<p>Congrats to shawbridgeson on a fabulous grade. I’m a big Cat Stevens fan as well.</p>
<p>Jolynne’s S was a computer science major but at Thanksgiving wanted to change to archaology. Jolynne was worried about job prospects in that field. I wonder what happened with that. Missypie has your son talked any more about changing his major? I think you had similar concerns.</p>
<p>rrah- interesting that you have been wondering about some of the people who have stopped posting on this thread as I was thinking about them recently,too. </p>
<p>Going back to work today, first time since Thurs. AM. It was nice to have the time off but now I am back to reality, or maybe semi-reality as D is home (sort of when she is not at her best friend’s house). D and I saw “Nine” yesterday. We enjoyed it, but then we are kind of weird musical theater buffs, so it might not be everyone’s cup of tea.</p>
<p>Congrats to all on the great grades!</p>
<p>Don’t know about changing majors yet. I don’t think he wants to think about school.</p>
<p>Jollynne Smith is on Facebook. I’ll have to track her down.</p>
<p>H left this morning to take MIL back. I’m taking the kids shopping. Good to have MIL gone. Had a nice visit but I’m ready for it to be just US. Have off until next Monday. I’m looking forward to some nice down time with the kids. Lets hope that the shopping trip is good. S and D can get on each others nerves when we shop together. One is always too slow for the other. Guess it’s just the sibling rivalry… </p>
<p>D is still waiting on grades. Either posted today or tomorrow.</p>
<p>DD and I are also going shopping today. DS never goes with us. He is picky about his clothing, but he NEVER wants to take the time to shop so he ends up with whatever his sister and I decide will look good on him. I’m waiting for her now. We’ll head to the closest larger city. We wanted to go over the weekend, but I didn’t feel like dealing with snow and wind. It’s sunny and cold today.</p>
<p>LOL! Today is shopping day! First D has to renew her license, since it expires in March when she’ll be in NC. I can only hope the DMV isn’t too jammed – probably WAY too much to expect. Oh well, it has to be done – the reward comes after, when we hit a few stores. Even if we don’t buy anything, it’s still fun mother/daughter time.</p>
<p>S received grades – a tad higher than first term. Not outstanding, but solid. He’s holding his own, and didn’t “NR” (No Record) any classes. We’ll take it.</p>
<p>Count me in on the diet!</p>
<p>3 years ago I lost 40 pounds by counting WW points and walking 2-4 miles every single day. Took about 6 months and then I just stopped. Of course, I have put it all back on, plus 8 more.</p>
<p>I need to lose at least 50 pounds.</p>
<p>Am currently taking courses at the Red Cross in order to be on a Disaster Action Team. In our county, and then get on the database to go anywhere in the US. And I need to be healthy in order to help others. That SHOULD be great motivation for me.</p>
<p>I figure I will start counting points again and walking. Either outside or at the YMCA. </p>
<p>Should we have our own “thread” to support each other?</p>
<p>HAPPY BIRTHDAY DTE!</p>
<p>Eddie</p>
<p>I’d join in on that, too. Would like to lose 50 by my 50th!</p>
<p>Happy birthday DTE and more wishes for good health in the next year :)</p>
<p>Count me in on the diet/exercise plan. I’ll be 52 next week and ever since I hit 50, all the exercise and careful eating just helps me maintain my weight, not lose. So apparently I need to kick it up a notch -exercise more and eat even less. Sigh.</p>
<p>On a lighter note, we came home very late last night from vacation and when I got up this morning D2 (16 yr old) was nowhere to be found. I called her cell phone and found her at the local coffee shop where she had walked (a good half mile) to meet a boy! At 9 am! (She had left me a note on the kitchen counter that I missed.) I’ve heard this boy’s name several times recently so I’m not totally surprised, but this is the first hint of a boyfriend for her so it’s kinda cute.</p>
<p>Happy birthday, DTE!</p>
<p>A page back, someone mentioned they gained weight when they weren’t getting enough sleep. That’s so true for me, too. If I have a sleep debt, I’m even more unable than usual to resist constant snacking.</p>
<p>Even though I’m never, ever hungry in the morning, I find I do better if I force down some protein for breakfast. My inclination is to eat nothing in the morning (because I’m just not hungry), a little for lunch and then a big dinner and plenty of evening snacking. But starting off with an egg and toast or something gets me off that bad cycle.</p>
<p>I also need to trick myself sometimes for exercise. I don’t feel like getting out of the house, so I say I’ll just do some tiny little loop. Then, often, once I’m out I do something longer. Yesterday I couldn’t face riding my bike in the gray drizzle, so I decided to go for a little walk. I ended up on a trail I hadn’t been on in years. The top is just around the corner, I kept thinking, as the trail kept going up. Ended up doing a nine mile hike on gloriously empty trails, getting home just early enough so I could still mostly see where I was going.</p>
<p>It’s interesting how children have changed over the course of a year, isn’t it? Last year at this time we were dealing with some disappointment over deferrals to RD and hustling to complete other apps. D has gone from wanting to major in Biology to enrolling in engineering as a prospective BME major and now realizing she wants to focus on Engineering Science. Please don’t ask me to explain that one, I have absolute no idea how to. But it seemingly will accomodate her interests in studying abroad and public policy as well as engineering. </p>
