, especially jobs for "flavorists". My dad specialized in flavors for food, drinks and pharmaceuticals.

You may have run across my dad's work when you were raising your daughter. My dad invented the sweet candy grape flavor for Children's Dimetapp!

Here's an article explaining what a "flavorist" does on a daily basis:

https://www.owlguru.com/career/flavorists/

all the best to her!!!

for helping her find her way well into adulthood

Im back at my BA at 54... Scared as fuck but what the hell else am I gonna do? My body can't keep up with the old jobs I used to work, so here we go!

Chemistry is no joke! Good for her!!

She's got smarts doing things the way she has been doing. Two of my grandkids have taken the same route. Junior college first two years, got themselves some aid and are now both in a state college that's near home. So one commutes the short distance from home and the other shares an apartment with other young women. They should both be able to graduate without the horrible loan debt. Congrats to your daughter and her proud dad!!

Wish her good luck wtih her chemistry studies.
That course in college was a real struggle for me. Not the lab parts the other stuff, valence levels and the like.
Now my wife didn't pursue a liberal arts type degree because that would have been hard. She did chemistry and later developed a chemical storage system based on reactivity to store them.