Heading out for our first round of visits

fishymom
Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:04:32 +0000

Thanks for all the well wishes, they are greatly appreciated! Jcc, we are visiting lots of schools: Cornell, Ithaca, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Boston College, UVa, UNC, Duke, either NYU & Columbia or Brown (undecided, I am rooting for Brown!), Penn State and Bucknell. One down, ??? many more to go!

Kate, good advice about saving everything. I actually brought an expanding file folder for just that purpose! Each school that we are visiting has its own pocket and everything will go in it, to be sorted and sifted once we get home. And my daughter is keeping a journal, so that should help us keep everything straight.

Fog, safe travel and see you Monday!

Riverrunner, thanks for the advice on the pictures. My daughter is very into photography, loves to photograph landscapes and buildings, but tends to forget about people. I will make a point of getting a picture of us at each school we visit!

Maine, I am so lucky in that our musical tastes are very similar, almost too much so for her taste. A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that her dad and I were going to see a concert and she was upset because she was also going with her friends and heaven forbid her parents were there! Anyway, we are good on the music front!

And the update: Today’s visit went really well, met on campus, coach gave us a tour of the athletic facilites and then we headed to the boathouse. My daughter went out on the water to watch practice with the coach while I rested in the car. She got solid information about where she needed to be athletically and academically, very positive feedback as to her progress so far, lots of encouragement and a request to update the coach if the school was in her top 3-5 schools after all her visits. So, we are off to a good start!

My husband, who is the official puppysitter for the next two weeks, did not have such a great day. Our 10 month old Corgi mix woke him up at 4:00am to go potty. My husband had to get dressed, get his glasses on and by that time, it was too late. Then he took her to work with him and somehow she managed to lock him out of his office, with her inside! Of course the key was in his desk drawer, so he had to break in. And she whined and cried everytime he tried to put her in the crate. It’s his own fault, he spoils her like crazy. I suggested doggie daycare or it’s going to be a very long two weeks!