I agree completely about scholarships – should be based primarily on performance not ‘need’ .
Maybe grants should take ‘need’ into account .
But remember we live in a time of participation trophies .
It would be an honor to meet your son some day . I took post grad classes in Light and Optics to help with work I was doing on a laser interferometer to study flow patterns in a Mach 2 wind tunnel I designed . Light is fascinating … and exhibit some spooky phenomena that indicate communication between components of light that are instantaneous , not limited by the speed of light . Einstein believed that as matter approached the speed of light , its mass would become infinite .