Day 4315: Masters Degree, and Elysia chlorotica.

        

    

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Virginia Hislop receives a master’s degree at the age of 105.

Yesterday, at the age of 105, Virginia “Ginger” Hislop graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Education with her master’s degree. When she started on campus in 1936, her plan was to get her bachelor’s of education, which she did in 1940, and obtain her master’s of education so she could teach, starting directly after.

However, just after completing her coursework and before turning in her final thesis, her then-boyfriend George Hislop, ’41, a GSE student in Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), got called in to serve during World War II, prompting the pair to get married and Virginia Hislop to leave campus before graduating.

Now – 83 years after leaving campus and living in service to learning – Virginia Hislop returned to Stanford to finish what she started and receive her graduate degree. When she rose from her seat at the ceremony, donned in cap and gown, to walk across the stage and receive her master’s hood, the applause roared. She was handed her diploma and smiled for the cameras. Her grandkids waved and cheered. “My goodness,” she said. “I’ve waited a long time for this.”

To read more: https://stanford.io/3VJt7e7

I keep getting amazed by nature ...

Eastern Emerald Elysia (Elysia chlorotica) this green sea slug is the first animal known to produce chlorophyl and is able to undergo the process of photosynthesis thus appears to be part animal, part plant.

   

 

 

 

 

  

 

A 2+ minute video, Tatsuo Horiuchi/Excel, here

 

 

 

  

 

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