<p>Our frat/sorority house: PHI SLUGGA BUGGA :p</p>
<p>Carolyn, your son sounds like a wonderful young man…the earliest period my son is interested in, is 18th century (17th century?), ‘Age of Reason’.>></p>
<p>Achat, I had to laugh when I read this as I had just climbed out of our jacuzzi where my son had been pontificating about his thoughts that no history worth noting occurred after 1100 A.D. :)</p>
<p>Aptus est omnia. (literally, fit is everything)</p>
<p>Jmmom. Perfect. I am actually copying that to clip to my bulletin board as a reminder for the next year while D. applies to colleges.</p>
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We will have to beat them away with sticks!</p>
<p>I personally think our primary admission criteria should be
(1) child is a nice kid
(2) child has a parent who is a regular poster on CC and liked by other CC posters (our form of “legacy”)
(3) child is interested in learning for learning’s sake, regardless of what his/her GPA shows
(4) child has a good sense of humor</p>
<p>We will develop our own “standardized” test to measure the above. All applicants will be required to spend one week on an observational cruise boat together to determine their ability to get along with others without excessive partying or bragging about their stats.</p>
<p>And, lest anyone beat me to the punch:</p>
<p>Curmudgeon for President!!!</p>
<p>All in favor, say “Aye”</p>
<p>AYE!!!</p>
<p>GO BUGGS!!!</p>
<p>P.S. Can #2 not hurt the applicant’s chances much? My parents don’t know about CC, and I want to get into Confidentialia very badly. It is my top choice!</p>
<p>Aye</p>
<p>Just don’t set the tuition rate based on MY screen name please! </p>
<p>And I have a tuba player. He plays nice and never runs with scissors.</p>
<p>Ah, we’re into building our first class, are we?</p>
<p>Do we want the applicants to be round, egg-shaped (not quite edgy but not WRK), tilting to one side (my S would qualify, plus he’d get the legacy hook) square (but not boring), sinewy (as long as they don’t look like rattlesnakes, in which case Curmudgeon would get off his pedestal and be after them in his boots with a stick)?</p>
<p>Have to have the quirky factor.</p>
<p>Also, need to have an Extension Program for the “older” students to take courses of interest from the esteemed profs. 4 hours, one evening a week. Meetings to take place at area restaurants. Oh, that means we have to decide what retail establishments we want to surround the campus.</p>
<p>Yes, the quirky factor is a must.</p>
<p>As for retail establishments, we should try to stay away from major chains. Some stores that I would like to see are:
[ul][<em>]Trader Joe’s
[</em>]Ikea
[<em>]Barnes and Noble
[</em>]another bookstore (small, not a chain)
[<em>]a cute coffeehouse, preferably not Starbucks
[</em>]a cool toystore
[*]some art, jewelry, and clothing stores that are not chains[/ul]</p>
<p>Marite, I still say we should fix your son up with my daughter. Ah, another campus service: matchmaking!</p>
<p>OK any more Aye’s for Curmudgeon as president of Confidential College?</p>
<p>I would <em>love</em> to hear curmudgeon’s first commencement address!!</p>
<p>When I leave campus in the evenings, I shall return to my home, which will be a nearby B&B with rooms available for families visiting their students. My husband will provide nightly classical guitar interludes, and will happily sign up to teach math, adhoc networking, and guitar at Confidentialia. I nominate digmedia as a geology and design instructor (dig, wouldn’t that be appropriate?).</p>
<p>I have a quirky (“tilted”, I like that, marite!) sophomore S who will likely apply. Is it too forward of me to pre-announce this as his top pick? He will have great test scores, terrible grades, great sense of humor, non-linear thought process, creative streak, and long hair. He dances, plays drums, does ceramics, draws anime, and worships motorcycles. Where can he find the application, and would somebody’s S take a chance and be his roommate, please?? (That way, we could commisserate when our boys do completely incomprehensible things.)</p>
<p>Your son is IN as far as I am concerned Mootmom. :)</p>
<p>In case I missed it, have we designed an emblem or shield to go with the motto? I would suggest a background of CC blue. Perhaps two of the figures might be a computer mouse and a pair of bloodshot eyes.</p>
<p>Yes, Curmudgeon for Pres.</p>
<p>Many colleges have really cool Freshman Pre-Orientation trips where the kids go various places (sailing, rock climbing, etc) for around 4 days in the late summer, right before registration). So I say we have those for the kids, but the profs and administration (us) ALSO go on our OWN trips (not with the kids). The key thing would be that, in keeping with the unique nature of our school, they shouldn’t be your standard trips (you know- London theater trip, etc.) but something really cool and bizarre…</p>
<p>Ohhhh…Voronwe…a parents trip! I like that idea.</p>
<p>And, I also think that once you pay tuition for your kid to attend Confidential College that you should have lifetime rights to attend college classes there yourself…and there will be “senior housing” attached to the main campus for us won’t there?</p>
<p>I nominate DH as a one man science department, although he considers biology to be a pseudoscience (unlike chemostry and physics) so the offerings may be scant.
As a Boy Scoutmaster and general Renaissance man, he could also be in charge of organizing the Freshman Orientation trips, he has a cool gear trailer. The first trips could include rattlesnake ranching courtesy of Curmudgeon</p>
<p>Aye, for Curmudgeon for President!!</p>
<p>We could have Coureur teaching Genetics and Biology. We could have optimizerdad teaching Math and Algorithms.</p>