Dropping of first year students

franglish
Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:29:02 +0000

It was pretty awkward at first, as I recall. Daughter really didn’t want us around at all. But we planned to stay over one night so we dropped her off, let her set up her room, hung around without her for a while, checked back in with her (didn’t eat dinner with her), stayed the night in the motel, went on Sunday to the speech by President Ruth and then when she said, firmly, it’s time to go, we hugged daughter and then drove home. Daughter was fine after the initial awkwardness because she’d already made some friends by Sunday. Ruth Simmons is a great speaker, and most of the families stuck around until then. If you are able to hear her speak, you’ll be glad you stayed for that. There are chairs all set up on the College Green and it’s impressive to see all the students and the families who are gathered for this great adventure’s beginning. The students have their first dorm unit meetings right after her speech. So it was quite natural.