<p>ZIm - so excited for you!! Enjoy the trip and keep us posted as you can.</p>
<p>Zim…Have fun on your trip and enjoy your time with S! What an adventure!</p>
<p>So D2 heard that she has been placed in the Women’s Transfer House for next year. It is a house directly across the street from campus and it is part of Res Life. 11 young women in the house in doubles and triples, full kitchen, laundry, internet, cable and utilities included. She didn’t ask to be placed here but it is supposedly a sought after placement. According to letter “This transfer House will provide an opportunity for a cohort of transfer students to develop a community that will assist with their transition to the university.” I think it is better than being in a small dorm room since she has already experienced life in an on campus apt but she was interested in rooming with another friend of hers. She does have the option of trying to get in to another on campus apt if one is available. What do you think…better to bond with transfer girls trying to figure out a new campus or be in a dorm with already established groups???</p>
<p>If she already has a friend on campus, I would stay with the transfer house since that could give her the best of both worlds. She will have certain things in common with the transfer girls and can help introduce them around through her other friend as well.</p>
<p>NM, the transfer house sounds like a great placement to me!</p>
<p>Odessagirl had her last day of classes today. My, how time flies. Now for finals. She is not stressed at all about them - just doing her regular thing. Homework every night, checks to see what is due tomorrow and the next day, etc. Just keeping everything up to date and studying.</p>
<p>I like the transfer house idea, too. The friend she was thinking about rooming with was a transfer in for spring semester who is currently living at home as there wasn’t available housing for her after Christmas. Thought she would have signed up in the regular housing lottery but looks like she didn’t which is a little strange to me. Oh, well. The ball is in her court…I’m not saying anything to her at this point! She also had her phone interview/appt with academic advisor this morning and got her class registration done. Hopefully she gets what she wants. (Accounting , Theology, Art History and Calculus) All of the classes are school core or major requirements. Said she requested 8:00 am classes Mon-Friday! That made me cringe!</p>
<p>So D2 is thinking of Accounting and/or Finance as majors.You have to have 150 hrs in credits to graduate with an accounting degree. Wow! How do you do that in 4 years with all of the other requirements!!! Other degrees are 132 credits…four classes per semester plus one J term. So even if you took all four J terms you would only have 144 credits. The university recommends only taking 4 classes per semester. Guess they want you to go to summer school or an extra semester!</p>
<p>I agree with the transfer house as having the best of both worlds. I don’t like, however, that her friend didn’t go into the regular housing lottery and might potentially guilt NMD to make another decision. Not much you can do about it but I would caution against rooming with friends whom you dont really know in the context in which one is living. AKA… they have never gone to college before together. Just an opinion and I am sure it works out all the time. However, I like that this transfer house may give her an instant group to branch out from rather than living on the twig with little room to flourish.</p>
<p>NM, that is a lot of credit hours. I remember feeling very upset when I found out that the 56 credit hours required for my masters degree was a lot more hours than required at other programs that my employer considered to be identical. I just looked and noticed that same degree program now only requires 48 credit hours. Ha! I feel cheated all over again. </p>
<p>All of which is to say, accounting is a great degree to have but I do not believe you should have to take 150 credit hours to get that degree. I think Virginia Tech only requires 125 credit hours for a degree in accounting. A friend of our older son is graduating this year. He had an internship with a big six accounting firm in NYC last summer and has been hired by them upon graduation.</p>
<p>That is a LOT of credits. But same thing happened to me - 60 credit Masters is now 45. University compensated by saying extra 15 could now be put to PhD. Haha! like that will ever happen!</p>
<p>According to the news, a student was murdered last night at UVA by another student. Both were about to graduate. How terribly tragic.</p>
<p>OMG, I just looked it up. They were both gorgeous.</p>
<p>[Anderson</a> Cooper 360: Blog Archive - UVA Lacrosse Player Killed, Another Player Charged - CNN.com Blogs](<a href=“http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/03/uva-lacrosse-player-charged-with-murder/]Anderson”>http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/03/uva-lacrosse-player-charged-with-murder/)</p>
<p>What a horrific thing for both families. Hard to imagine how numb both families would be.</p>
<p>It’s really hard to believe. I can’t imagine what both families must be going through. I spoke to D today and she indicated some level of stress over it. For a community that is truly based on trust it’s horrific to think that one of their own is responsible for such a senseless end to really, two lives.</p>
<p>So very sad and tragic. Prayers for both families.</p>
<p>how sad. I just hate to hear about these things. So young…</p>
<p>Talked to #TS today - he called, just like he texted me he would, at noon.
