<p>I guess I started the girlfriend discussion but please note that there are also plenty of plebes breaking their girlfriends hearts these past few months. My son the plebe, who I admire greatly, spent his last six months of “freedom” playing the field. In his last 8 weeks at home he broke up with his semi-steady girlfriend, took a junior girl to the prom (she fell hard for him and he had to explain things to her), and took a trip to North Carolina to visit a girl he’d met at Duke University the summer before. His mother and I had never heard of her until he told us of the visit - he’d been emailing and im’ing her all year apparently.
Of course, when I was his age, my heart broke three or four times.</p>