A Letter at Last

A few months ago, Aaron decided he wanted to go to grad school at BYU to get his master's degree in Electrical Engineering. The application process was brutal, mostly because it took a lot of time, which is something Aaron doesn't have a lot of. But he was able to get his GRE studied for and taken, and all his letters of recommendation in, and his letter of intent, and all the other fun stuff that goes along with applying for grad school. And then we waited...

On Friday night a good friend of Aaron's, who is also in the Engineering program, called and said he'd gotten a letter in the mail and that he'd been accepted to grad school, and had Aaron gotten a letter. No, he hadn't, but maybe tomorrow. Now we were kind of nervous. This morning Aaron called another good friend who had also applied to see if he'd gotten a letter. Later this afternoon he called back to say he had. We were still waiting for our mail to come, we were even more nervous.

Finally at 4:30pm our mail came. At first Aaron didn't see a letter, but when he got inside he found it stuck between two advertisements. When he opened it this is what he saw:

He got in! We were so excited. Good job Aaron. I know you'll work hard and make the most out of this opportunity.

The program is a 30 credit hour one, so it should only take Aaron three semesters. Probably a Fall/Winter/Fall since we aren't sure if they offer graduate classes (or at least the ones he needs) during Spring/Summer. What that means is that we'll be in Provo for at least another two years. My mom was very happy to learn about that. :) Aaron also has to write a thesis, and is looking in to getting a research position to help pay for it all.