Congrats on the all the good news!
^^ Thanks. He returned home from Washington this evening after two days of callback interviews. He received his 3rd summer associate (SA) offer from a west coast firm today as well. He has a full day of law journal orientation tomorrow and then another week of interviews scattered across the country. He has some hard decisions to make in the next couple of weeks. While he flies around the country next week, AvonMom and I will be moving DD 2014 back into her campus apartment next week as she starts her junior year.
@AvonHSDad, sounds like he’s on a roll . Wonderful that he’ll have so many choices. And best of luck to your daughter. My younger son (‘14) leaves for edinburgh on sept 6, and I’ll go visit the first week of October. Making it a girls’ vacation, as I’m going with my best friend from childhood who I don’t get to spend much time with because we live states apart, and my SIL, whom I adore and who lives on the other coast. Unfortunately my husband has a case this fall that won’t allow him to breathe, let alone come on a trip to visit our son. Son of this thread (from high school '11) begins his grad school apps now. We’ll know by March where he’s heading next year.
@RenaissanceMom, I would agree with the on a roll comments. Possibly too much so! But we told him it appears to be feast or famine and feast is much better. He whole heartedly agreed. Based on the feedback he is receiving, it appears that he interviews very well and comes across as relaxed and very confident in his abilities. He has also been told that he addresses and answers questions in a direct and straightforward way but maintains a relaxed and conversational style… Learning to interview is a difficult skill to learn or teach. I think it mostly comes from experience and feedback. Fortunately he got a lot of that his senior year as an undergraduate when we was interviewing for consulting jobs.
It sounds like you will have a great trip to Edinburgh. The weather should be a bit warmer than what we experienced in late November and the days a bit longer too. We saw dusk by 4 - 430 pm when we were there but it made the early evening walks to the Christmas market all that much more fun. Good luck to your S with his grad school apps. Hopefully he won’t have to spend time on the SS Indecision next spring. LOL
DS is now on the SS Indecision Summer Associate 2L version). He received a total of 9 summer offers for next year. He has declined one and has identified his top three choices. He is being flown back to their offices next Friday for follow up meetings. He will be in class Monday through Thursday and has set up lunch meetings with the 3L’s who just spent their summer at his top choice firms. We do know he will have a summer associate position next year. We just don’t know which firm he will be working for. This will be his 4th cross country trip this month. He is becoming a road warrior. LOL
Best of luck to him @AvonHSDad!
@RenaissanceMom - Thanks. He flew back to Durham from Chicago this weekend and texted that he was so happy to be back “home”. He stayed over in Chicago this weekend following his Friday interview as his long term girlfriend is living there as she completes her PA program. With all of his running around the country the past two plus weeks, he deserved a little down time. Now he says that in addition to zeroing in on the final firm selection for next summer, he is only about 150 pages behind in Constitutional law as he has missed over a week of classes. That course is usually part of the 1L program but with his dual degree specialty, they pushed Con Law back to the 2L year. This should all be settled by the end of Labor Day weekend.
My DD is starting her second year of teaching High School math with a “permanent” position…last year she was a long term sub.
@bopper - Congrats on your DD getting her position converted to permanent!
Wow, all these (present and future) doctors and lawyers and teachers and various respectable professions. My D has changed paths again and is going down Bohemian Artist Boulevard. She wouldn’t be able to get her physiology degree by spring, so she is graduating with just a dance major and PT school is off the table. She wants to spend as much time as she can teaching dance and exercise, picking up various certifications. She loved doing all the dance classes (including dance history, costuming, etc.), so the years haven’t been wasted, but that sure was lot of money (paid by H and me, as well as by her). She’ll probably end up working at Target to supplement her dance teacher earnings!
@snoozn : Dance and exercise teacher is a respectable profession. 
I know, we all hope for our kids to be on a path where they’ll be free from financial worries, but there are always issues no matter what. I’m glad your daughter is doing something she loves.
The decision has been made. DS has accepted an offer to be a Summer Associate at one of the law firms in the Silicon Valley/Palo Alto area which is the main office for this international firm. It appears that he will spend 10 weeks there for the summer program and will then most likely return upon graduation when he will become a full time junior associate. He is very excited and happy with the choice. He revisited the firm on Friday and it sealed the deal for him. All he has left to do is to call the other firms where he still has an outstanding offer and decline those offers. Now he can get back to a regular school year schedule and hit the books.
Congratulations.
Best of luck to him @AvonHSDad! I love San Francisco. It’s nice that he’ll end up on that side of the country and give you an excuse to visit CA.
@RenaissanceMom - We’ve already discussed it as AvonMom has never been to Napa and that is in the neighborhood. We can also use SFO as our gateway to visit family in Oz in lieu of flying out of LAX. I think this situation will work out very well! :">
HI Everyone! My daughter is living in NYC, and working for a company that produces conventions. They do a Harry Potter convention, and a geeky convention, but my daughter was hired to mostly program their Broadway convention. Last year was the first one. The same weekend as the blizzard of the century! Many of the guests couldn’t get there, DD was changing the programming on the fly, moving things around, asking the Broadway people who were there to sit in on other panels besides the one or two they had agreed to. It was cool to see her putting out fires. She was wearing a microphone on her lapel, and everyone was coming to her for solutions. Melted my heart. She’s very happy to be working in and around the Broadway industry. She worked as a seat filler at the Tony Awards!!
This coming convention (Jan 2017) will be way bigger than last year’s, held in the NYC convention center rather than a hotel. Hopefully it won’t snow, though…
My younger daughter is a high school senior, so we are in the midst of the college search again.
@LeftyLou What did you learn the first time that you will apply to the college search for the younger?
@LeftyLou - your daughter’s job sounds cool! S and H were there in NYC during that blizzard (S was auditioning for MT programs). It was so bad out there - I am sure she had tons of fires to put out/lots of scrambling to do!
We were there too visiting my d. We had the best time,the city was so quiet. Her apartment was just 10 mins from our hotel and we had no where to go so we enjoyed the snow!
@bopper That is a very good question but we didn’t have a normal experience. My older daughter only applied to one school, sure she would get in. So it was all very easy, plus she took care of everything, knew pertinent dates, etc. My younger is more open about where to go, as long as it’s within a two hour drive. So it’s harder the second time around. The biggest issue my older daughter had was roommate related, and I really don’t have any answers to that, except try to avoid triples.
That blizzard was incredible! My poor husband was home trying to keep up with the shoveling, while we were having fun in NY.