OT: Proud Father Moment (For All MGoDad's With Daughters)
I debated on adding this to the multiple Da'Shawn threads, but I was so proud I had to share it by itself. My daughter (an NHS student who will be attending Hope in the fall) had 20 points taken away in class today for having her phone out. Normally I'd be mad, but the teacher told my wife that she was "on twitter, and some site called mgoblog, following some football player". My wife knowing me all too well, knew to whom the teacher was referring to, since I was on cloud nine yesterday after RivalsMike's tweet. Having had three children that are all girls, this pretty much made my life. Of course my wife is pretty irritated with me, but with Michigan likely leading in the race for Da'shawn Hand, and my daughter taking an interest in Michigan Football; everything is coming up Millhouse.
You may now commence with your "cool story bro" comments.
of a 10 month old daughter, I approve this thread.
I also hope that one day, she will be caught in class on mgoblog following the recruiting class of 2031.
It seems as though we have at least two users who were celebrating our first win OSU in a...ahem..proper fashion.
Irrespective, I would be ecstatic if my children were similarly obsessed with Umich sports.
Awesome story, why Hope and not Umich? Although, Hope is a great school
She really wanted to go to Hope. My wife went to Hope, and she really loves the school. She was so intimidated by Michigan that even after she was accepted, she never gave it a second choice. She loves Michigan, but she's a multi generation legacy at Hope, and her two best friends currently go there. Even though I would've had to pay more for her to go to UM, I would've done it, because I never got to. I was always destined for CMU. Both my parents attended there, and I initially wanted to teach.
Not even applying to Michigan is my one regret from my college years. Growing up in Mt. P (and being accepted to CMU as Junior), I just always assumed that was where I was going to go. The fact I have 0 student loans (of which I would have need a lot of to attend M) helps me sleep at night, but what could have been......
I went to Hope over Michigan as well. I was motivated partly by academics, and partly by personal preference. Academically, Hope is a super successful launching point for pre-med students. Many of my classmates went on to Michigan medical/dental school, and I thought maybe I wanted to do the same. As for personal preference, I just really liked the small class sizes, the personal atmosphere, and the direct contact I had with my professors. The small-scale thing is not for everybody, but I really made us of their wisdom and learned a lot about being an independent scientist. Oh, as it turns out, Hope is really big into undergraduate research. And I don't mean like you work in a big lab full of grads and post docs doing menial tasks for them - the entire system is designed to make sure you have your own project, you're the one calling the shots, coming up with ideas, etc. You're actually the most important person they have. So I fell in love with the lab, and now I'm closing in on a PhD in neuroscience. I still keep in touch with my professors at Hope via email, they want to know how I'm doing. I may even go back to Holland and give a seminar talk on my work in the near future. Basically, it worked out really well for me.
thing doesn't work out, you totally should recruit for Hope.
Cool story, bro!
No, really. That's really cool!
I would be happy to hear this story at a party.
so closely. I have two daughters - one graduated last year from U-M and the other is a current junior at U-M (by itself something I'm extremely proud of). But alas, neither are fanatics about U-M sports like my wife and I. At least they have shown interest when Michigan has done well recently however.
I approve this message, assuming she is keeping her grades up. We can't take any chances with the APR!
Edit: yes, I know you said Hope. Harris said MSU, one never knows.
As a toddler, my daughter would crawl on the couch with me on Sunday to watch "The Bo Show" (Michigan Replay). She comes back home for as many games as she can manage, and the M-Den has a definite role in her wardrobe selection.
Already has the entire Notre Dame weekend planned out. It will be a father and daughter weekend and it will be a blast. Go Blue!
Congratulations. I would have cried the happiest tears of joy in my life. And I am married and have two children.
My daughter is 4 and was at day care this winter playing with some building blocks. She knocked the blocks over accidentally and uttered the phrase Dammit followed by the word Michigan. She believes the curse word is "Dammit Michigan" because the only time anyone says dammit in our house is when they are watching the Wolverines play and something bad happens. The daycare providers said they had to turn away so my daughter wouldn't see them laughing. Apparently she said it several times that day. My wife was less impressed but has grown to enjoy the story.
That is may daddy-daughter Michigan story.
That would have easily been a plus-20 post under the old voting system.
The best part is that I told my wife "Don't blame me for Ally learning the phrase Dammit Michigan, blame Rich Rod.
There's probably a few confused kids out there who thought "Goddammitrichrod" was a swear word
Give her a raise in allowance, buy her a sports car and buy her some new Uggs boots. She's a great kid IMO.
Got a good laugh out of this. I was expecting to be in a strong eye roll halfway through reading about your daughter getting married. This is much better.
My daughter is only seven, but she already knows about MGoBlog actually. Just a week or so ago, in fact, I was reading the front page and left to go do something in the kitchen, leaving my laptop on the sofa. While I am in there, this exchange happens:
"Daddy?"
"Yes..."
"What does Unverified Voracity mean?"
"It begins with a mistake someone made long ago..."
