Graduate School

We are currently being faced with making the decision of where Richard should go to graduate school...stay here or go somewhere else...that is the question. He doesn't graduate until April 2010, but this is a decision that is supposed to be made quite a bit in advance. He will take the GRE next summer and needs to know which schools he wants it sent to because they will send his score straight to four schools for him. So in order to get some help on making this decision we attended a Civil Engineering Graduate Banquet that was put on by BYU's Civil Engineering Faculty. It was a lot of fun, and really informative. They had faculty sitting at each table, so that was really great for Richard to be able to talk to some faculty. The best part about that was that Dr. Gerber was the professor at our table and he specializes in Geotechnichal Engineering, which is what Richard wants to do, so that was GREAT!
The banquet started at 6:30 and we had a delicious meal catered by BYU (always good)! First we had salad and rolls. Followed by chicken and broccoli alfredo for dinner. That was all topped off with personal chocolate cream pies (so fun!), the had whipped cream and chocolate chips, and it was DELICIOUS! I wish I had thought to take a picture so tha I could make you all jealous, but I didn't, so you'll just have to imagine it. :)
After dinner there were a few different speakers talking about the advantages of graduate school. They informed us that starting in 2015 it is going to be a requirement to have a Master's Degree in order to become a professional engineer. Therefore, now is the time to do it because it 7 years they are going to be competing with young engineers who all have Master's Degrees.
It was a great night and it was really fun to meet some of Richard's friends from his classes! We had a great night!