<p>Well, if they delete it then you’ll be post #4000, which I am pretty certain they will.</p>
<p>SteveC - I am certain you will get that honor unless we decide to give it to oldfort!</p>
<p>D had a very busy week and I didn’t hear from her much. She worked a crazy number of hours and had a lot of projects/papers due this week too. She did call tonight and she had a pajama day today to recoop and regenerate. She got her Valentine’s care package a day late, but at least she got it. It was a Godiva chocolate bar, a bag of conversation hearts and a bag of Hershey’s kisses… her three faves. </p>
<p>She’s giving me suggestions for schools to look into for her brother. She was so much more focused (obsessed maybe?) on college searching! We recalled how she said there was no way she would ever apply to Barnard, until she spent a week there for a summer program and fell in love. It zoomed to the top of her list after that! </p>
<p>I’m doing homework on a Saturday night. I have recommended to my kids that they try to complete their higher level education before they are working full time and have a family…lol. If someone had told me when I was in my 20’s that at age 47, I’d be sitting at home on a Saturday night writing up information security digital forensics reports, I’d have told them they were crazy!</p>
<p>2016Barnardmom - loved your post! Our DD’16 was on the phone with DS’14 for half an hour giving him college suggestions. She couldn’t be bothered when it was her own college search!</p>
<p>SteveC - who said dreams can’t come true.</p>
<p>2016BarnardMom (and glido) when my older D enrolled at a women’s college, her younger brother pronounced that he would NOT be attending the same school as his sister!</p>
<p>SteveC - so glad it worked out for you!</p>
<p>S has a lot of papers with deadlines coming up. He gets 2 weeks off for spring break. Between the length of time and the fact that schools have differing spring break calendars, that makes it so much better for arranging flights. He did not come home at all during the fall semester. Their fall break was too short, and at Thanksgiving the flight costs were prohibitive.</p>
<p>Just about this time yesterday, I wrote …
… to which oldfort responded …
… and texaspg added
That’s what I was counting on when I clicked on “report this post.” :D</p>
<p>college_query- When we moved D in at Barnard, S '14 was looking around at all the young ladies and said “I want to go to this school!” LOL Teenage boys…</p>
<p>college_query: Love your post. DS’14 is interested in going to college within driving distance of his sister. (She went 2600 miles) Don’t know if it will happen, but it warms my heart to see the two of them so closer as they get older.</p>
<p>D has gotten almost gotten through the first round of tests for the semester. She had 4 tests in 3 days. Takes another this Wednesday, feels like she is on overload. I hope once she gets the next test out of the way she will feel less stressed.</p>
<p>D’s sport season ended this past weekend, so I called her today to see how she was doing with all the free time! No morning practice so got to sleep to 7:30, no afternoon practice, caught up on homework, now bored. Too much free time and it’s only day 1. I suggested she look for a job, which was not met with immediate roaring enthusiasm.</p>
<p>Page three? Again? :eek:</p>
<p>2016BarnardMom wrote:
Teenage? We never grow out of it, we just (eventually) develop a better sense of when to keep it to ourselves. :)</p>
<p>Still having a hard time getting used to timing in the quarter system. S just had his first set of midterms … and advising and registration for the spring quarter start this week.</p>
<p>Fall course fair is tomorrow at my daughter’s school. It’s a time for kids to talk to professors about what the various courses will be like.</p>
<p>SteveC, I’m also having a hard time getting used to the quarter system. S informed me when we Skyped on Sunday that he’s already registered for spring quarter classes. What?! This time he didn’t even ask me anything ahead of time–I guess he really is figuring it out for himself!</p>
<p>My D’16 tweeted yesterday that she misses her brother. Today, she asked if maybe I could fly him to New York for a weekend over his spring break for his birthday present and she would get tickets to Wicked for them. I just checked prices, and since it is the weekend after Easter, it may be cost prohibitive. I feel nervous about sending S’14 on a plane to New York on his own. Granted, D’16 went on her own for her pre-college program at Barnard when she was about that age, but she’d traveled a lot more than he has. What to do, what to do… I do love that they want to spend a weekend together in NYC. My brother and I were never close like that.</p>
<p>BarnardMom - Your D sounds very sweet!</p>
<p>“develop a better sense of when to keep it to ourselves”</p>
<p>adding a caveat - when sober.</p>
<p>2016BarnardMom, if it’s not cost prohibitive, it might be a good “test” to send him. My younger S went to visit D at spring break his junior year in HS to look at area colleges. We couldn’t all afford to go, so we just sent him. He was a little nervous, but he wanted to look at schools far away, and it was good to know he was able to handle traveling/navigating on his own. He ended up going even farther away than his sister! He’s around 2.5 hours away from her and they have gotten together a few times this year. Maybe they don’t hate each other?</p>
<p>Yes, I agree if the cost is doable for BarnardMom’s S, it would be a great experience for him. My S traveled to D’s city his senior year and had to navigate air and subway and a taxi and he felt quite proud of himself that he did it. He ended up not going to a city school, but the experience of checking out colleges without parents helped him see college from a different light and S and D got to bond. They are more capable than we think.</p>
<p>BarnardMom - I’m not sure at what age the “unaccompanied minor” stops, but it might be 16 which would mean he would have to go as an unaccompanied minor with a little badge and everything! It usually means the parent gets to go directly to the gate and wait until the flight takes off and the person he’s meeting also gets to go directly to the arrival gate. That would ease your mind and embarrass your son, but hey, he’d still be in NY when it was all said and done!</p>