Last kids to return

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<p>My D leaves tomorrow for her soph year of college. Her school should be just about the last to start. I’m sad, DH is sad, even bro is going to miss her - now we know just how much we will miss her, and just how long it will take to get back into a routine without her.</p>

<p>I get to put off saying good-bye for awhile, I’m flying up with her to rent a car and provide chauffeuring/moving assistance. Maybe next time she will have pared down her belongings enough, and have enough friends with cars, that we won’t have to go as well.</p>

<p>Long faces around my house for a few days.</p>

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<p>Mine doesn’t go back until the middle of next week, although she’s travelling now and she’ll only be home about 16 hours between now and then. Her first day of classes is the 24th.</p>

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<p>I can beat both of you…first day of real class for me is October 2nd</p>

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<p>Wow, S started class on Aug. 23rd. Is the late start due to the quarter system?</p>

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<p>Yeah, quarters/terms</p>

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<p>Stanford starts on September 25th. It’s hard for the kids whose friends have already been gone for a while, I think. Of course, the early start leads to an early finish!</p>

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<p>I drop my son off in Pasadena tomorrow for a week of orientation and school starts on the 25th. He wanted to have some sort of get together with friends before he left so tonight we’re having a few of his friends over(so many people couldn’t come its going to be very small). I knew if we had people over tonight, I could insist he get packed early. And I didn’t want the two of us just sitting around tonight crying.<br>
Any suggestions from anyone on how to manage drop off day? We’re getting in at around 10. He’ll check in and they have a brief parent orientation in the afternoon and then the convocation. My plan is to help him get his stuff to his room and then leave him to get settled in, I’ve never taken any photos of the campus (somehow when we were touring colleges this was the one campus we took zero pictures of) so I plan on just walking around campus taking pictures then attend the orientation & convocation and then hopefully grab him for a quick goodbye and head home.<br>
Good luck to everyone taking their kids to college this weekend.</p>

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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>Can you tell me who I can chat with about teens calling home (or should I say not calling home)? Thanks-</p>

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<p>Lynne,
I think its really common for kids not to call home…the two summers my son was on the other side of the country attending summer programs he hardly called at all. The first summer, after 3 weeks and not hearing from him, I finally called the office at the dorm and left a message that he had to call home. The second summer, he brought a laptop and had internet access. It was so much better - he would email me every week or so. Can you email?</p>

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<p>Lynne,
Go to the parent’s forum and read the thread “We miss him, maybe he doesn’t miss us”. It will give you lots of information and insight…</p>

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<p>Lynne, there was another similar thread about getting students to call home:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=234804[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=234804&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;