Parents of the HS Class of 2009 - Page 9

Cali_mom · 05-06-2009, 08:36 PM

NM,
I hear ya about the 'laundry piles' all over the floor!

D & S have both been relegated to doing their own laundry since they complained about having to sort their dirty laundry, & put away their clean, folded laundry (into *gasp!* drawers!). Generally there are assorted piles of supposedly clean 'to be put away soon' (and I'm sure mixed with dirty in my S's case) clothes all over their rooms...all I can say, is future room mate...I'm sorry, but I really did try!!

NorthMinnesota · 05-06-2009, 08:58 PM

Hi Northernwoods! Nice to hear from another Minnesota parent!!!

oregon101 · 05-06-2009, 09:19 PM

The 1960s: Understanding the Decade that Shaped your Parents, your Professors, and your Political Leaders

OH! this is one of S's choices for his freshman colloquium

Maybe I will drive down and audit it!

cpeltz · 05-06-2009, 09:44 PM

Mom of an only child heading off to Marquette in the fall in the footsteps of his stepdad who is an alum...one of the main reasons S resisted the great choice!

missypie · 05-06-2009, 10:47 PM

Just finished the sappy graduation the school requires. Thanks to someone's suggest on the 09 thread I scanned in some pictures...the first three pages of the letter were mostly pictures, then on the last page I added more random thoughts than sentimental words.

#theorymom · 05-06-2009, 10:50 PM

Cali-mom
I too apologize to S's future roommate, but on his housing request he did get to list that he keeps his room "more casual" than "generally tidy" - I laughed at these descriptions

cpeltz · 05-06-2009, 10:52 PM

My S's future roommate(s) are in for a surprise - he likes to go to bed about daylight and wake up about sunset, computer/music/TV on all at the same time, and whatever comes off his body stays where it lands. I've tried, truly...and his school has no roommate survey.

crzymom · 05-06-2009, 11:29 PM

Wow, we've already graduated! I am a Ca. mom to a daughter going off to UC Berkeley in August. Go Bears! The decision making for her was torture but she and we are thrilled with the decision. I also have a son who spent a chunk of time at UC Santa Cruz not quite finishing, but now working in sales.

shawbridge · 05-06-2009, 11:32 PM

oregon101, my son will take a freshman seminar at Amherst and the teacher he thinks he will get sends out reading and assignments over the summer -- you apparently have an email debate.

I see there are two Smith parents on this new site (Northernwoods and Plantmom) so we're virtual neighbors.

My son has truly weird neurology and cannot think with music playing. He likes music but really cannot think. How to put that in the roommate survey? I'm pretty sure he'll have one. If not, he'll have to write a letter.

#theorymom, on neatness, "more casual?" Do they have a category beyond that like "room at home is like front yard in Appalachia with old cars stored for parts" or "beware the laundry mountains." He comes by it honestly. I think I was probably like that as a kid. One of my freshman year roommates really didn't like me -- he had problems and left school for a while -- and while part of it was insecurity (I think he wanted to be the academic star in our group and I was at least a year or two younger than everyone else and doing very well) -- part of it was that he was painfully anal compulsive and I was the opposite. My father, a brilliant theoretical physicist, had three offices that were so full of paper that you had to walk in a trail to the desk chair and that the office was once declared a safety hazard (beware the falling stacks of paper from the tops of the cabinets). I would be that way except that I hire an executive assistant to make sure things get put away. And, she comes to my home office every once in a while to excavate.

woody, I also apparently came home from college with a toxic duffel bag -- jeans that would stand up of their own accord. I went to school an hour from home and my son is 1 hour and 20 minutes (if I'm driving; longer if my wife is). So, we may get the same thing.

geek_mom · 05-06-2009, 11:48 PM

OK, just one laundry-related question here: Does anyone else's kid ever use the dryer as an auxiliary closet?

shawbridge · 05-06-2009, 11:55 PM

No, but we stayed with a guy in NY who used the oven as an auxiliary closet.

NorthMinnesota · 05-06-2009, 11:57 PM

shawbridge..you can always bring a smile to my face with your posts!

PS: we found a prom dress today!

oregon101 · 05-07-2009, 12:04 AM

shawbridge--love the visual
NorthM--wish we could blank out the faces and post pics like on TV

shawbridge · 05-07-2009, 12:06 AM

Congratulations on the no-longer-never-ending quest for the holy prom dress.

My daughter had her "formal" on Saturday night and it wasn't "lame" this year, though everybody was "grinding" against everyone else and everyone was very sweaty. Sounds bad to me, but OK. My daughter is 5'8" and was wearing shoes that added more than two inches of platform plus more for the heel. Given a high waist, it looked like 5 feet of legs.

lindz126 · 05-07-2009, 12:06 AM

carrie bradshaw used her oven to store sweaters...but that was more about not cooking, and less about being messy...

(sorry just random, mindless information swimming around~it is after midnight