I keep asking my oldest daughter to think about what she wants to do with her English Comp degree (she’s a great writer). I told her once, if she would pick up a physics minor (she was straight A’s in math and science in HS), I could build a company around her writing technical documents (a lot of companies take techies who can’t write or writers who can’t comprehend the science to write manuals). She’ll probably become a conservative Erma Bombeck. Now my youngest already knows what she wants, (and has since she entered high school). I just think that long before you get to grad school, you have to know what you want to do with your life. I wish Jenny well, but she needs to have some goals.
Smart daddy. There are a kajillion poeple who are fantastic writers but not many who can write technical material well. Picking up a physics minor is pretty darned hard for most people, though it sounds like your brilliant child could do so without breaking a sweat. One possibility: Johns Hopkins University offers a one-year master’s program in science writing that your daughter might appreciate. It would give her a credential she could use to get jobs as a science writer. Because the fact is that the vast majority of science writers do have advanced degrees, so if she’s competing with them either in her own business or in the broader market, she will need some letters after her name. Lots of her competitors will have PhDs.
Just a thought, sent with best wishes for a very gifted young lady. Every success to her!