It really is! I keep telling my kid---you don't know where fandom will take you, you really don't. <3

I hope she goes to Mars too---JPL is sending Curiosity's twin next year to actually look for signs of life on Mars. What they find may well determine what happens next as far as any human settlement there. But for now, it's all utterly fascinating---and it helps as an object lesson of "See, this is where your education can take you. Work hard, dream big." :)