<p>Glad to hear things went comparatively well, BarnardMom!</p>
<p>S has not declared a major yet (he applied to his school as undecided), but is leaning toward a couple of different majors as well as minors. I’m sure he won’t officially declare until the end of next year though, so that he has as much time as possible to make a decision, since that’s always been his personality.</p>
<p>As far as study abroad, he’s already planning on going to Japan in the Spring of his junior year followed by an internship there over the summer. Then possibly he’ll continue on to China in the fall of his senior year. Personally, that sounds like a lot to me (and I would be sad for him to be so far away for so long), so we’ll see what happens.</p>
<p>My daughter hasn’t officially declared, but intends to be a mechanical engineering major and has gone over all the requirements with her advisor. Most students will officially file their paperwork in the fall of their sophomore year.</p>
<p>She will be abroad studying language this summer and plans to study abroad one semester of her junior year.</p>
<p>I don’t think my son needs to declare a major til later on, however he has chosen to double major and gets advised based on that.</p>
<p>He wants to do study abroad with his girlfriend who attends another school, but unless he does a summer program I don’t see how it could work for his schedule.</p>
<p>Glad your D is doing well Barnardmom!</p>
<p>My guy knew going in that he was going to be neuroscience or brain & cognitive science. I don’t believe he has to choose between them for a year or two since they are so similar. I believe he’s also planning on either minoring or majoring in American Sign Language and possibly adding a minor in Spanish. He’s still pre-med too.</p>
<p>He might opt to apply for URoc’s Take 5 (allows one to have a free tuition 5th year to pursue more education). He’s also still toying with Study Abroad.</p>
<p>For now, I’m happy to hear he has his next fall classes lined up (Brain and Cognitive, Genetics, American Sign Language, & Orgo).</p>
<p>DD “declared” for Marketing Management with a minor in Economics and was assigned an academic adviser from the Business School. She will study abroad in London fall semester of Junior year and is toying with the idea of a “J” term in Thailand (economics) next January. That’s a pretty expensive month though, so she’s going to see how summer savings goes before applying for that.</p>
<p>My daughter went to school with the idea of either Creative Writing and/or Ceramics, that what we were looking for in a college (and believe me, Ceramics was harder than you’d think!). Now, after two terms of both, she cannot see herself in either major. I guess that’s what college is for but really? She’s loved both since she was in elementary school, we’ll see. She’s now looking towards Communications (whatever that means). We were kind of hoping that after taking her Computer Science class and doing so well in it, she might look towards that, but that’s never happening! Who knows, we’ll see, she’s got almost a full year.</p>
<p>She does want to travel abroad her Junior year and I’ve found 3 that her school offers that will work well for her I think; Denmark, Athens, and Scotland. She’s already leaning toward Athens without even looking at the program. We’ll spend some time this summer looking into it further.</p>
<p>Beautiful day here in NY, I’m off to the river walk.</p>
<p>S declared his major (psychology) in time to pre-register for Winter quarter. Although as he puts it, the “official story” is still that he’s pre-clinical, I think he’s in kid-in-a-candy-store mode right now with respect to what sort of psychology. I’ve suggested he not be afraid of covering all the bases now and save specialization for graduate school. Minor may not take focus until next year, but that’s fine as it’s not even required.</p>
<p>He’s scheduling around the idea of study abroad in Fall of junior year. London and Edinburgh are most attractive at the moment.</p>
<p>Is ceramics considered a liberal arts major? I remember having a ceramics engineering department when I was in grad school but we don’t see schools having that department anymore. They must have all become part of materials engineering.</p>
<p>S2 won’t declare/enter a major officially until next spring, although the classes he is taking now are a blend of Gen Eds and major-to-be courses, and in the fall he takes classes that work on his portfolio for entrance to major. Of course, the real problem is if you change your major significantly, quite of few of your classes don’t count for anything at all. S2’s gf is considering changing from engineering to secondary ed, which will set her back significantly.</p>
<p>My favorite professor at A&M did his undergrad in ceramic engineering at Alfred U. They still have ceramic (and glass) engineering, but given their proximity to Corning, that’s not surprising. I’ll bet you’re right, though, that many ceramic engineering programs were subsumed into materials science (and engineering) programs.</p>
<p>In the case of amtc’s D, I’m willing to bet it’s ceramics as in art.</p>
<p>Oh and welcome to the thread, if I’m not mistaken, to DramaMamaZ and greenbutton!</p>
<p>Housing all settled for next year…it is amazing to me that freshman year is coming to a close in a few weeks. My kid was really lucky with his lottery number and got great housing for next year - happy for him (and for me in terms of moving him in and out!)</p>
