<p>Some time this afternoon, a weather record held since 1925 (!!) will be broken: the most days in a year where the high temperature is over 100 degrees. We tied the record yesterday at 69 days in this calendar year. Today we will break it at 70 days and there’s no end in sight. Our 7-day weather last night showed 105, 104, 104, 103, 103, 104 . . . Adding to that, we are nearly 12 full inches behind on annual rainfall. It’s really awful.</p>
<p>On the other hand, each day that passes is one day closer to the first cold front! :)</p>
<p>BI…are they really not allowed extension cords? Sheesh! I will look at the dorm web site again. Kiddo has one surge portector/cord for the desk where the lap top and monitor etc will live…yet for the fridge and standing lamp Its an extension cord with a power strip attached…</p>
<p>sigh</p>
<p>I did check After Dh bought the fridge…thankfully no CF size restrictions there.
Checked -in for the airline and paid for the bags!! Yikes.
My DH had no comment when I said we needed to take tools/measuring tape etc. </p>
<p>You, my CC friends, know that everyone will be happy to have those tools/scissors etc and the drinks/snacks etc…yet right now they all think the wife/mom has lost it with the “planning”</p>
<p>Thinking of all of your frantic move ins and driving in the rain, that would add an additional wrinkle as most of my stuff was not packed with waterproof in mind. Latest models show it moving out to sea earlier - hope that is the case. We have had quite enough rain here! </p>
<p>Cgpm - wish I could send the rain your way! </p>
<p>Poor dd1 and dd2 will be at HS band camp in PA so I hope it does swing way out to sea - it’s a typical rustic camp so it will be a muddy mess everywhere.</p>
<p>fogfog - yes, ds couldn’t have extention cords either.</p>
<p>Our school only allows power strips, too. I can understand it, and I’m glad their info was clear.</p>
<p>Weather dot com is placing the storm to hit the NYC area right during our move-in Sunday: sometime between Sat night and Mon morning. I’m bringing our big bag of ponchos! I don’t mind getting wet, but I’m hoping we can keep her stuff dry, at least, and I can’t imagine carrying bags and boxes and juggling an umbrella.</p>
<p>At least I’m pretty sure we won’t be driving in the rain. We’ll get to Long Island on Friday night, and presumably we’ll be able to have our city excursion Saturday (we’re seeing a matinee), even if it’s icky. We were planning on heading to MA for a family visit on Monday, but we might go west instead. We’ll make that decision when the time comes.</p>
<p>Who ever thought this would be part of the planning???</p>
<p>Emmybet, my sister told me there will be upper classman to help move the kids stuff to their dorms so you shouldn’t have to juggle the umbrella. In fact, forget about an umbrella - the wind will be too stong probably to do any good other than turning you into a flying projectile. </p>
<p>Re power strips. I was told to bring several. Also told to bring two lamps - one being a floor lamp as sometimes the desk is not near the students bed and if they like to read in bed or work on laptop the desk lamp won’t do any good.</p>
<p>DS’s school only allows power strips too. Fortunately there were plugs close to everywhere he needed to put stuff, so we found cheap but suitable powerstrips at Lowe’s with shortish cords (3’ I think) that did the trick. 2/$6 and he needed 3 of them (near the desk, near the bed, and for the fridge, which was near the roommate’s desk plug, so we didn’t want to use up one of his outlets.) We planned to take the 4th home but I think we left it there. Oh well, he can probably make a friend by sharing it ;-)</p>
<p>Classes started today – now the “fun” really begins!</p>
<p>DS brought his desk lamp from home even though his room came with one. He put it on the dresser by his bed so he could use it for reading in bed. We had pre-ordered a floor lamp site-to-store at Walmart but returned it instead of picking it up, because his room didn’t need it. We were told that there were no overhead lights and the kids would need them, but each side of the room had a wall-lamp that seemed to provide plenty of general illumination.</p>
<p>**The next new student move-in is Marquette University, Bryn Mawr, and Reed College move-ins on August 24th - today!
Move-in day is TODAY! Where did the summer go? :eek:
[ul][<em>]Willamette move-in on August 25th is just 1 day to go.
[</em>]Georgetown University, Champlain College, Elon University, Yale University, and SUNY Potsdam move-ins on August 26th are just 2 days to go.
[<em>]Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, California Lutheran University, Sarah Lawrence College, Tulane University, Lebanon Valley College, and Loyola University of Maryland move-ins on August 27th are just 3 days to go.
[</em>]University of Pennsylvania (Wharton - Penn Quest program), MYU (Stern- BPE), Adelphi University, RIT Honors, and Northeastern University move-ins on August 28th are just 4 days to go.
[<em>]Trinity College, Boston University (FYSOP), and Columbia University move-ins on August 29th are just 5 days to go.