I wanted to know if he needed me to call on some storage companies and he said (gasp) that he had it handled. He also said he realized a small error he made on his computer programming final that was going to screw the entire program up. He went right into the prof, but she said there was nothing she would allow him to do about it, so now he thinks he will have another NR this term. He said he planned to go into Advising prior to receiving the grade to talk to them about this class (that he will now have failed twice and twice because of a small error - but them’s the breaks in programming it seems - at least in this class - same class/same teacher/failed twice) In some ways it would seem that if a student came to you immediately after handing something in and said I realize an error I made that will cause the program not to run you might give him a chance to fix it, but, I guess not in this case. So he may be screwed. I am trying to figure out if he will be on academic probation given his 2nd quarter’s abyssmal performance. Or what any of it means as far has continuing there. Sounds like he feels he has done well in all his math courses and that is the direction he wants to go, but if he can’t fulfill the other requirements for a degree there, I am not sure what the answer will be. I guess we have to wait for grades to see. If he is very lucky, he will squeak by in this course - but he does not think so. The good news is he is actually talking to us about it. Before he hid it all, from everyone, including I think, himself. Head in the sand type idea. I think now he is coming to terms with things, and actually trying to form plans and articulating them. This is a good thing at least. So cross your fingers everyone. I’ve crossed everything I know how to cross. Has one more final tomorrow, then has to pack his room and get his stuff to storage the next day, then fly home the next.</p>
<h1>TM, I hope everything works out. It’s good that he’s sharing with you instead of burying it all inside. Is this the only prof that teaches the course? Seems too bad that he had to repeat with the same person he didn’t click with the first time.</h1>
<p>D was up until 4 am with a paper and a “practice” final exam they reviewed in Multi today. So a presentation and final on Thursday, then a break until Tuesday with Physics (blech) then two more finals next Thursday. Nice that it’s spread out a bit. Oh, and packing the rest of her crap and headed off to beach week. </p>
<p>I’d like to know when the Parents of the College Class of 2013 get our beach week! I’d say we all deserve one. Or two. And a large margarita or your beverage of choice.</p>
<h1>TM, that just doesn’t seem right. I can see getting points taken off, but I sure hope one error would not cause a failure for the whole class. I’m glad to hear your S is handling the situation with great maturity. Keeping my fingers crossed that it all works out. My S would be going postal.</h1>
<h1>TM-Sorry to hear about that, it doesn’t seem right, especially since he talked to her right away. I hope it works out for him.</h1>
<p>I’m in for the beach week. Prefer margarita. Frozen, please.</p>
<p>I find it really harsh that one mistake could have a kid failing unless there were some additional mistakes made throughout the term and he really needed to ace this final project. Will cross my fingers, but they are already crossed for my own kid! Well, kinda.</p>
<p>I know it’s common place for some, but he’s pulled his first legitimate all nighter when he realized he made a mistake in some graph which was then repeated throughout his entire final Bio project. He thought he was done early and then just on a fluke caught the mistake and then spent the entire night rewriting the whole report based on completely new data he was dealing with. Seriously? I don’t have a clue what he is talking about half the time and usually just go by his tone of voice. What I find interesting, if you will, was that the 3 A’s and a high B of a few weeks ago have now emerged into “the best case scenario.” So I asked what’s the worst case scenario and somehow he managed to evade the question then have to go. </p>
<p>I was thinking that the freshman year is hard hard hard. The first part of fall semester is learning the ropes of college… then you’re kind of making up ground coming into finals, and the end of spring is hard because… well, if you’re going to school where the winter is FINALLY gone, there are way more distractions… and hormones. Anyway… hopefully we’ll see some evidence of maturing but I remain unconvinced. I tried to help him out with storage but he kept putting me off so I said, “I trust you guys can work it out” and will.</p>