[speaker001:] do you have children
[speaker002:] uh yes yes I have a daughter yeah she's only about uh uh a little less than two years old
[speaker001:] do you how old is she  uh I guess you have not reached the stage where you need to uh promote a college or anything huh I've got one that's seven and one that's three so we uh we started saving but that's all
[speaker002:] no yeah
[speaker001:] so do you is there are you planning to like encourage your children to go to a particular school
[speaker002:] uh um no uh um no particular school uh I think that's really no such decision that
[speaker001:] that you are going to let them make
[speaker002:] that they well help them make in terms of you know what they are they are wanting to do you know that that's a big influence I think and you know what not only what you can afford but what
[speaker001:] right uh-huh yeah yeah
[speaker002:] what's going to be best for them in terms of what their career goals are
[speaker001:] right uh-huh
[speaker002:] so uh you know you need to go to a school that handles whatever it is you want to do
[speaker001:] yeah where did you go to school
[speaker002:] uh University of Mississippi
[speaker001:] oh was that local or uh
[speaker002:] uh well it was well it was in within the state
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but it it wasn't necessarily local it was
[speaker001:] yeah but I I mean so what's
[speaker002:] what's the criterion for choosing to go there
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] uh well at the time I was uh thinking of going premed and in the state uh they had the best premed uh curriculum for the
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh state institutions it was choice between there and uh a private college that uh was a bit more expensive at the time we really could not afford it so
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh yeah yeah
[speaker002:] I ended up going there although it was quite a drive away for me it uh I enjoyed it
[speaker001:] so you did you commute everyday then or oh okay
[speaker002:] no  no it was a six hour drive
[speaker001:] oh okay when you said it was quite a quite a way away I did not know it that meant you had to drive like an hour or
[speaker002:] well well I was uh it it was like another world
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] basically it was a no it was a did not get home that often you know and at that age it's uh it's kind of
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] kind of difficult sometimes too
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] especially if you have not been away a lot
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] that that extended
[speaker001:] so did you go there like straight out of high school
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh uh see I did not get my degree until later on so I just finished mine a couple of years ago
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh you know I guess you know when you have to do it that way it makes makes your choices a lot easier but
[speaker002:] uh that's true yeah that that's like you know when I went on to get my my masters I
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] basically was you know it was where I was at the time you know I wasn't gonna
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] try to pick and go somewhere else because I was pretty much settled and I was trying to work
[speaker001:] right right
[speaker002:] but uh so when you are first going to school that you kind of have the luxury of being able to have some latitude in choosing the place to go
[speaker001:] exactly yeah what which group do you work in in TI
[speaker002:] um uh the computer science center
[speaker001:] oh uh where is that at
[speaker002:] uh north building
[speaker001:] I see how long do you work for TI
[speaker002:] uh about three years
[speaker001:] did you work somewhere else like sounds like you got your masters before here or
[speaker002:] uh yeah I have uh uh no actually I mean I came straight from school to here so
[speaker001:] I see
[speaker002:] so cause this was the first first real job after getting my degree
[speaker001:] uh-huh after your masters or after your
[speaker002:] after my masters my undergraduate degree was not in not in what my masters was
[speaker001:] I see I see
[speaker002:] so I made career change basically
[speaker001:] uh-huh I see well let's see I have not you know there's a lot of pluses and minuses for different schools you know just like you said uh depending on what they want to specialize in and what you can afford different things like that so I I have not really made up my mind you know whether to encourage them to go different places or
[speaker002:] yeah well I mean I would like to uh you know the uh I I like the school where I went I mean and I would not hesitate at all to uh to encourage her to go there if she wanted to or the school where I got my masters at which which was a different school and uh
[speaker001:] right right right
[speaker002:] I liked it almost as well uh but uh you know that I'm not going to hold them to that just because I went there I you know think that's If they want to that's fine but
[speaker001:] uh-huh right yeah yeah
[speaker002:] otherwise not although I can uh would get quite a break on on tuition yeah because they uh allow for uh
[speaker001:] um because you went there
[speaker002:] uh tuition uh break for out of state students who
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] children of alumnae
[speaker001:] I didn't know that
[speaker002:] well certain schools do it this school does so uh it's been been interesting I I was involved in some uh
[speaker001:] yeah uh
[speaker002:] oh alumnae recruiting uh here in town uh recently uh well last year uh and it was kind of fun because you are trying to to trying to get people interested in your school you know and they were this was a college night at a at a high school in Richardson and it was and there were a bunch of
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] kids you know and a bunch of schools there were a hundred schools probably there all competing for the same kids it's kind of interesting to
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] to to talk up you know your school and I was surprised by the number of kids that came came by and had heard of you know our school and and were interested in it
[speaker001:] yeah your old school uh-huh um
[speaker002:] uh you know we uh you you situations like that you don't realize you know until you start thinking about it the kinds of advantages you school may have over others
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and so I I was real real pleased with that that worked out so well
[speaker001:] yeah so did you drum up any interest then or
[speaker002:] I think so I don't know offhand but uh it seemed like there were quite a few
[speaker001:] well that's good uh-huh
[speaker002:] kids that were definitely interested in going there so there there was one mother who uh came by right even before we started who who obviously was uh very interested in getting her her daughter in or or
[speaker001:] and that
[speaker002:] having gotten her daughter in or something and she was wanting some more information but she was her her daughter was uh a a majorette majorette drum a majorette or something you know a baton twirler or something and she was she was letting us know she how how
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] her daughter was she had cards printed up actually describing you know business cards describing her daughter's uh you know she had won several different twirling awards and all this and she was
[speaker001:] oh really uh-huh
[speaker002:] had these business cards she was passing out and it was quite a production I think some parents go a little bit overboard
[speaker001:] yeah it sounds like it well you know I think Richardson is probably you know one of the places that would definitely
[speaker002:] yes