<p>Loved “Modern Family”. And yes, I cried.</p>
<p>[Modern</a> Family Season 4 Episode 2 | Full TV Episode Online - ABC.com](<a href=“http://abc.go.com/watch/modern-family/SH559066/VD55237856/schooled]Modern”>http://abc.go.com/watch/modern-family/SH559066/VD55237856/schooled)</p>
<p>That “Modern Family” episode last night made cry too–I think it’s way too soon for me to have watched that. Three weeks and change since we dropped DS off and it hasn’t really gotten much easier. I still miss him like crazy–it feels kind of like the life was sucked right out of my house, which is a terrible thing to say since both my DH and DD are still around. Unfortunately, I just don’t connect with either of them the way I did with my son. I knew it would be hard, but I thought it would have gotten better by now.</p>
<p>Hope those of you at Parent’s Weekends are enjoying them! This year we couldn’t go due to our school schedule, but at least we got to go last weekend.</p>
<p>Thanks to those offering your RA experiences via PM. Middle son will have a bit to think about - esp regarding time commitments. I keep having thoughts of General Mom and all the RM issues on here running through my mind. I ended up sending him an e-mail suggesting he talk with current RAs about pros/cons regarding research and pre-med…
That might register on the helicopter scale, but I’d rather he truly think about all involved rather than just be seeing the fun stuff.</p>
<p>It’s official. SteveC is now the designated archivist and researcher extraordinaire for the “Parents of the High School Class of 2012” & “Parents of the College Class of 2106” threads.</p>
<p>Congratulations, SteveC! ;)</p>
<p>Elkyes - thanks for posting that. I missed it because I was on a business trip. I am going to watch it tonight. Love that show.</p>
<p>It was bound to happen but it’s my turn with one who is away and not feeling well. Luckily it seems to be the beginning of a cold. S hasn’t mentioned an all out flu outbreak or anything. He kindly suggested I have some cold medicine when I pick him up on Saturday (for the day). Now mind you-I do like feeling like I am needed, but I played the good mom and suggested different places he could go to on his own to get some for himself. We will see if he takes my suggestions. 
(At the end of the conversation he indicated it is not all that bad-yet).</p>
<p>I have discovered that I talk to myself quite a bit. Not by choice-its either talk to myself or talk to the cats. Maybe it is time to start hosting some get togethers here at my house. Usually not the entertainer…</p>
<p>S is hoping to change his major. He was going to try to meet with his advisor. Hard to believe he will be selecting his classes for next semester soon. Really!!! He and one of his RM have the same major now and both want to switch to the same different one. I think that will help them both with studying, etc…</p>
<p>S does not have a fall break but happy for all of you who get to have your kids sleeping in their own beds for a few nights. I will have to wait for Thanksgiving for that.</p>
<p>I cried watching Modern Family as well. Loved the line about it being a miracle vs the law. I feel that way about 8th grade graduations - you legally had to attend, is it really an accomplishment?</p>
<p>PN - it’s on the tip of my tongue about the person who lives in Rochester - I even chatted with them about it. My old brain will roll around to it eventually.</p>
<p>amtc - hope you can get some resolution this weekend with the housing. It’s so difficult for the kids to basically feel uncomfortable in their own rooms.</p>
<p>Creek - S has no interest in being an RA and I don’t blame him. Seems like a thankless job to me. They have a funny name for the d’lions, again I can’t remember it but S thinks they are the more unnaturally peppy people he’s ever met. </p>
<p>Someone mentioned 3 weeks in and they still really missed their child. I think that’s about right. It’s been 6 weeks and while I got a little teary when he walked through the door, I didn’t cry on the way back out. Seeing him, talking to him made it okay. You do adjust, it just takes time.</p>
<p>D called AGAIN last night to discuss courses for the 2nd quarter as preference signup starts soon. 3 classes a term. She has to weigh getting in the sciences for the health care track versus requirements for graduation. She is not a reader so she needs to be sure the reading load is not too heavy when managing more than one lab class. </p>
<p>I think S stopped asking for advice mid-sophomore year. My input: graduate from your LAC in 4 years, because the 5th is on your dime.</p>
<p>Both my husband and I love when our kids call for course discussions - they don’t usually listen but it’s fun to hear their thought process. I usually get yelled at for not remembering the next term what classes they are taking but oh well!</p>