[</em>]Tufts and Williams College move-ins are on August 31st are just 1 week to go.[/ul]</p>
<p>The last new student move-ins are the University of Oregon and the University of Southern Oregon on September 22nd
Move-in day in 30 days. Just under a month to go for the final move-ins.</p>
<p>emily - you have a connection at Adelphi? Neat!</p>
<p>I searched 3 closets and the basement and found my bag o’ ponchos. The move-in tips thread recommended them, and I do, too. Not only do they free up your hands, but you can put what you’re carrying under them, too. </p>
<p>I like the stories of “two trips and we were done.” We’re going to need about 4 extra people to make that happen, so I do hope there are helpers. But - it’ll be over before we know it, and we can have a good laugh afterwards. We’ll all remember this move-in weekend on the east coast!</p>
<p>Ss is another school that does not allow extension cords but it was very clear on the residential life website. The power strip was used fairly early in the move in process since one of the first things S wanted to do is set up his computer. Two other things that we would suggest for top of pile items a waste basket or trash bags so that you have a place to throw things away as you are unpacking and sponges /paper towels that can be used to wipe off areas. Ss dorm did not provide waste baskets in the rooms. The room was pretty clean, but there were a few areas where a little extra wipedown helped.</p>
<p>I’m glad you mentioned the power strip thing vs. extension cord. I looked at the list from Son’s school and it says
but it doesn’t list extension cords as not being allowed. hmmm. He does have two power strips, and it looks like they both have surge protectors. Moving along here…</p>
<p>Glad to hear the weather hasn’t done more than get people wet. My dad (he and mom newly moved to Virginia) said the quake just shook their window-blinds a little.</p>
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Hmm, our whole situation is different from most, so hard to say if we are doing what’s best. D wants to come home about once a week for dinner/laundry/watching Dexter. We figure it’s silly to pretend she’s 1000 miles away, when we drive through campus several times a week anyway. I have thought that if she doesn’t seem to be integrating, we might need to cut down. Although that might just mean she spends more time with bf (who is at the same U and even more anti-social than her!) </p>
<p>Oh, and on a lighter note, you mentioned the internet being older then our freshman kids. I remember being in grad school while pregnant with D and part of my TA duties were to sit in the computer lab several hours a week and make sure no one carried off equipment. There was a class in the lab on using Mosaic (the earliest web browser), so I actually do remember the web being older than her! (I also remember them warning students not to download the widely available pornography–times don’t change that much!)</p>
<p>kinderny, congrats to your dad and his bride – how wonderful!</p>
<p>Proudmom, yours was the first move-in I could visualize, as D visited Pomona and Pitzer and did an overnight there. Of course my hippy child preferred Pitzer (though neither school returned the love!) The students we met on both campuses were wonderful and D enjoyed her drop-in classes. Sounds like your son is already fully integrated!</p>
<p>On the baby-sleeping stuff – yeah, there’s a reason she’s a hippy child. We did the co-sleeping with a sidecar crib. Maybe that’s why she wants to come home once a week!</p>
<p>Lucky you! You have Dallas beat. (There is always someone more miserable!) We’ve passed 57, with at least another week in sight. Our record (from 1980) is also 69. Folks from other parts of the county: High School football starts this weekend. For some of you “football weather” means bundling up. For us (and very seriously, for the players and coaches), it’s surviving the heat. It’s actually worse for the freshman and JV games, because they start at 5 pm (before dark). When D cheers at tomorrow’s JV game, it should be 106.</p>
<p>I hope it works our for her—yet if she feels left out and that the roommate is making all the friends…she may have to try more to feel like she is 1000 miles from home and not a local.</p>
<p>Does the school have a lot of kids who routinely go home weekends?</p>
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<p>fwiw, A “freshman/advice newspaper” came from kiddo’s U and one article/item repeatedly discussed making friends…“Make a friend, repeat…etc”
I keep telling kiddo that there are tons of people at school–some in the dorms, some in the major and that the inital meeting/friending doesn’t even mean they will be BFF come spring term…</p>
<p>Only Circuit Breaker Surge Protectors are approved for dorm room use and no extension cords are permitted at DS’s school. Surge Protectors may not be daisy chained to each other. Seems to be a fairly universal requirement/prohibition.</p>
<p>Suggestion - Pack you bedding in a large plastic trash bag and make the bed first. You then have a large trash bag for the rest of the unpacking debris and trash. If it rains during unloading, your bedding will stay dry in the bag.</p>
<p>Emmybet, no connection at Adelphi. I think it’s just SOP at most schools that there are helpers. Maybe just at small LACs though? </p>
<p>Snoosn, my parents told me if I had to go to my safety school (uni in my home town) I couldn’t come home until Thansgiving. Imo, I would discourage your D to come so much. Maybe once a month but once a week, too much, imo.</p>
<p>Thanks for the support, and congrats to all the new successful launchers!
AvonHSDad, glad to hear Georgetown re-opened! Better be safe than sorry.
Have a great day everyone and best of luck to the ones leaving on their big trip!</p>
<p>Thanks for clarifying, emily. D says she knows there will be lots of helpers. I thought it was weird that it was a ghost town at D1’s school and we had to do the move-in ourselves (both girls’ schools are small private Us). I kept saying to H, “Where are all of the big guys to help us?” (as he did for me when I arrived at school). No real worries - we’ll just deal.</p>
<p>Snoozn - we all know it was a hard choice for your D to go to state U. I can imagine taking a few baby steps won’t really hurt her. Living so close to UW-Madison, I know kids who never really invest in being there, and sometimes that’s regrettable. But sometimes it just takes time, and usually once they have a semester or two under their belts they’re completely devoted to their new “home.”</p>
<p>The general wisdom about dealing with feeling connected at big state Us seems to be that it might take longer to find your “peeps” than at other schools, but it does happen. I agree that it might not be as quick with the average group of kids on her floor; probably more when classes start and she’s with people she has something in common with. What people have told me is at a more heterogeneous school (and we’re dealing with that somewhat, too) “the people are there; it just takes more effort and time to find them.”</p>
<p>You’ll know what feels comfortable for her, and I would bet she’ll wean herself from the coming home all the time habit. I hope some kids take her up on the belly-dancing group; maybe they’ll meet on weekends and make her too busy to come home so much.</p>
