木曜日に次男が大学を卒業しました。
私は仕事で行けなかったけど、卒業証書は感慨深いですね。
次男は医学部に行きたかったけど、センター試験が悪く、あっさり志望学部を変え、化学系を選択。
それも入学した大学はもともと志望する予定じゃなかったんだけど、ほとんど受かってない状況から、私が無理矢理願書を出した大学。
ここしか受からず、本人も行くと言うので入学。
中学からやっているクラリネットを続けるために吹奏楽団に入り、楽しく活躍。
免許をとってからは、ほとんど車で通う贅沢ぶり。
2年生のときはコロナ1年目でオンラインが多かったかな。
勉強してないから成績は振るわず、でも留年をすることはなく、研究室に配属されたけど、もちろん希望のところではなかったよう。
細かくは知らないけど、そこをどうしても出たいというのがものすごく大きなモチベーションとなり、同じ研究室の友人と、他大の大学院の研究質を回る。
そしてついに他大で、私の亡き父を知る先生(厳密に言うと直接は知らないけど、研究者としての父の名前を知ってる)に出会い、「君はこの研究室に入るために生まれたようだね」と言われて、その大学院を受験。
自分の大学の院も受験。
たぶん、彼自身でもっとも勉強してたんだろうな。
見事両方合格。
生まれて初めて第一志望に合格したと喜んでた。
そして卒業。新たな学校でまた頑張ってね。
My second son graduated from university last Tuesday.
I couldn’t go there but I was moved to see the diploma.
Looking back, he wanted to get into the medical faculty but he couldn't get a good score on the university center exam which was a common exam for students to prepare for entrance exams to University and he selected chemistry.
He decided to join the university which he hadn't raised as a candidate university.
I applied to the university because he didn't pass any university.
He selected it because finall, he passed only it.
He joined the brass band circle to continue the clarinet and enjoyed it.
Since he acquired his driver’s license, he has usually driven to university.
In the second grade, he had online classes due to covid-19.
Totally he lacks studying and his score was not good but he didn't stay at the same grade for some years.
Hence the laboratory to which he was assigned was what he didn't want.
Although I am not sure in detail, he wanted to change the laboratory and it was his motivation to look for laboratories at other universities.
And he and his friend at the same lab went around looking for labs.
Finally, he met a professor who knows my father as a famous professor in the same specialty and he told my son that my son was born to get into his lab.
Then my son tried an exam to get into it.
He passed both there and at his university because he studied the hardest in his life.
He was pleased to ever pass his favorite school.
And he graduated.
I hope he will move forward at his new university.