Parents of the HS Class of 2010 and college years beyond

[littlefalls]

Hello...my code name is LittleFalls....my s will be attending U of Michigian and majoring in Engineering. It will be 11 hours by car or a lovely direct flight into Detroit. He is working full time this summer and the house is already too quiet for me....feeling a bit blue about it all....although excited for him....Ann Arbor is awesome!! CC has been such a great outlet. I am gearing up now to help all the high school senior folks now getting ready for applications. This past school year has taught us all sooo much...that we must share. Cheers!

[mathmom]

Hi everyone!

I'm the other architect. Small solo practice which leads to way too many CC breaks.

Dh does cancer research at a med school.

My oldest son is a rising senior at Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science. He is interning in Silicon Valley this summer (as he did last summer as well - different place though.)

My youngest son will be starting Tufts in the fall as a prospective IR major. He's taking an intensive Arabic course this summer at NYU and is somewhat shellshocked by the amount of work involved. Four hours of class, followed by four hours of homework. It's only three weeks though, so my sympathy is limited.

[DougBetsy]

Good morning!

I've got a son headed to Wake Forest University on Aug 19. He plans to study Psychology and maybe minor in Finance or French. As soon as he passes the APFT (Army Physical Fitness Test) he'll also be an ROTC cadet.

Daughter is HS class of '12 and wants a college with small classes that will prep her for Physical Therapy grad school. She's also ranked as pole vaulter at the state level.

H is self employed in video production. Although his office is in the home, his shoots require him to work a wacky schedule and travel alot. I do employee communciations for an insurance company.

Batman is our black lab. He's 18 months old and likely to attend HYP.

We live in Maryland, midway between Baltimore and Frederick.

[1sokkermom]

^ NO HYP for our dog. He was lucky to pass introduction to puppy obedience training about 6 years ago. The only reason he passed that class was because they didn't want to deal with him again. His name isn't Marley, but it could be... He is destined to be a stay at home dog.

[Kajon]

Good Morning folks,

I have 2 sons. S1 will be attending Carthage in Kenosha this fall. Before I joined CC a year ago I never dreamed we would actually find a school for S1 but thanks to all the guidance and wisdom I received we found a great fit for him.

S2 (college class of 2015) is totally opposite as he will do well in just about any environment. His reaches are high, his safeties are great and he says he will be happy at any of these schools.

So in one year we will be empty nesters. I had looked forward to a ton of travel, but this whole college tuition stuff is cutting into my plans.

[FindAPlace]

Good morning everyone!

May I offer everyone some Grand Marnier French Toast with some Peet's Mocha Java?

I'm up bright and early here for a SoCal person who arrived home late last night from visiting family in the Seattle-Tacoma area. Our plane had mechanical problems that needed to be fixed before we were airborne.

I chose my screen name because our S (our one and only) would be looking to "find a place" to attend college. Giving many thanks to the bountiful information found on this thread and elsewhere on CC, we gave S some good guidance.

S will be spending this summer make a ten day road trip of CA with his other HS graduate friends. The balance of time will be spent volunteering half time at a food bank, and catching as many paid math tutor assignments as he can dig up.

He will be attending Northwestern University (along with one of momof3sons's S), in the science honors program, the Integrated Science Program. He figures to go to grad school and after that, he's not sure. Academia? Industry? Science intrigues him. Upon hearing a college roommate of mine is getting a dual PhD from Harvard (one in epidemiology) he sounded quite interested in it.

S doesn't start his Wildcat Welcome until Sept 14, so he has one of those late quarter starts. Housing assignment and roommate information won't be available until early August.

Back on the ranch (beach? okay, neither of those!) H is a math professor at USC. I work in finance for a CA city, previously as City Treasurer and now I will experiment with transportation finance.

It will be nice to rekindle old virtual friendships and make new ones on this thread. I hope that we maintain the respectful attitude, through thick and thin, that showed regularly on the old Parents of the Class of 2010 thread.

[jackief]

welcome littlefalls! Great that you are going to help those coming after. I know we had several apply to UMich but don't see any other thread members heading there.

I need to make a trip up to BBB. Since D being away for the summer I mentioned I wanted to at least look at XL sheets, she says she doesn't care what I get. I think the rest could wait until she is done at camp in Aug. We will not go overboard because although we will drive her out we expect she will leave most stuff there in storage and fly home at the end of the school year.

Back right before when the 09/13ers were getting their decsions we were neck and neck with their post counts and had a friendly little competition. It will be interesting to see how the posts in this thread take off.

[GSharpM7]

"HELLO MY NAME IS...", GSharpM7 ('cuz that's the chord I was playing [G#m7] when I signed up... not very creative, huh?). Between DW, DD1, and DD2 I am completely outnumbered, and wouldn't have it any other way. I would say that DD1 and DD2 have me securely wrapped around their fingers. I am deeply indebted to this group for its support, but try to pay back a little by providing the "clueless male" (is that redundant?) perspective at which I am embarrassingly adept. I am a William and Mary alum and an IT Consultant that lives in the backwoods of VA.

DD1 - B.A. Virginia Commonwealth University 2009. Working on Masters @ VCU 2011. Currently in LA / Hollywood doing an internship.

DD2 - Princeton University 2014 (hence the reason I am here) will be majoring in "I don't know. Something impractical I'm sure."

DW - My best friend in the whole world (even if she does want me to start that ballroom dancing thing) and has the super-power of actually being able to communicate with DD1 and DD2.

[kindredspirit]

Welcome littlefalls! My D has many hs friends who will be attending UMich. They are psyched! Many we know who currently attend have felt right at home from the beginning.

I am also getting ready to be an empty nester....sigh...very quiet around here as well.

Nice to have you moving forward.

Jackie: I think we are already taking off...to the Beyond.

[my2sunz]

Hi all...
I'm a CC addict, but I'm generally a lurker (and infrequent poster.) I'm about to send my firstborn off to Yale next month. Like some others, it's not as huge an adjustment as it is for others, as he's gone to boarding school for HS. So we did get a head start on the idea of him being away from home. Still, this is a whole new ballgame, so I'm looking forward to the continued guidance and advice from those who have been there before or are muddling along for the first time!
:-)

[parent56]

omg i just realized something...as this thread will be for 2014 and BEYOND..if son does md/phd, i will still be here 12 years from now...seems fitting that that is the same year i will qualify for medicare!!

[parent56]

hi littlefalls and my2sunz!!! i'd offer you coffee but i think the mimosas would be better

[BUandBC82]

Good morning!

I am the mom of 2 boys. S1 is starting at UNC-Chapel Hill this August. He plans to pursue premed as a chemistry major. S2 is a rising junior just starting his pre-college journey.

We live in NC, transplanted from New England. I grew up in CT. H and I lived in Boston/Brookline for several years and we also lived in CT, where our boys were born, before moving to NC. I'm a teacher and H is a physician.

I am happy to be a part of this wonderful group of people here on the Class of 2014 thread!

[DougBetsy]

Welcome littlefalls and my2sunz.

[intouch1520]

Oh no, parent56! You will need a LOT of mimosas!