<p>The quarter system is uncommon around here and all of D’s friends have left for school or moved into their dorms/apartments. She wants to go to Columbus NOW.</p>
<p>Grumpy doesn’t even begin to describe it…</p>
<p>Ha, same way my ex-boyfriend is. Of course, I’m still here but that wouldn’t be cool to hang out with a High Schooler. Ugh.</p>
<p>Anyway, his last friend leaves September first and after that, he’s going to be grumpy as heck. I don’t want to be around him.</p>
<p>Wait until next summer when she comes home a month later than everyone else and every decent job is gone. Ah, the joys of quarters… :)</p>
<p>If your child is able to secure an internship, they usually have no problem with them starting a month late…especially because they get them until late September…</p>
<p>And if they choose to stay in Columbus, all the Columbus businesses are used to it…</p>
<p>It’s soooo much worse before freshman year because there’s all the anticipation and build-up. Last summer, my last day of high school was May 23, and I had to wait till September 17 just to move in! All my friends left; it was terrible. My mom and I went on all kinds of adventures together after my little siblings went back to school; we went kayaking and hiking and such…but still, what a wait! I’m happy to report that this summer has been better, but I’m still eager to go back to Columbus.</p>
<p>Thanks ambi. You described it well.</p>
<p>She was in tears last night because one of her closest friends said he couldn’t be sure he could attend a going-away dinner in September because he was so busy. She’s worried that she’ll end up losing touch with her friends. I wonder if facebook and myspace will help students communicate more with their old friends than I did back in the day when you had to use stamps.</p>
<p>I know I communicated a lot with a core group of my friends even though I moved out-of-state to go to OSU. But at the same time, I made a ridiculous amount of friends at OSU, and these were friends that I spent every waking hour with.</p>
<p>What I found was that, like I said, I still communicate semi-regularly with a core group of friends from high school (probably only 5 or 6 people), and it didn’t come from lack of trying, but it was just the way those friendships sort of worked their way out over the years.</p>
<p>Any time I go home, we’ll still try and get together and hang out a bit, and I actually have one of these friends coming up one weekend in September.</p>
<p>Yeah, it was hard at first to leave my friends back home, but then, over time, I found that it wasn’t so hard and the friends that I really cared about were the friends that stayed my friends throughout college.</p>
<p>My D is a senior at OSU and hasn’t lost touch with ANY of her close friends. Facebook is like crack! lol! When she comes home she’s on it for hours, and when she hooks up with her friends, it’s like they never left. Between facebook, myspace and a cell phone with unlimited texting, I might add, she’ll be fine. I only hope that she doesn’t take to Columbus too much, it’s really really fun on and off campus.</p>
<p>For me, and a lot of my friends, life is making friendships difficult enough to keep. Several relationships, no matter the seemingly wonderful state of things to the outside (parents and mutual friends included), easily crumble as soon as someone has left home.</p>
<p>But Facebook is like crack… about 1/2 of OSU’s freshman class is in the big Facebook group, so I’ve already made several friends in my building and elsewhere. Non-drinkers have even formed a niche of which I’m glad to be a part. It’s a fun way of doing things, really. I love technology’s communication abilities.</p>
<p>Well, she’s finally gone too. I had asked housing if we could move-in earlier than the 6pm OWL move-in because we were driving up the day before and would just be sitting in the hotel room all day. They said OK. </p>
<p>We got there around 10am and parked at a meter in a lot on the west side of Lincoln. We went up to the front desk on 15 on got her keys. She left her driver’s license with them and we got a huge basket on wheels. It was like a linen cart in a large hotel and we needed only two trips to get everything! When we arrived at her room, the key to the suite wouldn’t work. Dad tried with no luck. A maintenance guy was walking by and he looked at it and told her that it was a temporary core and she needed to ask the front desk for the temporary key. She went down and got it with no problem. </p>
<p>After some putting away and such we went to lunch at the Buckeye Hall of Fame cafe near Target (good food). We went to Target for more hangers, printer paper, etc. She got her books at the B and N bookstore and then we went to the software shop on campus. They are sold out of all 7 Microsoft products they sell so we paid for Office for Mac and got on the waiting list. I wonder if the problem is with OSU or Microsoft.</p>
<p>We went back to the room and finished up. We went back to the B and N bookstore to exchange an incorrect textbook and then had dinner at Eddie George’s restaurant (11th and High). You have to go and see the bathrooms!!! The food was good. Then we took her back to the dorm parking lot, said our good-byes, and drove away. No tears from either of us.</p>