<p>Thanks for all the support! I keep trying to wean myself from CC but you guys keep pulling me back in and for that I am thankful. We meet this afternoon, we’ll see what happens. Right now some friends think husband should go and I should stay out because I have a temper but I don’t think I could abdicate at this point. The people are so nice and that makes it much more difficult to get angry but I will not leave until there is an effective resolution and I fear my husband might allow for smaller intermediary steps because he doesn’t know those either have been taken or are not realistic for our daughter. Okay, definitely just convinced myself that this is my meeting with daughter, not his!</p>
<p>Enjoy the weekend everyone!</p>
<p>WalkingTessie wrote:
I’m honored. I don’t know what to say besides, “Thank you for not using the word ‘geek’.” :)</p>
<p>amtc – I’m remembering your story from earlier in the year of your D’s experience costuming a play. What motivated her to tell off the director? Was it having the support of friends or just a degree of offense that her present situation hasn’t yet crossed? Was there a lesson learned there she could apply now? Good luck to you both with the meeting.</p>
<p>I assume S is using the bathroom on the boys’ floor above or below but I didn’t ask. As for whether a boy is allowed to live there…since he isn’t technically living there but rather staying there at night, I think it’s probably treated as if he were staying over with a girl would be. He says he only keeps his toiletries there, apparently he goes to his own dorm to change clothes and such. To me it sounds like a pain but they are adjacent dorms and I guess the novelty of it appeals, for awhile.</p>
<p>He was actually supposed to be in this dorm as it is the honors dorm and he is in the Honors program, but he was late getting his housing paperwork in.</p>
<p>If he gets kicked out then that will fix the situation :)</p>
<p>Hi everyone, so I was catching up on my dvr’d shows tonight and found yet another one with the college send off story - Castle. So that makes three - Parenthood and Modern Family are the others.
Is it always like this at this time of year and I’m just noticing because it’s meaningful to me this year?
Those of you with older kids were there as many shows tackling this in previous years?</p>
<p>Amtc - hope all goes well and the school this weekend. My S has been so much happier since he switched rooms.</p>
<p>Had dinner with a friend this week whose DD is struggling to get her EA application finished, and in general battling with her parents about writing essays and making sure to pick a safety school where she really could be happy. Another friend was going to parent’s weekend at DDs’ old BS. First time in six years we are not there. Hard to believe it was all only a year ago.</p>
<p>Meanwhile DD had a meltdown over her econ test. High anxiety with no clear focus since she had done all the reading and homework, and there was nothing in particular she did not understand. I think it was just the newness of what a test might be like for a 400 person class. Her largest HS class was 18 kids - and that had 2 teachers - most classes were under 12. After the test she said it was “not bad” so I assume all is well.</p>
<p>Brr, the weather forecasters were right and we did have a freeze last night - the earliest since 1996. We covered part of our garden and picked the rest. I’ll find out later how the covered part did. I’ll also be making stuffed peppers later with plenty for leftovers!</p>
<p>Yesterday I spent some time at school talking with seniors who were still working on apps and essays. It’s nice having an “off” year, but once my youngest is through the process it’ll probably get nostalgic. </p>
<p>Right now our plans are for me to “retire” from school when youngest graduates. I’ll probably move into online tutoring and/or standardized test grading. It’s kind of getting a bit more real as the seasons change. I look at the freshmen and sophomores and think that I won’t likely see them graduate. Weird, but the allure of living on the road (our plan) is very appealing.</p>
<p>Of course, the finances of it all might derail our plans for an additional year or two, but I don’t want to kill the dream at this point. ;)</p>
<p>Any other URoc folks in the Bio class? Middle son said the second test was BRUTAL (caps his). They had 12 pages to do in 90 minutes and no one he knows finished. They don’t get the grades/curve until Wednesday… I suspect he did fine, but he’s my perfectionist so merely not finishing will be bugging him. He’ll probably be telling stories about it to his kids/grandkids. I remember similar happenings from my college days and I still relate stories to the students at school. The players change, but the play doesn’t. </p>
