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05-07-2008, 09:14 PM
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#61 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Threads: 24
Posts: 1,524
| Oh No!! My d just received her first Alumni Magazine. She hasn't seen it yet, as she is still up at school. Graduation is Memorial Day Week-end.
Have a feeling, the realization that she is now officially an alum and no longer a college student is gonna take a bit of adjustment.
Lindz and tickle-
My very best wishes. It's truly an exciting time for you. DC and Ann Arbor- very nice places to start the next phase of your life. | 
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05-08-2008, 08:22 AM
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#62 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Threads: 13
Posts: 447
| I'm so jealous of all you with kids getting stipends and full tuition coverage.
D is graduating (magna we think) and going to Northwestern's med school to earn a doctor in physical therapy degree. Big loans. But she deliberately chose it, forsaking the MD route and plans to go some international relief organizations later on.
We're proud of her and thanks to her undergraduate scholarship, she/we are debt-free....not so lucky with S though  | |
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05-08-2008, 10:41 AM
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#63 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Los Angeles
Threads: 1
Posts: 310
| Curiouser,
We are the reverse...some debt/loans for D1's undergrad...and, SO glad that she has been funded for grad school. | |
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05-08-2008, 10:54 AM
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#64 | | CC College Counselor/Musical Theater Counselor
Join Date: Aug 2004
Threads: 122
Posts: 9,964
| We are neither.....have debts for college and will for 3.5 year graduate school. (maybe the smiley face should be  ??) | |
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05-08-2008, 11:16 AM
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#65 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
Threads: 30
Posts: 2,232
| We have been fortunate to have paid for D's education without having to go into debt. She won a merit based scholarship that paid $15,000 over her jr and sr years, and that made a big difference. So we're not in debt, just broke. and
She's only graduating with honors because that's all Chicago has. If they had summa, she would be that, as not only is she PBK, she won the honor a year ago as a junior!
Ultimately, med school, grad school or an MD/PhD are in the cards. After Oxford, she can decide.
I am still amazed at what she's done in 4 years.... | |
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05-08-2008, 11:20 AM
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#66 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Olympia, WA
Threads: 143
Posts: 7,508
| No debts here, and perhaps we can borrow from the hefty size of her graduate fellowship (which she'll never get even close to spending) to pay for her sister's education. | |
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05-08-2008, 11:20 AM
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#67 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2006
Threads: 8
Posts: 202
| Son is graduating Grinnell with an English degree, no debt. I wonder if he had debt if it would have been more likely he would have been a bit more aggressive in trying to find a job!!
He loved Grinnell...but in retrospect, maybe he should have gone to a liberal arts college which required internships. He anticipates grad school in a few years, but he has to find something to do in the interim. It could be tough as there is no basement to run home to.... | |
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05-08-2008, 01:34 PM
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#68 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Texas
Threads: 3
Posts: 210
| Your "kids" all sound amazing! Here's hoping the Class of 2010 parents have the same great outcomes! | |
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05-08-2008, 05:41 PM
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#69 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: PA
Threads: 2
Posts: 224
| S2 will be graduating in 11 days from Lehigh with a major of Mechanical Engineering and minors in Materials Science and History. He's staying for his PhD in MatSci with paid tuition and stipend. I'm just ecstatic he graduated in 4 years. I'm hoping he doesn't become a "professional student". | |
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05-09-2008, 01:03 PM
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#70 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: San Francisco Bay area
Threads: 38
Posts: 914
| Another pair of really proud parents here.
S will be graduating Brandeis next week with a double major in economics and Near Eastern Studies plus a double minor. Eight-time member of the Dean's List and finishing up elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Has a job lined up in DC while he contemplates what to do next. Far superior to his old man, who definitely would not be able to get into the school he attended back when. | |
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05-09-2008, 01:37 PM
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#71 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Threads: 2
Posts: 42
| S1 will be graduating from Swarthmore in 3 weeks (they seem to be later than everybody else) with a physics major and history minor. He's headed to MIT to get his PhD in physics and will actually move up there in July to get a head start working in his advisor's lab. We're all amazed at how quickly the past 4 years have gone by.
S2 will graduate HS five days after S1's college graduation. He's headed to GW in the fall, planning to major in poli sci. Being in Washington the next 4 years should be really exciting (assuming the Democrats win). | |
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05-09-2008, 03:42 PM
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#72 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Berkeley, CA
Threads: 18
Posts: 1,317
| I'm really enjoying hearing from those I've "known" on here for a long time. It's like getting to the end of a good book.
Shellfell -- Ok, tell me your secret. You've got a kid graduating college, your join date is Aug 2004, and you've got a total of one thread and 39 posts. How did you avoid becoming as addicted as the rest of us? | |
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05-09-2008, 04:01 PM
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#73 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
Threads: 30
Posts: 2,232
| Anyone heard from TheDad? Who else are we missing from the "class" some years back? | |
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05-09-2008, 04:04 PM
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#74 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Los Angeles
Threads: 1
Posts: 310
| I believe TheDad is active on the Smith College boards. And, what about Achat? | |
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05-09-2008, 09:40 PM
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#75 | | New Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Threads: 3
Posts: 9
| missing Twinkle and Sunshine | |
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