<p>FlMathMom: So sorry to hear about your rough wekeend.</p>
<p>MOSB: Love the story and picture in my mind of you taking food up on a tray to a daughter writing away. Sending best wishes your way.</p>
<p>I’ve decided to make Boston Cream Pie for Pi Day. I’m sure it won’t come close to the “real” one we had last February in Cambridge, but it will be the thought that counts, right? (Shh, don’t tell anyone that I’m doing an “easy” version with cake mix and pudding mix. I do need to get some work done tomorrow!) Less than 24 hours now. Time for bed.</p>
<p>FlMathmom, how gracious of you to respond so quickly and kindly to my post about sb when you’ve had a difficult weekend yourself.</p>
<p>I am glad for the 3 you have and VERY hopeful for wonderful news from the 3 you’re waiting for. You’re the best, and I’m hoping for excellent news for your son!</p>
<p>Wow, I missed a lot this weekend! Had a very busy week, crazy weekend and another crazy week ahead. Am in CA on work - will very likely not be able to check this thread very often Congratulations to all those who heard good news and hugs to those who didn’t! </p>
<p>We haven’t heard from any of D’s other schools yet and the knot in my stomach is getting tighter and tighter. When I left this morning, she gave me a hug and said “I’ll miss you”. I responded that I was going to be gone for only a week (have done this before several times). Her answer - “I’ll miss you this week and next year, when I am gone at college. Whom will I hug?” I really didn’t need to hear that just before I left :(</p>
<p>Emmybet - glad to hear that your Japanese D’s family is ok. ldinct - glad S is ok after running into the pole!</p>
<p>Happy Pi day everybody! Good luck to those of you waiting for big news today from MIT and other schools. I’m sure that this thread will be bursting with news later today and all week and am hoping it will be all good!</p>
<p>ONe of d’s two colleges with 15 March releases is in the mail and in state students got their news on Saturday So it really could be today. It is a school that has really risen up in her view and it now one of her top choices. The other school with March 15 release dats I think announces online.</p>
<p>Happy Pi Day! Good luck to the MIT applicants.</p>
<p>Flmathmom: I’m sorry about the disapointing news. Your son applied to some very small, very selective programs. I hope that you get some good news this week to add to the acceptances he already has. I’m glad that you followed proper CC strategy so he’s set no matter what else happens. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for good news.</p>
<p>MOSB: How exciting that your daughter has narrowed it down to 2 schools. It sounds like she put serious effort into the honors college application. That type of motivation will serve her well no matter where she lands. I hope it works out for her.</p>
<p>Novelisto: The prom shoes sound fabulous. </p>
<p>Thanks for the interest in my daughter’s prom dress. The dress is multiple shades of blue. I will post pictures after the prom in May. I have too much Jewish superstition to post them now.</p>
<p>Good luck to all those MIT hopefuls and anyone else who’s getting decisions any day now!! MOSB - you have a fine daughter, wish I had someone with that sort of determination to do their best, give their all, know what they want and work for it!<br>
Right now, you know, I have something different on my hands, that’s right the Mighty Procrastinator who had a Starbucks/video gaming night with the boys Fri, Sat: lesson, work, party. Sun: hanging with a girl till 9 pm - followed by ALL NIGHTER to finish (ahem, I mean start and finish) Great Expectations in time for exam this am. AAARGGGGHHH. And I want to “invest” in this? Think I need to chop some more wood today to get this out of my system.</p>
<p>Amanda: Would you really rather have a son who spent all weekend doing homework? Next year you won’t have to witness the procrastination! Keep chopping wood.</p>
<p>Good luck to the MIT hopefuls…sending good thoughts!</p>
<p>H told me to stop reading ‘these message boards’, said it was stressing me out too much. Had to correct him - said this is what is helping keep me calm! haha</p>
<p>News will definitely be hot and heavy from now on - my best wishes to everyone.</p>
<p>It’s pretty official, that our Japanese visitor will be with us at least several more days. Her family is still evacuated, living with relatives, and flights just aren’t available. The poor kid! She is being lovely about this, but I can’t imagine being in her situation. Our Japanese D is doing OK, trying to have faith everything is OK, but whenever they watch the news they know things are very scary over there. </p>
<p>I wish I had better ways to help my D, too. She exhausted, and things won’t get much better for a few more weeks yet. She’s not even thinking about college news, just trying to get through her commitments and trying to have fun. I remember this teeth-gritting period with D1, remember it a bit from my own senior year. </p>
<p>While everyone is personally basically happy and healthy around here, it’s hard having so much upheaval going on - close to and far from home. We’re definitely in day-to-day mode at our house.</p>
<p>I’ll second the gratefulness I have to have followed the CC credo of apply early/hear early. D has 4 acceptances, and that has really helped as we wait for the other 7. I can’t imagine what her stress level would be if she were still wondering “if” she’s going to get into college at all.</p>
<p>Amandak, you have a great son! He’s just expressing the multiple aspects of his wonderful personality and varied interests (albeit at a time that is driving you nuts).</p>
<p>Good luck to those still waiting on decisions. It is so exciting to hear.<br>
AK- the all nighter for your S is exactly why I am insisting on D at least trying to live on campus her first year. I don’t want to know when she is skipping classes, pulling all nighters or wasting time. She will learn, as H and I did in our day, how to manage her time and work load. “What the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve.”</p>
<p>Amandakayak: My daughter is probably going to be attending Pitt as an engineering major also. We’re flying up this coming weekend for the Admitted Honors’ Students day and will be spending the weekend exploring the campus and city. My daughter told me to take the checkbook as she wants to go ahead and pay the enrollment fee at the end of the visit if all goes as planned. If you head up there for a visit with your son, we’ll have to compare notes and impressions! He will make it and you will make it! Spring of senior year can be trying for all, but it usually all falls beautifully into place!</p>
<p>EmmyBet – I’m sure your Japanese D is grateful to be with you…even if her heart yearns to embrace her family. I’m just glad her arrangement to go home didn’t have her leaving the day before the earthquake, finding her stranded in some airport somewhere. You’ve made it just a little easier to bear, I’m sure.</p>
<p>My d’s shoulder is coming along nicely…they kept telling her it would hurt a whole lot but it doesn’t seem to. ‘Twinges’ a bit. The hard thing is finding clothes she can wear as she is a little bit of a fashionista and hates to leave the house looking…well…like me! </p>
<p>Keeping my fingers crossed for good news – though that doesn’t seem to have worked very well for the boarding schools! Apparently, they’ve decided she’s ready for college!</p>
Congratulations to all those who heard good news and hugs to those who didn’t! </p>