Help with persuading parents to let me attend Smith

yxyxyx
Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:11:40 +0000

@momwaitingfornew I don’t think I’m going during commencement already. My job now involves tutoring children and most of them are going to have exams during the later part of May so I can’t just leave them here. I also can’t miss my sister’s birthday… I think I will visit during the end of may or start of june. Hopefully the campus won’t be empty by then!

@pmyen thanks for the suggestions about who to meet! I’ll definitely make sure that my father will be beyond impressed. His idea of what Smith is is far from reality. He just keep telling me to make sure that its not a few buildings only. Actually I’m rather worried because Smith doesn’t exactly have a very big campus. My father said that a university must have a university feel, so it must be big.

I’ll check out those places in Chicago And maybe even Broadway as well! My parents are more accepting now, they just want to make sure that Smith is not some bogus place. So they did make some allowances… they just keep warning me that I must be prepared for being poor next time. I don’t know why they just have this impression that people who graduate from LACs can’t earn money. But still I think going to Smith in the fall is a possibility already (yay!).

@CarolynB My father will be at Rockford, IL and that’s pretty far from Chicago I think? I’ll get him to drive me down during the weekend though, I guess I’ll just walk around Rockford myself during the weekdays. By the way, will your daughter be doing tours around the end of may to june? If so, that will be great because if your daughter is available and willing, we can customize the tour just to impress my father… shove in his face all the new state of the art buildings and facilities. Tell him all the anecdotes of recent graduates who went to HYPMS for graduate/JD/PhD.