A thank you to all of the parents on this board...

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<p>Well, half of my finals are over, I’ve got 2 more tommorroww, and my last one is Thursday evening. I don’t think I’ve done too well this semester, and I am hanging by a thread whether or not I’ll get kicked out of school if I go on academic probation. That won’t go over too well with my internship bosses, who of course will not be pleased if my GPA drops to below 3.0 this semester. My final grades haven’t been posted yet, so again I’m hanging on the edge of my seat.</p>

<p>I want to thank all of the parents who provided support to me while I was going through some very tough times in my life. For those of you who aren’t familiar with my situation, I have Asperger’s Syndrome, and as a result I engaged in some behaviors that alienated any friends that I had made at school. As a result, I no longer have any friends at all, and my parents and my psychiatrist do not want me to get any kind of job at all, because I will get fired like I did this semester when I was a tutor in the College of Engineering. I subsequently went to my college’s counseling services for Asperger’s, but all they did was make the situation MUCH worse.</p>

<p>I formally start my internship on Monday. I got a wonderful benefits package that many biology and maybe engineering students would envy. What do you guys think?</p>

<p>1.) Full health coverage, such as medical and dental
2.) Full vehicle coverage, including:
a.) company car, with car payments paid for
b.) car insurance, including liability
c.) all gas paid for
d.) free repairs through company shop
3.) Full tuition reimbursement
4.) Full room and board for living at home
Plus a salary to boot! Not sure if this is a good package for an internship or not, what do you think?</p>

<p>I will be getting to work on an electrical project, or so I was told, around the first week of my internship. It is a traffic signal system we are installing up around the St. Louis area. There may be other electrical work too. Of course, I’ll be learning about biology in research and about civil engineering too, which could help me at school.</p>

<p>Anyways, thank you again, parents for your support during these trying times. You are wonderful people who I aspire to be similar to one day. I hope to get good grades this semester, but I’m not counting on it.</p>

<p>Thank you, and I would appreciate your comments.</p>

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<p>Are you kidding? That’s great! Congratulations!!!</p>

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<p>Congratulations! That sounds like a terrific internship. Enjoy!!</p>

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<p>I’m surprised that that is good benefits, what I named. I’d like to hear from others: is this a decent benefits package for an internship? I don’t want to get screwed if I pursue an internship next summer with the same company.</p>

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<p>That’s the best internship package that I’ve ever heard of!
Typically, at best, interns may get health coverage and a couple of vacation days, but no cars, car repairs, gas, tuition, etc.
I hope that you can see now that you’re very employable and after graduation, you should be able to have far, far more than a McDonald’s
job. </p>

<p>Congratulations!</p>

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<p>Typically parents sometimes do pay for those things. Don’t plan on getting the same ‘benefits’ from an independent employer. If you pursue the same company next year (your parents) how do you think you’ll get screwed?</p>

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<p>bioengineer101actg
I’m posting this on the hopes that you might look into the book recommended below. </p>

<p>please remember ASPERGERS DOESN’T GO AWAY, it isn’t something that you outgrow and as an adult, a bright adult, the more you learn about it, the more you accept that some of your traits are annoying to others and take ownership of yourself the more successful you can be in life!!</p>

<p>We, speech/language pathologists, work with students on strategies and compensation skills in the HOPE that our students will take these skills on with them into college, but alas, too often once the umbrella of special education support is no longer there the students fumble. </p>

<p>LOOK INTO THIS BOOK
Succeeding in College with Asperger Syndrome: a Student Guide. John Harpur, Maria Lawlor & Michael Fitzgerald,</p>

<p>“College life is particularly stressful for students with Asperger Syndrome. This much needed guide provides information to help these students prepare successfully for study, interact with staff and fellow students, cope with expectations and pressures and understand their domestic and academic responsibilities.”</p>

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<p>that’s an AWESOME benefits package. Congrats.</p>