<p>oh, so sorry crazymom–any bump in the road is a pain right now. :(</p>
<p>Even though I told myself I wasn’t going to, I just had to go to the USNWR website and look at the rankings…I spent the better part of my lunch hour looking at the rankings of possible schools for my rising junior. I’m hopeless.</p>
<p>I’m right there with you missypie…i did the same thing for my rising junior!</p>
<p>Hi! Back from trip to D2’s university. Got in at 4 am. Glad I made the trip. I had tears when she was introduced in the starting line-up. What a surprise…she never told us! She played well and soccer appears to be ok. She was still subdued and not herself with me but laughing with girls on team. Maybe only shows her homesickness for me??? I am thinking this has more to do with boyfriend.</p>
<p>Starting lineup? That is so cool!</p>
<p>Jolynne, thanks for the suggestion about Skype. We just set it up on my computer, and S’s and H’s. We’ve been having fun playing with it. S leaves on Sunday.</p>
<p>D is on the second leg of her flight now. She was at O’Hare for a couple of hours, and apparently paid for wi-fi access, and we spent 20 minutes IMing each other. Made me happy.</p>
<p>Aww, Zetesis - that is very sweet. Best wishes for her happy landing.</p>
<p>It’s so good for them to have these “flying alone” experiences (at least when things go smoothly). I don’t think I took a flight by myself until I was practicing law.</p>
<p>Yeah, sweet :-)… She has done a lot of flying with us, and has flown alone before. I’m just glad this first trip has gone smoothly. </p>
<p>The first time our older daughter flew alone (her first trip home from college at Christmas) she IMed to ask, “What do I say to the counter agent?” I actually wrote her a script. On the trip back to college, she got stranded in O’Hare, found a bunch of girls from her college in the same boat, and they all got a hotel together. A few experiences like that have made her a pretty seasoned traveler…</p>
<p>When we were in NY, D16 wanted to see *West Side Story *and D13 wanted to see a different show. I told D16 that she could see *West Side Story *by herself if she wanted because it was right next to our hotel. She opted not to and told me that she was amazed that I would even consider letting her be out and about in NY by herself. She had to laugh when we got to NY and she saw that our hotel door was about 5 steps away from the door to West Side Story.</p>
<p>Anyone else having trouble getting on this site today? It is taking forever to load for me. No problems with other sites.</p>
<p>D2 picked up her books today. She will miss first two days of classes as she will be out of town with team. Plans on emailing profs to introduce self and see if she can pick up syllabus from each class to get started on reading and whatever. Hopefully it all works out.</p>
<p>Good luck to Zetesis D!!! Good to hear from you historymom…hope the twins launch well! Thanks missypie…it was cool! H was devastated that he wasn’t there. D2 never tells us stuff like that.</p>
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<p>It takes a very together young person to play a sport and succeed in college! If Son had to miss his first two days of classes, I’d be down there going in his place. </p>
<p>I really wish there was a sticky thread where parents whose kids are considering playing a sport in college could get wisdom and advice from those who are already there.</p>
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<p>Speaking as one who’s often on the other end of such requests, I do think that profs appreciate the heads up and are typically happy to help, especially when the situation justifies it. I post all syllabi (or syllabuses, if you prefer) and handouts to a Moodle site; and often profs will email material if they don’t post it. )</p>
<p>As long as the student doesn’t return to class and say, “I wasn’t here last time; did I miss anything?” I’m always tempted to say something rude like, ‘No, of course no; we put the entire class on hold since you weren’t here.’</p>
<p>missypie…the new recruited athlete forum on this site does help.</p>
<p>Zetisis…thanks for the heads up and affirmation that her decision to contact profs is a good idea. She was a little nervous about contacting them before school starts.</p>
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<p>In reading this, I did too! 
Congrats. that is a huge deal.</p>
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<p>there’d be little question that I would be saying exactly this.</p>
<p>Best news of the day was that the bathroom in the boys’ suite is cleaned by housekeeping. Lord knows it would be disgusting if left to six boys.</p>
<p>Had a horrible time getting online all day to this site AND to USNWR - which I am scoping for D15. In fairness, she is the one that keeps asking me where I think she should go to school. I think she needs something a little bit bigger than S (a lot bigger probably) so it’s worth the looking. </p>
<p>Space bags… how flat do things get? my vacuum cleaner hose doesn’t fit - so much for “universal” hose connector. In any event, I have to check it out some more, but so far mine doesn’t seem to compress things too much. I don’t think needing a whole new vacuum cleaner is in the budget.</p>
<p>My oldest daughter was a D1 swimmer at USC for four years. It is hard to be a successful student and athlete. She was out of town during season for meets, missed classes, and had in the neighborhood of 30 hours of training per week (two practices a day M-F and one on Sat, plus weights, conditioning, running). It was pretty much classes, training, homework. The good news is that most colleges have strong tutoring and academic assistance for athletes – but it takes good time management skills and commitment to juggle it all. For her, it meant virtually no social life during college. She is now graduated and is making up for lost time. I would also recommend contacting the professors and keeping them updated on your sports commitments. My D found them to be quite accommodating (with one exception) as long as she was proactive in keeping them informed about her schedule and any issues. I’d be happy to talk with any parent of an incoming college athlete.</p>
<p>After a marathon of driving (on my part – he slept most of the way) S is back home from his summer job. Move-in day is Sunday. Let the packing begin!!! Oh, but first I have several loads of laundry to do …</p>
<p>Modadunn…computer connection prolems must be related to our lousy weather!!!</p>
<p>Thanks IMHopeful…she is a really good student who hates to miss class. Good at time management. Will see how it works out with the DI sport and strong academic expectations.</p>
<p>5 days to go. My D is fine, although quite possibly the slowest packer in the history of the suitcase. But me? I’m a great big weepy oversentimental mess. </p>
<p>The other night I had an awful dream that we got there and her room was a disaster and her roommate was nasty. Isn’t SHE supposed to be having the anxiety dreams??</p>
<p>And here I thought I was going to be such a cool, collected, nonchalant parent. Just goes to show that you can know your own mind without knowing your own heart.</p>