Twin boys, sons 3 & 4 will be starting HS in the fall. DS1 '13 graduated NEU last May and is a firmware engineer. DS2
'15 will graduate Grinnell this May and will be going to grad school in industrial/organizational psych.
The twins were taken along on college visits for their older brothers starting when they were in kindergarten. For years they were upset that neither brother ended up at University of Rochester because they couldn’t go back to the museum of play.
Both boys are looking forward to marching band. Twin 1 says his only sport is math, will be competing in state Mathcounts this weekend. And his goal for the past 2 1/2 years has been to take linear algebra in high school. (He actually watches Youtube videos on linear algebra, who even knew anyone made that) I don’t know why our hs even offers it, but as soon as he found out he was determined. He is currently teaching himself Algebra 2 and plans to test out of the class. I have very mixed feelings and discouraged this for a few years, but he is determined so I will let him try, not sure if I am hoping he succeeds or fails.
Twin 2 (he is a full minute younger) is just as academic as his brother, but more social and more serious about music. He plays trumpet (twin 1 plays trombone) and started piano a few month ago and already knows the best schools to major in trumpet. He says he wants to go to Northwestern and double major in trumpet and finance.
Twins other big interests are dungeons and dragons and mountain biking.
I spend a lot of time telling them to focus on 8th grade and 9th grade, that it’s too early to think about college and by the way if you have to think about it our state flagship is excellent. This is the side effect of 2 older brothers and being the youngest of 10 cousins, the next youngest is a high school senior.
Looking forward to sharing our kids hs adventures with all of you.