<p>^ My D would love to be in Flynn, but she is sure it’s hopeless. It’ll probably be JPII if she stays on campus, but she’d far rather have the greater freedoms of the upper class dorm.</p>
<p>Good luck! Online housing Apps have to be done between 2/25 and 3/1. They have great SYE (sophomore year experience) apartments too. Either way, it’ll be resolved by mid March?</p>
<p>Have to share: DD returned to college yesterday. We told her to text us when she arrived safely at the dorm (2600 m. trip). We wait and wait all day for a proof of life text. Finally, in the middle of the night we get, “Hey, you snuck some extra stuff in my suitcase!” (some new socks and scivies) ;)</p>
<p>It would have been worse if she didn’t notice. Glad she is back safe and sound.</p>
<p>glido, my older D went back yesterday too. However, my text was about what she realized she left behind!</p>
<p>The issue of the lost room key has been resolved. Maintenance determined the keys had been sucked into the sump pump at the bottom of the elevator shaft and therefore could not be recovered. When S went to Housing to get the key replaced, they told him that they’d been made aware of the situation by Maintenance and that under the circumstances, there would be no charge to re-key his room.</p>
<p>If the key is unrecoverable, why re-key the room? If you’re going to re-key the room, why not recover the cost? 
</p>
<p>Guess I shouldn’t look a gift key in the mouth, huh?</p>
<p>A sump pump, huh? Fascinating!</p>
<p>Yep, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. :-)</p>
<p>A sump pump sucked it up? Wild. Glad it’s been resolved!</p>
<p>After one audition and three call backs, DD is now one of her university’s female a cappella group. She is so excited!!</p>
<p>Congratulations. Good for her.</p>
<p>That is great, cama!</p>
<p>Hooray for cama’s D! Happy dancing for her.</p>
<p>congrats cama!</p>
<p>My D is very excited about the sorority where she received a bid. I was not greek myself, but I think this will be a good experience for her.</p>
<p>jackief - that’s the best outcome. You don’t really care what it is as long as they are happy. I am sure you were holding your breath until she called, I did. Congratulations.</p>
<p>Yay cama’s D! A cappella rocks.</p>
<p>Congrats to cama and jackief! Happy news!</p>
<p>Our D is beyond happy—her bff is admitted and has a scholarship interview, so they will be able to attend college together for the next few years. They have a wonderful friendship, we are all very happy!</p>
<p>So thank you guys a few pages back for your suggestions for my empty nest. As luck would have it, we have been besieged by problems with this that and the other. Nothing too major, but the kind that keep your level of aggravation high.</p>
<p>D’s college is not one where you get better and better housing as you progress through school. We are trying to figure out options, none of which is really ideal. She was lucky and got a single in a satisfactory dorm coming in, but for next year, she can not figure out what to do. Her various friends are making arrangements that were not what she wanted, and she doesn’t really have a friend to live with yet. She is talking to some more people, but she is reluctant to take a double, especially after having the single this year. Also, if I may gripe, she is picky…she might get a single, but not where she would want it. I really find this agitating.</p>
<p>The whole off campus housing thing is kind of overwhelming. What experiences off campus did any of your older children have? My step D lived off campus with people that were ostensibly friends (but really not close), and she had a bf that essentially moved in, and is much more laid back about these things than my D (and me). My own apartment living with a roommate was in grad school, and I think I had matured a lot by then.</p>
<p>I keep thinking of Jimmy Durante and his catastrastroke.</p>
<p>Oh, and I was following the elevator/keys story here - the sump pump??? Who wudda guessed…</p>
<p>steve - I love it. Not sure why there wouldn’t be a cost, if it’s lost it’s lost- but glad for it. I imagine that will be a story that gets told for many years to come.</p>
<p>cama - congrats. My d just watched that movie pitch perfect and my son’s school is really into it as well.</p>
<p>My d is a hs junior and thinks she wants to be in a sorority - where would I go to find out the vibe of greek life on campuses?</p>
<p>D1 lived off campus junior year. If your kid is picky like mine then less is more, as in fewer roommate is better, less drama. D1 got an apartment with her best friend, while their sorority sisters got a big house for 8 people. D1 still went to their house for parties, but she went back to her quiet apartment when she needed to study. I also had 2 separate lease for her and her roommate, so they wouldn’t be financially responsible for each other if the other person should decide to leave.</p>
<p>eyemamom - there is Greek life and then there is Greek life. I think in general sororities outside of south are more low key, no recommendation letters needed and not as many required events. D1 was very involved with her sorority, but she also had a lot of ECs and friends outside of her sorority.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Yes. Specifically, it’s used for seed corn - corn being grown for seed companies. The seed companies want hybrid corn - corn that is a cross between two specific varieties. So they plant the two varieties side-by-side in the same field. They want the pollen the the tassels of the stalks of variety A to pollinate the nascent ears in the stalks of variety B. They need to prevent plants from variety B from pollinating other plants from variety B. So they need to remove the tassels - the pollinators - from all the variety B plants so that they will only receive pollen from variety A plants.</p>
<p>There are machines that get most of the tassels, but they leave a lot undone or incompletely done, and the work must be finished by hand. Both my kids have done it. As jaylynn says, it’s a popular summer job for kids, because it pays pretty well and fits into the summer schedule. It’s also about the only work available to 12 and 13 year olds (because it’s agricultural work, the age limits are more flexible). But it is indeed hot, tiring, unpleasant work.</p>