<p>I understand Snowflake. It’s funny, he’s fine, loves school and there really isn’t much to worry about, but it doesn’t stop me. ;)</p>
<p>When my son comes home he enjoys seeing us but he wants to see the girlfriend, his other buddies and do his usual home thing. We continue doing our thing, and if he’s around he hangs out, otherwise he’ll hang out in his man cave, play his guitar, play video games, sleep til noon and eat. We don’t make it a huge event besides the initial hugging, squeezing and grilling. </p>
<p>Now it’s not weird to have him home, and it’s not weird to have him go.</p>
<p>Had a decent break with DS, though it didn’t help that the housing office thought the best idea was to send information about the disciplinary action until the first day of the break. And, apparently the person who actually was smoking in the dorm backed down from taking the responsibility for smoking. </p>
<p>The first meeting will be over a month from the date they were written up, which just ****es me off to no end. I don’t see how the resident director could be so busy that it took her a month to get around to something like smoking a drug in the dorms. Also, as one might guess tensions between my son (and the others who are in trouble) and the smoker are ridiculously high. My son is scared that even if he proves he is clean with a drug test, it won’t matter as apparently the drug tests are only affective for a month after the last drug use.</p>
<p>If he’s interested, look into the possibility of a drug test based on a hair sample. The standard window for head hair is 90 days; for body hair, it’s more like one year. Until we were sold a while back, my company used hair sampling for its random testing program.</p>
<p>Hi- I have been posting on the HS class of 2015 thread, but figured I would join this group as well. I have a college freshman daughter and she is also home on break. Goes back Sunday. She does not spend much time with us as she mostly catches up with her HS friends, but tonight she wants to come out for sushi with us!! She has a few tests next week- hope she used her time at home to study.</p>
<p>Welcome twogirls. My son goes back this Sunday too. We had a nice break with him at home in between his visits with friends as well. Hard to believe half the semester is already gone by.</p>
<p>My daughter comes home again on May 15. She works in a camp starting June 24th. She needs to get her wisdom teeth pulled at some point. I guess we will do it in May before camp starts, or in December. She is picking out next years housing soon- they want a suite. I hope it works out!!</p>
<p>Our DD just got back! Being the hlepful parent, did some laundry and “washed” her cell phone! (DD is the happy owner of a new cell phone - UPGRADE.)</p>
<p>hurryahead- If he’s willing to do a drug test, get him to the doctor and have it done now. The test will be dated appropriately.</p>
<p>24 hours into spring break and she wrecked the car she and my son share. I was worried about how we were going to manage 3 drivers and 2 cars this summer. Now what?</p>
<p>Ok, so I need some advice. It is actually about D1 my 2014 girl.</p>
<p>She is abroad this semester and one of her roommates for next year is looking for summer sublettors for the apartment they rented for senior year. Well, they found some candidates and everything was going fine. Then the landlord went kind of wacko. He started accusing the sublettors of not being mature enough to live off campus because they asked about moving in later and other miscellaneous questions. He made one of the girls cry, and then called DD’s roommate who is not abroad this semester 14 times in one day. He also called me, and two of the other mothers. Now everyone is wondering if this guy is truly crazy and they are making a mistake living there. However, it is so late in the year that it would be hard to find something else, particularly since 3 of the 4 are out of the country. The apartment had been rented to students every year for more than 20 years, so this craziness seems a bit new. One of the moms is suggesting we parents go meet with the landlord. So what do you think?</p>
<p>1012mom-I would say if any one or more of the moms are able to meet with him-yes, go. Especially if any of you are co-signors on the lease-even better. If your students were not out of the country maybe it could be handled differently but if the fire can be put out before they get back maybe things won’t be worse.</p>
<p>Checking in to say howdy to all and mark the place I have caught up to.</p>
<p>Brought D back to the airport this morning after her break. She will be working near (ish) school this summer but we hope to have her home for a week. Flights went up since I originally looked, hope they drop again so I can book that. She just finished midterms before break.</p>
<p>School is going well. Calc III is the toughest. But she is still in engineering unlike a few of her friends at other schools. </p>
<p>She has her sorority initiation next week so we bought the few items she needed while she was home. She already had a white dress/shoes from HS graduation. She is dating this boy who was a friend earlier in the year. He seems very nice from what we’ve heard. She has a group of 6 she plans to live with next year, I don’t know when they select their actual suite. It seems most (all?) sophomore housing is 6 person suites. No sophomores living in her sorority house next year, seems you don’t get to the top of that list until jr or sr year.</p>
<p>twogirls – my D2015 needs her wisdom teeth out too. We were advised to do it last summer, but her HS got out late and college started early and summer internship took up every single weekday of the intervening 8 weeks! I didn’t want to do it over winter break. Maybe right after school lets out in May?</p>
<p>2016BarnardMom – we’re trying to figure out how to share 2 cars among 4 drivers for the summer. Unless D2015 lives away and needs a car, in which case it’ll be 1 car shared among the 3 of us at home. Luckily DH walks to work and I mostly work from home, so we’ll manage somehow.</p>
<p>1012mom – given that some of the kids are abroad and unavailable, parents should definitely look into it. Definitely, at least make a phone call to the landlord.</p>
<p>Add me to the list of parents of a kid who needs wisdom teeth removed. It might be August. Or maybe over the winter break next school year. She’s waited this long; I think it can probably wait a little longer.</p>
<p>BarnardGirl is ok, thank goodness. We won’t get an estimate on car repairs until Monday so I’m just evaluating options and figuring out my options, my max costs (for either repairs or a different vehicle), and letting the reality sink in. I’m also feeling really badly for my son. He got his license in August and has been very responsible and is a great driver. Now he doesn’t have his wheels because his sister wrecked. He’s being very nice about it, but I can tell he’s holding back a little. He knows how upset she is. </p>
<p>The last 28 hours have been very long and exhausting. I have to finish up my grad school term tomorrow with a final exam and another “once over” of my final project before turning it in. I had a very stressful work week and was looking forward to just chilling out Friday night. That isn’t exactly how things turned out! We’ll work it out and things will be ok in the end. I’m just really tired.</p>
<p>Mihcal- she goes to the dentist in May. I will talk to him about it and meet with the oral surgeon and hopefully get this done in December during her 6 week break. She goes back tomorrow! The week went fast.
Barnardmom that is stressful!! My friend’s daughter is now a freshman at Barnard.
Tonight my daughter went out with her friends but says she will be home by 11. It was so nice to see them all again!!!</p>
<p>My 2 cents on wisdom teeth. My middle son got them out at age 19 and the roots weren’t fully formed yet. My older son got them out at age 21 and the roots were fully formed, teeth were pretty impacted, and the roots went deep enough that he had a risk of having a hole open up from his mouth through to the sinus cavity during the procedure. This didn’t happen, but he was left with very thin tissue there - about as thin as it could be and stay intact. They can see on Xrays how big/formed the roots are. So sometimes waiting a year or two may make a difference. I know with kid #3 I’m planning on getting them out on the earlier side.</p>