Honors College

bxian
Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:30:32 +0000

We are from the Northeast. S has not heard of anyone in his class that will be attending IU-although we know of 2 kids who are there.
S is hard to quantify. On the outside, you would say he is an Abercrombie-wearing kid who is bright (mostly honors classes in HS) and has a good sense of humor. He is not into playing sports (although he has gotten into watching football and college basketball, and ran track in the early part of HS). He likes movies, music, shooting pool, and going out to eat. His group of friends is very ethnically diverse. Most of his friends are kids who are strong students. He would tell you that he tends to shy away from kids that are “fringy,” yet he still maintains a strong bond with a childhood buddy that wears “goth” looking clothes. He says that he tries to look beyond how his friend dresses and accept him for who he is. He has done a lot of community service in HS. All in all, a good kid with a good heart-and a great listener.
I suspect that (like his college soph sister), he will enjoy going to parties in college-but I don’t see him as a hard core partyer.
From what IU housing tells me-Foster is for the International students, while the global village is for kids who study abroad. Why is SW less desireable? If my S is not a hard core partyer-should he stay away from NW?