It's hard to explain the entire site to her, but she does enjoy the numerous memes and videos that get posted here (the ones she is allowed to see anyway - we do monitor that closely, and it certainly is not every day that she notices the site is open). Even last night, "What was that funny photo on MGoBlog that you were laughing at?"
She does actually sit down with me when I am not at the games and watches them with me. I took her and my son to the Iowa game last year actually, and for a week, I had to hear her say, "I wonder what Greg Davis would do here...". Worse, I had to explain that reference to my wife, who is not at all a sports person.
Awesome story, OP!
I'm a little envious. My daughter, who is 19, won't watch sports with me unless her brother is playing. And really, that's just so she can see him knock other kids down.
Is it just me or do any of you cringe that young kids read this blog? Some of the language and graphics here are more than PG-13...
You kind of can't control it anyway.
My oldest daughter is 15, younger daughter is 12, and son is 8. The biggest internet issue we've had is is with my son searching for Lego and Minecraft YouTubes and finding other stuff. But if you shield them from it forever, they won't know how to cope in the real world.
As for the OP, I'm with you, man. My girls bleed Maize and Blue. In Feb of '12 my wife and I were in AA for the weekend. We were at Yost on Friday and the M-OSU basketball game on Saturday. Both times my daughter was on twitter letting us know by text where Denard and 'Tree were and when they got to the games.
My older one actually knew about Peppers before I did. We were in the car driving home, my wife read me the update, I yelled out "Yes!" and my daughter said, "Oh yeah, I saw it about 45 minutes ago. I just figured you knew."!
So kudos to you. You've done well Sir.
When I was dating my soon-to-be wife I took her to the UM-OSU game in 1977. She was so bored she took out a book and started reading. Unfortunately, my daughter takes after my wife and doesn't give two shits about sports.
Lucky for me my daughter has taken after me in my passion for Michigan athletics. She is a swimmer who hopes to one day compete at Canham.
I had your problem. My oldest daughter (10) decided two years ago to be different and now is a big OSU fan. She's the only one out of the immediate family (ex-wife, brother, and sister) who doesn't like UM. Ugh. It's tough, but I'm supportive of her independence and desire to make her own way.
Besides - I did the reverse when I was about her age. Family was all HUGE OSU fans and I went Blue out of the blue...so guess this is Karma!
100% approve. My 2 year old daughter sings the Michigan fight song already, and yells Go Blue whenever she sees any sports on TV.
I'm proud of you! Nicely reared!
My daughter wore her Michigan Hockey T to lacrosse camp today. Not as cool as getting busted on MGOBLOG in class, but my pride still swelled.
My daughter is headed off to college but attended every home football game with me last year. She was waitlisted at Michigan and is planning to attend GVSU (I really liked our visit to Hope). My son will be a junior at Michigan next year. Neither of my kids would even apply to MSU which did not make my wife happy (M grad but thought MSU should be in the picture).
My daughter is not a big enough fan to read MGoBlog but my son is a huge U of M fan and has been for years.
BTW for anyone expecting your status as an alumni to help with your children's admission, you will be disappointed. I'm second generation alumni, my wife is an alumni, my son is a current student and my daughter is in the middle 50% on grades and scores for people accepted to U of M, but still no dice. As far as I can tell alumni status makes zero difference. Not even a tiny bit.
I think legacy status just breaks a tie between otherwise near-identical candidates.
If one person would pay more in tuition (i.e. out of state vs in state) then I'd say the two candidates are not near-identical as far as the admissions criteria goes.
I think legacy only comes into play when there is nothing else discernably different between two candidates.
with the whole "M Grad but thought MSU should be in the picture." I am encouraging out of state if they don't get into Michigan. My oldest is 12, so this may be premature, but you can never start encouraging straight A's too early.
My youngest son is in "Young 5's" and they held their graduation ceremony yesterday. The teacher said something nice about all of the kids, and when it was Logan's turn she mentioned that every once in a while he would walk up to her desk with a smirk and give her a drawing of someone wearing a shirt with a big block M on it. He would laugh histarically becuase the teacher and the assistant are both Sparties. I'm trying to raise my boys the right way, with a love for the maize and blue.
My son would draw a picture where the superhero was dressed like Michigan and the villians were dressed in MSU and OSU gear.
Know the feeling. My freshman-to-be daughter yelled at me last night to make sure I order her football tickets for this fall (they went on sale for freshman students on Monday). I told her that all the seats were GA and she had until June 28th. She stomped off and said fine, we'll do it tomorrow (today). I acted mad, but secretly was pleased.
I was the second daughter born to my Dad, a huge Michigan fan, and I think I was supposed to be a boy. Anyway, he taught me all about football and took me to many games, including the 1979 Michigan Indiana game. I was just a little thing, and I would pick up the phone at home and "call" Bo and say "throw it to Anthony Carter". Anyway, my Dad died suddenly in fall of '09, and I can't think of any better way to honor him that also being obsessed with all things Michigan! mission accomplished.
You are a great Dad!