<p>My D has rolled her eyes about me meeting people from CC…but tonight we’re meeting one of her on-line friends and her parents for dinner. The foe is on the other shoot.</p>
<p>Actually, it’s fun. Mootmom has lots of great stories and I only heard a few.</p>
<p>I think we should have a more widely attended “moot”.</p>
<p>And the dinner conversation was totally enjoyable in the other direction, too, p2n! 
I’ve tried many times to set up a larger moot when someone visits from another area, but as you can see, I was the only one to show up. (Sigh. As the moot mother, you would think I could gather the attenders, but I was inadequate to the task.) The only decent-sized moot we’ve been able to get stirred up was the one for jmmom back on Hallowe’en '05. I keep wishing we could replicate that, given the Posting Talent in this area. </p>
<p>(And yes, understanding this post involves having heard the stories of the derivation of my screen name. )</p>
<p>I have met Mootmom, and Carolyn, and Sweetkidsmom, and I am supposed to meet Lorelei this summer (missed the NYC rendezvous they had this May…). Does anyone remember Hautbois? I met her also and she is terrific…she is DD’s oboe teacher at SCU. AND my good sport daughter (who actually enjoys meeting you "invisible friends) had dinner with Mootmom and Mominva this spring. They went to Sus which is a place I’m DYING to go to (yes Mootmom…I do intend to get back to Santa Clara this coming school year, and I’m planning my trip around YOUR schedule!!). If I ever meet MomofWildchild, I’m bringing my son’s picture from the back of the BUTI “yearbook” from 2003 so she can take it back and see if her daughter knows my son!!</p>
<p>I’ve met soozievt and hope to meet at least one Grinnell parent at Parent’s Weekend.</p>
<p>When we visited Pomona, I met alacrity, who graciously took my son to dinner and introduced him to a bunch of students, including chopsticks. When I was talking with my son’s admissions rep there, we got on the subject of CC and he suddenly said, “You musy be bethievt!!” Kind of funny. Makes me wonder how much time admissions people spend lurking around here.</p>
<p>That’s scary that an admissions rep recognized you!!</p>
<p>Hey, Thumper…if you get a chance, please pass on greetings from TheDad to Hautbois. She was one of my favorite posters back when the rocks of CC were still cooling and D’s search was getting intense.</p>
<p>TheDad…will do. Hautbois has been one of my daughter’s surrogate moms this year. She has been simply terrific, and more than an applied music teacher. DD really cherishes her time with Hautbois. And I appreciate how well she has looked after my girl. Mootmom saved the day also…at Christmas when I wanted to give my kid a Safeway card, I found that the only way I could order one online was if I had a zip code for a location where there were Safeway stores (now how STUPID is that…if there was a store in my area, I would have gone there). Mootmom went and got that card for me so Santa could put it in DD’s stocking.</p>
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<p>Bethievt, Wow, that is quite wild. It does makes you wonder, doesn’t it? For example, how many people might approach on college tours or info sessions etc. if you walked around with a button saying I’m XXXXXX from CC! LOL.</p>
<p>Thumper, thanks. </p>
<p>Roshke, as it is, there are enough “My Mom talks to your Dad on College Confidential” discussions between students, punctuated by synchronized eye-rolling. I think several staff at my D’s college know me by name (how they do so with my low profile, I dunno)…some appear to appreciate my posts about the college, others not so much.</p>
<p>TheDad, No buttons here. I haven’t even put the school decal on my car, yet!</p>
<p>I met morangotango and FindFishFast at Dimensions and went to school with eswartz89. If I remember correctly, I also saw tsdad’s son in our high school’s production of Little Me when I was in seventh grade. :p</p>
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<p>I put exactly that on my Parent Connector nametag at MIT’s CPW and Family Weekend events, and met a whole lot of people that way who “knew” me already. It was great. :)</p>
<p>That was very clever, mootie. Wish I’d thought of doing that at our recent trip to Vandy. However, my s would have had a stroke if I did (which would save us the 4 yrs of college tuition… hmmmm…)</p>
<p>My daughter told me that the mother of one of her college friends recognized me as the mom of my daughter by what I had posted!</p>
<p>I’ve met northeastmom, Lorelei, and garland IRL. Was supposed to meet up with Thumper but she couldn’t make it at the last minute. Hoping to meet up with a couple of others in the fall.</p>
<p>I talked to my sons admissions officer last summer at Roanoke and mentioned that I had done a complimentary review of the College here on CC and she told me she had read it! She said they all read CC. Sure am glad I said good things!</p>
<p>Eeeek! I remember all the posts I did 4 years ago about problems with scheduling interviews etc. with Rice admissions, and how DD had to call multiple times…well, I guess I’m glad if the adcoms were reading them, because it could have only improved the process. :eek: (I guess no major consequences, though! DS and DD will both be at Rice next year! )
And I was HOPING to meet with Jym626 at graduation at Rice next year, but it looks bad unless her son’s high school changes its graduation date. :(</p>
<p>Wow…I don’t think I’ve posted much about my college visits here (have I??). I know I made a few disparaging comments about a few schools and how they interacted with my DD. Oh well…perhaps if the adcoms read these things, they will tell their tour guides to dress appropriately, and use decent language on the tours…two beefs I had at schools one would not have expected.</p>
<p>Anxiousmom-
I remember your frustrations with the Rice admissions office, and how glad you ultimately were that it didn’t turn you off to the school! As for graduation… looks like S#2’s HS is keeping theirs on the date that will conflict with Rice’s graduation. Sux bigtime. They tried to move it a week, but the back-up “in case of rain” place wasn’t available. Serious bummer. Of course each of the boys offered to fail a year so that the graduations wouldn’t conflict, but I politely declined their offer :rolleyes:</p>