We Welcome the Second PhD to the Family

We took a trip out to Stanford to watch Nate present, then defend his thesis.

But before that.. 1st stop


Angels at Athletics baseball game.


At least mom is watching the game.


MC. Hammer threw out the first pitch. On a related note, check EBay for my MC. Hammer bobblehead doll (we were one of the first 1000 to the game).


Taylor Dayne (one of Nate's favorites) sang all of the right words to the Star Spangled Banner.


Coco Crisp (ex Redsox player), Athletics scored 8 runs in the first, before the first out.


A trip to Santa Cruz beach and boardwalk.


Mom and son, with a roller coaster in the background. No, we didn't get on it, but we did have garlic fries.


A tour of a two-story Best Buy, Beth eat your heart out.

Now to defending his thesis, first the presentation.

Nate's introduction by his professor. Nate told us there is normally 25 attendees to these affairs, there were at least 50 that showed up for this one.


This was his opening slide, I was okay up to this point, well I recognized the name and date at the bottom. See if you can follow along.





56 Minutes later,

Summary and conclusions.

After a few questions and a gap filler, we all leave Nate to the 5 board members for another hour who will ask him questions about his research. Mom, Ben, Kathi, and I set up a snack-type party to celebrate his positive defense outcome. He made it.





This makes it official.

I mentioned at the top that Nate is the second of the family to receive his PhD, many of you may be wondering "Who was the first?" Well, that should have been easy.



















Liam Schlosser. PhD (Pretty handsome Dude)


Congrats Nate, sorry Doctor Nate








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