<p>It seems we have enough interest in a diet/exercise/health/wellness type thread - so I am going to create one in the cafe. Hopefully everyone will head over there and we can motivate each other to stay on track.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/838576-diet-exercise-health-wellness-support-thread.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/838576-diet-exercise-health-wellness-support-thread.html</a></p>
<p>Do those of you who live in a pretty part of the world (e.g. mountains, hills, beach, lake, stream) find it easier to get exercise than those of us in flat brown/gray suburbia? Some of you have talked about getting out to cross country ski, etc. Around here, a walk is just a walk on a side walk in a neighborhood. It’s that or the treadmill. When I was pregnant with Son, we went to Monterey, CA…I thought, “This pregnancy would go so much better if I could be here all the time.”</p>
<p>I looked for missypies trees on FB I dont think I have the hang of it.</p>
<p>You have to friend me. Are we FB friends, DTE?</p>
<p>My most successful weight periods in life have been when I could walk to work. I like to have a destination for my walks. When I lived in NYC I spontaneously lost all excess weight with no effort and kept it off. I was too frugal to take a cab and didn’t like the crowdedness of the subway, so I walked everywhere from downtown to the upper east side to Brooklyn. When we moved to the burbs, I couldn’t walk to work anymore, but I used to walk to the train, walk to the park, walk to church, walk to the library etc. They have actual small towns in NJ. Here, there is no place to walk except around the boring neighborhood. It is boring and a chore. One of these days, we will move but until then, I just have to force myself to do it.</p>
<p>Wow I have missed a lot over the last week! </p>
<p>I tried to speed-read to get caught up with you all. (Realized I was speed-reading a little too speedily when I thought that one poster was worried that her daughter and boyfriend would get married in a snowbank! The word was marred! or maybe mired??)</p>
<p>So, a very belated Happy Chanukah and Merry Christmas to all and Happy Birthday to Down to Earth and your dd, too!</p>
<p>My dd made it out of CT right ahead of the storm and is now busy seeing friends and enjoying some warm SoCal weather. As each of her grades has been posted, she has to complete her evaluation to access her grade-what a smart idea!</p>
<p>TheAnalyst – I hear you. I used to walk everywhere when I worked in Philly. European cities are really walkable, too.</p>
<p>OK, I figured out FB enough to friend missypie and see photos of the trees and other decorations. Everything looks great! And, to be perfectly honest, it all looks especially great since it’s at your house and not mine! As much as I’d love having all the decorations, I really wouldn’t like (1) putting them up and (2) taking them down. All in all, photos of great decorations at someone else’s house is perfect for me. Thanks!</p>
<p>D & I survived the DMV – the line was out the door when we got there, and let me tell you, it is extremely cold and windy here today. We put off our day trip into NYC until tomorrow when it’s supposed to be a little warmer/not as windy.</p>
<p>This is a sad day</p>
<h1>boy received 3 NRs (D or lower)</h1>
<p>He cried in the shower
He has a plan - to take calc III and IV instead of Analysis (the student rescource center math folks haven’t even taken Analysis so they could not help him) He did well in the homework he says, but blew the final, a large part of the grade. Says he worked hard in that course
Says he needs to work harder in CS. Did not care for the teacher’s teaching style. Will retake the class in D term hopefully with a better work ethic and with a better tolerance for the teacher.
He totally blew Jazz Theory. Says he came in late (because he dropped one course and took this in its place) and was unable to catch up (the one problem with these very short terms). His final composition, which he thought was OK was evidently not good enough to bring his grade up. He was very disappointed.
Not sure what he will do about that one. He will need to take some different music classes. Even though his Dad is a jazz musician, maybe Jazz is just not S’s thing. I think he just needs to move on past this one.
The only silver lining is he came in with 3 full credits (though now he has no buffer) so he is not behind, and his GPA is unaffected (3.8) since he did so well last term.
He realizes he will have to work harder outside of class - whether he can apply that realization remains to be seen. He recognizes the need to get his permanent advisor who can help him with his major decisions. He is totally discouraged from Math as a major but I have tried to encourage him not give up on it yet. Analysis was a difficult row to hoe. Calc (which he has always loved) may prove more to his thinking style.
He has finished his psych testing and the psychologist is going to recommend accommodations - specifically extra time, which I think should help, because in two instances this term, it was the timed test that proved to be his downfall.
Not a happy day around here.
I think I’ll go take a shower.</p>
<p>Oh, I’m so sorry, #theorymom. Hearing about #son crying makes me want to cry. (I do hope my guy cried at some point in the process…it would make me feel better think that he cared that much.) Many hugs to you…you know I know the feeling.</p>