<p>D emailed me today that she is going to be a host for an overnight that they have for high school senior girls. She was so excited that she was selected. She attended one when she was a senior, and it sold her on the school. I replied to her “I assume that this means you like it there?”</p>
<p>Was just in London. Grey and a little drizzly but not cold. Will be heading to Boulder pretty soon, where I expect to be sunny. On Florida, it’s high in the low 90’s and then thunder storms over the weekend. I prefer Boulder.</p>
<p>ShawD emailed and told me that she loved her psych prof and the math was very easy. Her chemistry professor is British and speaks in a way that lulls her to sleep.</p>
<p>She said all of her teachers send out powerpoint/pdf lecture notes in advance. She wants to be able to write on them and was wondering if a tablet will do that. I think you can write on a pdf in an ipad2 (with a special stylus). Is anyone doing this?</p>
<p>Emmybet, I can relate to the scheduling issues for your theater major. This weekend is parents weekend for us, and my daughter’s studio professor is taking them on an all day trip on Saturday to a master class and recital 2 hours away. While we are all disappointed (apparently nobody else realized the conflict), she would still like to see us, so we are going up today (Friday) and just spending the night. We will then leave early Saturday to get back in time for a marching band competition on Saturday night that we were planning to miss. I don’t want her to have negative feelings about her school either, but it seems like such a wasted trip for such a short time!</p>
<p>@ Jam - Wow! Perhaps this happens more than I know but that seems really poor planning at the very least. I am so sorry for your disappointment. I would be very sad as well. You are righ not to let your dd catch on to the level of your frustration. It is hard, but I’m sure she’d rather spend the day with you as well. Gentle hugs to you as you adapt your plans and accept the time you will have together. I am however passing Peppers frying pan to use on that studio professor. :mad:</p>
<p>Jam: Sorry to hear about the conflict. I hope that you have a nice visit.</p>
<p>A few days ago, my daughter sent me an email asking what hives look like.
I called her and she was getting more springing up, so I convinced her to go to the health center and see a nurse, that she probably needed an antihistimine. </p>
<p>The nurse told her they were bug bites and she should wash her sheets and go buy Zyrtec. </p>
<p>So I got a text from her: “Zyrtec $26 with a coupon. I hate being an adult!!”</p>
<p>;-)</p>
<p>Sorry JAM-we can’t go to Parent’s Weekend since it is the annual Soccer Cup Tournament for our town’s rec league and this is the last year my husband can coach-she moves up to a division next year with no coaches-the kids just play 6 v. 6 on a smaller field.</p>
<p>I am not happy to miss it but it is on our end-too bad that professor didn’t take this into account when scheduling the trip.</p>
<p>Yuck about the bug bites. :(</p>
<p>You can add us to the group missing Parent’s Weekend. It is the same weekend (this weekend!) as D’14 hs homecoming! And while we have had offers from grandparents to take her to and from the dance, she wanted to have a group of friends come over to get ready together, then boys will show up for pictures followed with dinner at another friends house. Since D’14 was put on the back burner a lot last year, I hated to put her second again. We’ll find another weekend to go visit :/</p>
<p>Yes Bama, our poor little girl got a little lost in the shuffle last year too-we have to remember as a HS freshman now she is going through a lot of firsts (and lasts).</p>
<p>**The next new student move-ins are University of Chicago, University of California Riverside, Irvine and San Diego move-ins on September 18th - Just 2 days to go!
Move-in day is in 2 days!<br>
Labor Day is past. Football season is in full bloom. Where has the summer gone? :eek:</p>
<p>[ul][<em>]Stanford University move-in on September 20th is just 4 days to go.