<p>Happy weekend all!</p>
<p>Creek - I assume unless you live in Rochester you aren’t doing Meliora weekend? At least my son isn’t the only one without parents there. S isn’t taking bio - thanks to his hs teachers they pretty much killed all science interest in him. </p>
<p>This second semester of figuring out classes is way more difficult. Many classes he wanted to take aren’t taught spring semester and he likes tues thurs classes which seem very scarce. He may be the one kid in college who prefers morning classes and to be done early in the day. He was thinking 2 math classes, 2 cluster classes and a philosophy/logic for fun. I’m trying to encourage him to get through the requirements sooner rather than later - which helps give structure to the schedule as he figures what he likes and doesn’t. Hard to believe he has to already be thinking of next semester classes, I just got used to him being in college.</p>
<p>No, with our school schedule here we couldn’t do Meliora weekend so we went to visit him last weekend (when we had Monday off). He tells me there are quite a few without parents - which makes me feel better.</p>
<p>His classes are pretty set for next semester. Calc, Bio & Chem all continue (with labs) and he needs to pick his English course. I don’t know if he’ll add anything else considering the time required for his labs plus he wants to get involved in research. Next year he’ll get far more options. His pre-med classes can count for his clusters (at least I think that’s what he told me). If he adds another I suspect it’ll be another BCS (Brain/Cognitive Science) class. He loves the one he has now. But I’d be happy with him just taking the four since the classes and labs can take up a bit of time.</p>
<p>DS is home (for Fall break) and happy! He just finished midterms so does not have that much work with him. This morning we went to Best Buy to activate his new iPhone, which he is loving. It is so much faster than his 4 year old iPhone 3. So nice to have him home. I will savor the next two days!</p>
<p>Creekland, I texted S and asked about Bio. He said he didn’t think it was that bad but that everyone was freaking out about it. He’s not thinking med school so seems to think that a B would be a reasonable grade (he got above the mean on the last test but didn’t blow it out of the water and seemed ok with that.) He’s a conscientious student, but sometimes too laid back for his up-tight mom! I need to make sure that he knows what gpa his merit money requires :o </p>
<p>I haven’t talked to him about it but I think his schedule is about 3/4 set for next semester too–the same as your S, (assuming he takes multivariate–he skipped math this semester.) He seems to like BCS as well and is likely to take that as his 4th class. I know he wants to take some Psych and Philosophy and maybe poetry as well, so hope he figures out how to fit those in. I wonder if our kids know each other? Mine has lots of hair so is pretty recognizable! He’s on the 4th floor of SB, so may have been in some orientation activities with your S as well.</p>
<p>DH is in Rochester for Meliora weekend, so I’m looking forward to hearing about his in person observations when he gets back. He says it is getting pretty cold, so I’m glad S’s new winter jacket arrived today.</p>
<p>PNWedwonk - if our kids are sharing a bunch of classes (they share Chem too, right?) then they probably do know each other - at least by sight if they aren’t in the same labs or study groups. I wonder if they know WE know each other? ;)</p>
<p>The first thing we did last weekend (after lunch) was go to the mall to buy my guy a winter coat. He was insisting he didn’t need it just yet. I grew up in upstate NY… I suspect he’ll get some use out of it!</p>
<p>I actually do think my guy did well on the test - he did very well on the first one. He’s just a perfectionist who can get annoyed at missing one question, so not finishing is probably a big stress for him. He did e-mail to tell me he went by to see the prof. The prof assured him he shouldn’t worry, but I’ve no idea if he had actually looked at his test yet. I have memories of having to console this kid because he got a spelling word wrong once in elementary school. His teacher brought up the same thing at that parent/teacher conference (“tell him it’s ok if he misses a question or two” - uh, yeah, we’ve BEEN telling him that!).</p>
<p>Personalities are in interesting thing. I wish I could take just a little bit of his academic work ethic and put it into his younger brother. Both are great with people interactions, but getting youngest to actually study is nearly impossible.</p>