<p>He is comtemplating a double major or a major and concentration - which i guess is like a minor. He has not officially declared but is planning on taking classes that fulfill requirements for these two majors. Also his school has pretty intense required classes - 1/3 of all his classes are required core classes. The types of classes he will have been happy to have taken but are not fun while going through them! </p>
<p>barnardmom - I am so glad your daughter is on the road to recovery and feeling better. It must have been such a relief for you to be together for the spinal procedure. What a scare!</p>
<p>Yes, SteveC, it’s Studio Arts Ceramics, not engineering. She actually applied and was admitted to Alfred, as both of their versions of Ceramics are quite respected programs but since she wasn’t certain, it wasn’t a smart choice so she turned them down.</p>
<p>S applied as and was accepted as a music major but he has switched from BM to BA, and I think it was the right move.</p>
<p>S hasn’t yet declared a major, but is pretty far down the path to a math major so figures he will do that. He has really enjoyed his computer science classes so far and its likely he will also add a major in CS. It’s fun to see him so excited about his classes and professors. He’s definitely enjoying the chance to explore the many areas in which he is interested.</p>
<p>He’s taking his first physics class this quarter and had thought about that as a possible major in the past. I don’t know if he’ll want to try to add that as well at this point. </p>
<p>We’ve encouraged him to consider a quarter abroad, but he hasn’t spent any time thinking about it yet.</p>
<p>I cannot believe that at this very moment 3 weeks from now, I will be on campus moving my S back home. 3 Weeks!! Maybe I should seriously consider getting some things done I “thought” I would do while he was gone…</p>
<p>He will be scheduling fall classes tomorrow morning when his window opens. He is pretty stressed about it. There are already not a lot of open seats in the ones he is planning to sign up for. Crossing my fingers. </p>
<p>Seems not too long ago it was hard to wrap my head around him leaving and now it is the same for him coming home. All of the visits through the year have been great, but he was on break. This time he needs to figure out something to do until mid-august. Job, class over the summer, both… We will be sharing the car so we will have to make it work.</p>
<p>Your posts could have written by me.</p>
<p>Talked to son tonight - he was going to double major - math and music. However, he is dyslexic so huge reading requirements will be a no go. Once he found out how much reading would be involved in some of the music classes he decided to go to a music minor. He’s also going to add a computer science minor. So he’ll be math major, music and computer science minor. For now. </p>
<p>He sat on the phone with me tonight as he figured out his new schedule. He registers in the morning.</p>
<p>As we talked through the options all I can say is I don’t think my parents ever talked to me once about my schedule, the classes or how I figured anything to do with a major or graduating.</p>
<p>My parents didn’t really talk to me about future semester schedules, either. I think they trusted me and my advisor to figure it out. And, somehow it all worked out.</p>
<p>Of course, this was back when long distance calling was a big deal, so conversations were shorter and more limited in scope.</p>
<p>My daughter called when she first started working out options for next semester. Other than telling her that I thought her initial proposal was crazy, I don’t think I had a ton of feedback for her. She does know more about the requirements, the workloads of various classes, and the frequency of class offerings than I do.</p>
<p>She did get the all-clear from her advisor on her schedule and she should register tomorrow night. My fingers are crossed that she gets what she wants.</p>
<p>She’s asking for one class at another college, so she won’t find out about that class for a while longer.</p>
<p>eyemamom - My daughter is dyslexic and has arranged with the school for them to get her audio versions of her textbooks. This has allowed her to consider majors that she too would reject due to volumes of reading. Is this an option for your son?</p>
<p>amtc - we have an account with reading for the blind and dyslexic, which will put books on audio for you, but once he heard about how much it was he just didn’t think he could put that amount of time into it and still do everything else well. He was just doing music because he loves it, but a minor would be fine as well. </p>
<p>He had years of tutoring with a phd in linguistics specializing in dyslexia and orton gillingham, and he was looking at linguistics as his cluster, since he spent so many years learning phenomes and lots of linguistics things, but he saw there was a psych cluster also dealing with learning disabilities so he’s choosing that instead. </p>
<p>i still actually like to read “fun facts” about dyslexia… most recent fun fact - many experts now believe that some of the most important military generals were dyslexic as the brain is wired differently for dyslexics and they use different parts of their brains - particularly figuring out patterns.</p>