[</em>]The last new student move-ins are the University of Oregon and the University of Southern Oregon on September 22nd which is 6 days to go. </p>
<p>The LAST Move-in day is in 6 days. Now less than a week to go. The launching season is nearly complete.[/ul]</p>
<p>The link to the Move-in Date Thread is <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1141579-hs-class-2011-college-class-2015-move-dates-6.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1141579-hs-class-2011-college-class-2015-move-dates-6.html</a></p>
<p>If you son’s or daughter’s move-in dates and schools are not listed please add them to the list.**</p>
<p>D’s hand is extremely swollen; she saw a specialist who told her to go to physical therapy. She called me because he said something to the effect of: it will never be the same. In the meantime, she waited 1.5 hours for PT but had to leave to go to class. I called the dr; he said if she doesn’t start PT, hand could stiffen permanently. :(</p>
<p>It’s her right hand, which means she can’t take notes, but on the upside, D said “Mom – I have a friend in every class!” So it should all work out.</p>
<p>@ClassOf2015 - I’m SO sorry. I just hope youth will make it heal better than expected.</p>
<p>@LeftyLou - lol, BUT - if it’s bug bites, Facilities needs to be involved. I don’t think washing the sheets is good enough; I think the dorms need to be exterminated.</p>
<p>My son sent me a text last night after I was asleep, and I replied to it at 5 am his time. He responded. (uh-oh!) He said it wasn’t going to be an all-nighter because he was going to get a chance for a three hour nap before his 10:00 class. Good thing first sem is P/F…</p>
<p>Yikes, I check in here for the first time in ages and there’s chatter about meeting up in London. I’m the London contact, I believe, and I must confess I haven’t dared show my face around here because I am so obviously Bad Mum. Or, at the very least, a parent with niche concerns. (MarmiteMum, where are you?!) Our poor S started college the weekend of the hurricane but because we have no US address, he ended up with phone which allows no international texting or direct dialling, plus he doesn’t even have a US bank account yet.</p>
<p>So we went along for quite awhile, thinking no news was good news until we twigged that the poor lad couldn’t text us (his preferred mode of communication) or even call us and that if we waited for him to email, we’d be waiting till the cows came home.</p>
<p>On the plus side, he seems to have settled in, made friends, enjoys his courses and relishes his trips into Manhattan. And yes, he likes the food.</p>
<p>I’m writing this from Shanghai from our hotel high up on the Bund, looking out at the lights and river traffic. I expect to be in London through Jan, then hopping back and forth between UK and Shanghai. You’re all welcome either of those spots - though I can state right now that Shanghai will be the luxury end, London (5 story Georgian house) more spartan!</p>
<p>Classof2015 - WHAT?? What kind of dr. gives the patient “it will never be the same” and parent “could stiffen permanently” from a fall?? Someone needs bedside manner training or “dealing with parents long distance” training I think. I’d be a wacko - I usually only lose my temper on healthcare providers.
Samuck - Hope the weather is good - I was always sweating in Shanghai but I guess Sept is the time to be there. I can hear your accent in your post - what is “twigged” ?</p>
<p>AK, “twigged” = “finally cottoned on to, after being idiots for a long while!” Same as “the penny FINALLY dropped!” And it is getting a bit cooler here, now that we’re past the Mid Autumn Festival, but the temps, 25 degrees c, would count as ‘hot’ in the UK .</p>
<p>For some reason my post re Classof2015’s D didn’t show up. I meant to say all the best to her, obviously a glass half FULL person. Who needs use of a right hand when one’s got friends!!! And then I dittoed everything above re what kind of fool doctor says your hand will never be the same again…</p>
<p>Geekmom63- she called Res Life, they came out and looked around, yelled at the girls for keeping food in their room (the kitchen cabinets are too full, now we know for next year, she needs an extra cabinet with shelves for the kitchen, like that is going to fit in the car!). Res Life put down traps, but didn’t find anything.</p>
<p>She was outside for an hour on 9/11 for a service they held on their plaza, and may have gotten bitten up then. Bites didn’t show up for 2 days though, I thought that was weird. </p>
<p>She’s getting better, not as itchy. </p>
<p>But I was beginning to wonder if the million dollar bed bug protection mattress cover we bought at BBB was a hoax…</p>
<p>Classof2015 - I am sorry to hear about your Ds injury - both of my kids started using the LiveScribe pens and they are loving them - because their lectures are recorded on the pen, it is very easy for them to go back to their cryptic notes and make sense of them…check it out - it may be useful to your D.</p>
<p>I also started using one when I go to long brainstorming meetings. I can then share my notes and audio with my team. It has been very helpful. Just google Livescribe.</p>
<p>Samuck - Not poking fun at you, but it’s funny that you defined something we yankees don’t hear with other things that I don’t hear, like “cotton to” or “penny dropped” - I feel very sheltered in my knowledge of english. I think I would need a translator if I came to London! I’d be better off in Shanghai. Hope you got some good mooncakes and saw the lanterns, my dh got all nostalgic this year (must be too long away from home) for mooncakes and authentic chinese food. </p>
<p>LeftyLou - mosquitos this year are huge and voracious, with all the wet weather we are all getting huge welts from bites. One thing we tried this year was citronella bands (like those “silly bandz”) - seem to work - and don’t make you smell like bug spray!</p>
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<p>GeekMom, this is one thing where us west-coasters with children attending school on the east coast have a definite advantage ;)</p>