<p>Have you parents started thinking where your student will put all of their college dorm room stuff this summer? We need to clear an area in the basement for this purpose. In my mind, most items will come into the house and directly into the basement. Not clothes or laptop, etc. But bedding and items like that.</p>
<p>I can arrange my work schedule anyway I like so I will be dropping of packing supplies to D about 3 weeks before move out date. That way she can pack her stuff before we arrive to move her out. My instructions to her will be to pack things to be stored in clearly labeled boxes so that they can go directly into the storage area in our house. We are fortunate that we are able to drive to pick her up. We will be borrowing Grandparents very large pickup truck since our full size SUV was bursting on move-in day. She has managed to stuff even more things into her dorm room. I think her clothing has multiplied in her closet. Oh, well.</p>
<p>She has secured a job for the summer, although it was her last choice. None of the jobs she had applied for came through so it will be off to the lake to work at aunt’s mini-golf course. She loves the lake and her aunt so it will be fun but she will be away from home. The lake is about 90 minutes from home. Her aunt will teach her how to run the business from top to bottom, which is a great learning experience. She was hoping to work around town this summer since it is most certain that she will begin a long term internship on campus in the fall. This was to be her last summer at home. I am somewhat sad. </p>
<p>She was home last week for spring break and started a new quarter today. Three writing intensive classes this term will be a struggle for her. Bad luck in the required class assignments. She was happy to go back and ready for the challenge. I was happy to hear that she already had the textbook for one class and the two writing classes required no textbooks. Small victory.</p>
<p>Woody… I get it! I get a kick out of him too!! Half my battle is to walk the line of keeping a good sense of humor while insisting he raise up to his potential. Sure, sometimes it’s hard to keep a straight face but you have to.</p>
<p>Ok… anyone watching Dancing with Stars? Kate Gosselin (however you spell that) have to go. She is a trainwreck to watch interact as well as dance. UGH!</p>
<p>Moda, hate to say it but I think our sons in many respects were twins separated at birth. That totally sounds like the kind of thing he would do! And he would also insist that I didn’t get mad when he slipped it casually into conversation so assumed it was no big deal. </p>
<p>D is busy planning her schedule for fall. They have to declare their major- then register- then find out if they’ve been accepted to their major after the fact. I’m just crossing my fingers. Not much else I can do. After she broke down and called me we were chatting about scheduling and I reminded her of a course she had deferred so she could take Chem II- well, of course she had forgotten so now the schedule has to be reworked before she meets with her advisor. Yikes. And then hope he approves.</p>
<p>D just called walking from library to dorm (almost midnight there) to tell us she feels “a lot of love” from her professors just now: two of her profs outside her (not yet but probably to be declared chemistry) major have urged her to consider majoring in their departments (namely, math and dance) and her bio teacher told her to consider doing research on campus next summer. (D already committed to coming home this summer.) Pretty sweet.</p>
<p>Zetesis
Pretty sweet is right!
I would give anything to hear something like that from S.
To hear ANYthing form S actually</p>
<p>The Modason does sound like he is one with the fun ; )</p>
<p>So serendipity of the day alert in McSon’s bizarre world: This child is the luckiest unlucky guy I know. So he finally hauls his butt to his academic counselor to hatch an evil plot for next year, accommodations letter in hand. With his particular flavor of ADD research estimates 5% make it to college. The admission range at his school is pretty high, so even less likelihood of there being many other McSons around.
