American Dream: To Prevail Against All Odds
by Norma Jaeger Hopcraft
My daughter's dream of earning her Ph.D. came true recently. She labored for six years, not knowing if she would prevail or not. She studied the Hepatitis C virus and how it enters the liver.
She persevered! She got it! A lesson for all of us.
I asked what she would aim for, now that she had won her Ph.D. She said she just wanted to keep doing what she was doing, scientific research.
Here's Sharon with her advisor and mentor, Dr. Matt Evans. You can see her ace her thesis defense at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLLIybs_OXQ.
She just added "Ph.D." on masking tape to her name outside her laboratory.
She's at her bench, where she pushed the frontiers of science back a little.
This is the building where she worked, the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine building at 100th Street and Madison Avenue. The shot is taken from across the Jackie Onassis Reservoir in Central Park, NYC.
Here is where my daughter labored long and hard.
One last shot of where she spent six years of her life.
How about you? Will you persevere? Stick with it!
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