a senior's take on good-bye

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<p>make sure you have that box of tissues handy…</p>

<p>from a guest column in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer:</p>

<p>“Parents, if you’re wondering why you’ve been kept out of this “unofficial college process,” it’s because we wanted it that way. If you were to start getting all sappy about saying good-bye, then we might, too, and then where would our hard exteriors go? Few of us talk about how much we’re going to miss home; we prefer to sound confident instead - by talking about how great things will be once we get to college.” </p>

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<p>Yeah, I got a little misty-eyed reading it this a.m…and send it to my D, at her new college email address with the title “read this!”</p>

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<p>Thanks for finding this article for us, ivoryk.</p>

<p>It’s good for us to be reminded that our pre-freshmen are doing a lot of mental processing this summer that we may not be aware of.</p>

<p>I know that I tend to focus too much on logistical details. (This morning, my pre-frosh daughter and I were discussing whether it would be cheaper to rent a minivan for the trip to her school or to ship some of her stuff and use our own, much smaller car for the trip.) But there’s more going on here than logistics. I need to remember that.</p>