Congrats to your son @wolverinealum ! I am confident our kids picked the right school for them :). I saw some nice boys posts on FB and thought your son may click well. I hope he is able to find a roommate that he likes.
Funny someone mentioned kids won’t come back after they go to CA for college. I am sorry to say that may be true lol. We have 2 family friends. One with 1 girl and another with 2 boys. 2 went to UCLA and one went to Berkeley. Neither came back after graduation. They loved CA so much, 1 is doing PhD at Berkeley and 2 found good job, they have no desire to go back home to the suburbs of NJ! Their parents are totally fine with it, give them excuses and more places to visit. I shared my concern with hubby about loosing our girl to CA, he said “oh honey it would be so depressing if T coming back to this town after college!”. Mind you I love my town and there are plenty of high tech jobs around here, I was a little taken back but then it’s all making sense to me. There is nothing to hold us back here, we have been itching to get out of NJ ever since we left CA over 20 years ago. But then we have kids and stable jobs, stable life, good friends, good schools for the kids, so NJ here we are.
Anyways, I am looking forward to visit CA more than just once every couple of years. My husband’s adviser is still teaching at Berkeley, and a few of his colleagues are still there. I have a lot of family in the Bay Area also. We will have 5 family members attended/attending Berkeley by this fall (my older sister, my younger’s sister’s husband, my hubby, myself and daughter). I am conflicted between pausing the alumni donation or increase it now that D is going to pay OOS tuition lol.