<p>Just an FYI: This sunday’s NYT magazine will be all college. And it’s now available online:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2007/09/28/magazine/index.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2007/09/28/magazine/index.html</a></p>
<p>Ew – those photos of Wesleyan students wearing ridiculous clothes!!</p>
<p>thanks for the link!!</p>
<p>I wonder if that CC addict is anyone we know.</p>
<p>I am considering going out to get the paper–will it make me beel better or worse??? Don’t need any more college stress.</p>
<p>You can read it online - no need to buy it! And they have gotten rid of “Times Select” so there are no longer certain articles limited to paying subscribers - anyone can view any article for free. You may have to sign up but it is free and very simple.</p>
<p>thanks, MOT-
I know I can read it online and I have an online registration, but there is something about having the NYT magazine section in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other… Fond memories. And then I can humble myself by trying to do the Sunday puzzle. I used to do the puzzle in college with a friend who went on to become a national crossword puzzle champ (featured in the movie “wordplay”). And my late mom used to do the puzzle in ink. It was mentioned at her funeral, in fact.</p>
<p>Update–DH just called- he picked up the paper for me. OK-- I’ll get the coffee going…</p>
<p>I know what you mean, jym, about actually reading the paper in person. I just wasn’t sure if you knew you could read it online, too!</p>
<p>Enjoy you coffe and paper!</p>
<p>thanks, MOT. But do I need to go find a xanax or a valium or something when I read the college section???</p>
<p>jym: Very funny, but really…I had an anxiety attack reading the article about the kids from Bronxville…HaHa</p>
<p>The Bronxville story does sound over the top. It made me glad that my kids didn’t go to a high school filled with high achieving students striving for the top schools.</p>
<p>The interview with Lloyd Thacker is the most vapid piece I’ve ever read in the Times…</p>
<p>Newspaper is on the kitchen table. Cant get myself to read it yet…</p>
<p>My heart was pounding when I read the Bronxville story. It just brought back a lot of feelings of last year. I am so glad we are going to get a 4 yr break before we have do it all over again.</p>
<p>gee, thats so reassuring, oldfort. AAAGGHHH.</p>
<p>It’s like child birth. If you have never been through it, you would never know how it feels. Some people have very easy pregnancy, some people have a lot of complications, but the intensity and emotional roller coaster is still the same. My girls are 5 years apart - that’s how long it took me to have courage to have another child.</p>
<p>oldfort-
This is the second (and thankfully LAST) college app process for us. Feels just as painful!!! Then there will be grad and/or professinal school, etc. Blech. Need a barf bag. This is going to be a bumpy ride.</p>
<p>My oldest is only in 9th grade, but I’m already nervous! Read the Times magazine online as well. We live in Spain, and kids go to a small international school, so the college counseling is nowhere near what kids at a school like the one in Bronxville get. I’m glad I stumbled upon this site–I’m sure I’ll be consulting it a lot in the next few years. It’s already helped, in fact!</p>
<p>The Bronxville story annoyed me and annoyed DD#2 (senior in HS). The girl in it who wants to be a writing major whose mother is micromanaging her apps but doesn’t think to buy her comfy dress shoes (had her test out the sleeping pad though). I figured if the family had put the money spend on summer programs plus jetting her around and had her work a little, they could have had a nice little sum in a 529 plan already. And what’s wrong with a budding writer working in college? She might just have some experiences to write about? Saying this as a mother of a budding writing major who works over summers now and part-time over the year and already asked about what sorts of jobs work-study students get as part of the fin aid package. Just my grip du jour.</p>
<p>The Bronxville story hit very close to home. Reminded me a lot of a lot my family’s been through and a lot several of the families close to me have been through. Bronxville is very very similar to the town I live in (and not too far away either). </p>
<p>But I have to admit, I don’t know of anyone who stayed up until 3:00 AM the night before the application deadline – not to mention anyone who stayed up until 3:00 AM and then went on to work on a Halloween costume. At that point, the Halloween costume would have turned into something like “I’m going as a high school senior” or “I’m going as a field hockey player” (if that’s what you do) or “I’m going as Richard Nixon” (because that’s the mask you bought!).</p>