Meets with his academic counselor and LOW AND BEHOLD if the guy assigned to him doesn’t have the exact same dx as McSon. I mean, what are the freakin odds of that? </p>
<p>So McSon is in 7th heaven b/c prof tells him all the tricks to make it work, has him lighten schedule to 15 credits (was at 18) and gives him an exercise & meditation skedder that he himself uses, etc. etc. PLUS said prof is highly distinguished in McSon’s desired field. Just too weird. Truth is stranger than fiction. Very happy for him. The goddess is the queen of tragi-comedy around here. Hi ho.</p>
<p>I have to say that Modadunn’s S reminds me of stories of my husband and his friends during their college days. Lots of pranks, somehow six bright minds can get into all kinds of trouble. Jump forward 30 years and they are successful doctors, lawyers and engineers. </p>
<p>Their stories are quite entertaining, certainly for our kids. I hope for a little spark of mischievousness in the next generation, perhaps not to the degree that dh and friends took it to. It was a good thing that their parents didn’t know what they were up to most of the time.</p>
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<p>I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone dance as badly on that show. LOL that her partner wanted to quit because she was telling him how he should be teaching her. So Perfectly Kate!</p>
<p>McK - How cool for McSon! This could be the start of a beautiful friendship!</p>
<p>Hooray for Mcson! That is wonderful! Now we just need to send good thoughts and prayers for CF’s S, Missypie’s S, #theory’s S so they find a good mentor to help them find their way and reach their potential! Did I forget anyone??? Moda…sorry to say I laughed too! With just a $35 fine I don’t think the school thinks the incident was a major infraction.</p>
<p>Ah, not to be morally wishy-washy, but aren’t the things like breaking into the cafeteria only wrong if you get caught? This is going to brand me as even nerdier than you already think I am, but one time in law school I was able to climb into an unlocked window in a closed building to make sure an assignment was turned in by midnight. Utterly harmless (and again, way nerdy) but it wouldn’t have been so great if someone had called the campus police.</p>
<p>kmc, fabulous news.</p>
<p>Sorry, guys. H and I were watching DWTS last night. H turned to me and said sleeping would be better than this. I agreed and we went to bed.</p>
<p>DTWS is the perfect thing to record…we watched the whole 2 hour show in about half an hour.</p>
<p>kmc–that is heartwarming, sometimes the universe provides… so glad for your son!</p>
<p>zetesis–impressive, way to go for your d!</p>
<p>missy–funny about your climbing in the window, my s called after midnight last night, he and project partner had just delivered an econometrics paper due at midnight (school has an honor code and buildings are unlocked) so no break in required. they leave their laptops sitting in the library for hours while they come and go…pretty neat</p>
<p>Excellent idea, Missypie!</p>
<p>D2 gave me her copy of The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. Read it last night. Not really my type of book but I have to say it did make me cry! At least I will now have the knowledge to discuss some teen pop culture with her! ;)</p>
<p>All this good news… congrats to McSon on the mentor; this is ideal for taking the parent out of the equation and in the hands of someone who has been there and done that. Good for him!!</p>
<p>Talked to Dean today on the phone. This letter means that the level of infraction was severe enough to warrant him “flagged” and could play a role if he should get in trouble again. He swears the doors were not locked and his “mistake” was mostly one of getting caught but he promises he will never do it again. I insisted he go and talk to the dean personally, since that wasn’t part of it originally. It’s not like I can ground him or something. And I do think she cares about the kids and giving him that sense of accountability will be good for him. Unfortunately, she also said that out of 125 freshman under her charge, she’s only had to meet formally with about a dozen of them (my son included) so it’s sort of a bigger deal. But they don’t have a hierarchy of rules that this would fall into a class I or II (you know what I mean?), so I still didn’t get a handle on how concerned SHE might be. Hopefully by meeting with her, he will really get that if he continues on a bonehead path (like getting another citation for drinking or something) he would find himself with a lot more issue. This stays in his record throughout the next four years, so that’s not good either.</p>
<p>Closet was a lot more expensive than I anticipated, and she went about 500 over my budget… why give people a budget if they’re not going to follow it? But I went ahead with it hoping it will give me a HUGE sense of organization that is lacking.</p>
<p>Great news for McSon and Zetisis D! Wonderful when the universe conspires to make good things happen.</p>
<h1>TM, I’m with you - would just like to hear from S. He’s almost a week late in his commitment to weekly phone calls, but will be home tomorrow night. Did hear through my DIL that he got into a triple next year at a brand new dorm and he’s happy about that. Now, if only he was in front of me right now so I could grill him about the summer plans… ;)</h1>