<p>Barnardmom- I am really sending good thoughts your daughters way… So scary</p>
<p>I hope it’s not too late to join this thread. My D is a freshman at Yale this year and we’ve experienced a lot of the first year pains that you all have discussed – homesickness, roommates (this year and next), concerns about majors, internships, etc. Love the support I’m seeing in this group!</p>
<p>Welcome, Yaliesmom!</p>
<p>Thanks so much, PinotNoir! I can hardly believe that freshman year is almost over . . . and that I survived! Three more weeks – how about you, when does your son finish?</p>
<p>Barnardmom - I really hope the two of you can get to the bottom of whatever it is - and I definitely hope her vision returns!</p>
<p>Yaliesmom - welcome! It’s never too late to join IMO. Pinotnoir’s son and mine (and a few others on here) go to U Rochester. My guy is finished May 11th - the day before his birthday - which also happens to be Mother’s Day this year. I don’t know that my guy is coming home though. We live semi-rural and he feels (correctly) that there are more summer opportunities there rather than here. Time will tell. At the very least, I might take a day or two off work (I work at our high school) so hubby and I can go up there to be with him (birthday and moving out of the dorm or whatever). Youngest would have to stay here for school… so we’re still mulling the whole “end of the year” stuff. It’s one month from today. Yikes! and WOW!!!</p>
<p>Thanks so much for the warm welcome! That is so great that CC friends have kids attending the same school :)<br>
I’m thankful that my D still plans to be home this summer, I’m sure there won’t be too many more like this in my future! I think the long, hard winter made her long for the warmer climate of home!</p>
<p>My D2 <em>finally</em> knows where she’s going to live next year!</p>
<p>She has been searching for off-campus housing since January. The housing market near campus is incredibly tight, and she applied for several good prospects, each time losing out to savvier upper-classmen. But she learned that when something good comes up she needs to jump on it right away. So this past weekend, she and a group of friends (4 girls, 2 boys) visited an open house a half-mile from campus. They liked what they saw, so all got their paperwork in that same day and had parents fax in cosign forms Monday morning. And now they’ve got a signed lease agreement!</p>
<p>It’s a 3bdrm 2ba apartment that comprises the entire top floor of a small (5-unit) building. Professionally managed. Hardwood floors, and a recently-remodeled kitchen. Onsite laundry, and a shared patio with a built-in brick BBQ. There’s enclosed outdoor storage, and a covered carport. (None of them have a car, but it’ll be useful for bikes.) It’s <10 min walk, through a nice neighborhood, to the engineering quad where she takes most of her classes. </p>
<p>Just around the block there’s a little shopping area with handful of eateries, gourmet coffee, and a convenience store. It’s <1mi walk to a bigger shopping area with lots of restaurants and stores including a Trader Joe’s. There are bus routes and two zipcar stations within a quarter-mile. So easy easy access to anything she could possibly need.</p>
<p>It’s a 12-mo lease, starting June 1, so she’ll have to pay rent over the summer. But even taking that into account, and allowing for utilities, the cost will be ~half of what she pays in the dorms.</p>
<p>Welcome Yaliesmom.</p>
<p>If all goes well then 4 weeks from today at right around now or a little earlier we will be getting home from picking up D</p>
<p>Thanks jmnva06! I’m getting a little nervous about the move out process. There was a lot of help during move-in by upperclassmen, but I don’t think there will be the same at move out! We hear that the residential colleges have a small amount of storage available for students, but I have a D, and I’m not sure the amount of storage provided will cut it! We’re exploring storage units nearby for the summer.</p>
<p>Welcome Yaliesmom!</p>
<p>I don’t post to this thread often, but have to say how jealous I am of all of you whose kids will be done in May! My S’s school is on quarters and he doesn’t get out until mid-June. And, to make it worse, he’s planning to stay on campus this summer doing research for a professor. It’s a great opportunity for him, but I was really hoping he’d be home this summer. I think he was hoping the same thing, but the opportunity came up, and since he didn’t really look into anything closer to home before he had to make a decision, it was kind of made for him. The worst thing about it is that he’ll only have about a week (maybe less) between when spring quarter ends and when his summer position starts, which will be the only time we can take any kind of family vacation this summer. My daughter who’s in HS starts back to school on Aug. 12 and he won’t be done with his stint until the end of August. Ughhhh! It just makes me so sad. I wasn’t ready for this to happen yet.</p>
<p>Drama, drama, drama-S was all set for housing next year. Knew what bldg he would be in and that it only had 1 RM. Was told by his RA in just a casual conversation that the bldg he was supposed to be in will not be used for housing next year and said where those students would be placed (another bldg). The problem is, the new bldg according to the website is all quads. 3 RM’s…S is freaking out! But-will go to housing today to see what the real situation is. I am almost confident that he will still be in a room with just 1 RM. Or-if worse comes to worse, he can ask to switch bldgs to another with that room type or switch to a single.</p>
<p>It was just about a week ago they went online a picked their actual rooms and nothing was indicated that there was a bldg change. Fingers crossed again that this works out in his favor. I feel like I have been crossing these fingers a lot lately! I did remind him that housing was great when he needed to switch rooms and it is not their fault (in the office) so be kind when working this out.</p>
<p>Sounds like great housing Mihcal!</p>
<p>Sorry to hear about potential housing issues Nellie!</p>
<p>Middle son sent us a quick e-mail last night with a link to an article he wrote (between classes two days ago) that was published in the college newspaper… It’s interesting to see where their interests lead them when they leave home. This article is about only one of the “totally new” things in his life… </p>
<p>[ASL</a>, or how I learned to appreciate the sounds of silence | Campus Times](<a href=“http://www.campustimes.org/2013/04/11/asl-or-how-i-learned-to-appreciate-the-sounds-of-silence/]ASL”>http://www.campustimes.org/2013/04/11/asl-or-how-i-learned-to-appreciate-the-sounds-of-silence/)</p>
<p>Well-written article and such great insight into ASL! Thanks for the link.</p>
<p>Hi all - </p>
<p>I am back on the boards as S2 is a Junior this year and we are getting ready to do this college thing again. So, I thought I would visit the HS Class of 2012 folks! S1 is doing pretty well at WM. He decided early on to major in Physics (which was somewhat of a surprise for my Econ and English loving child) and minor in Philosophy and in actuality with the amount of math that is “strongly suggested” but not required - he will basically have a math minor as well (you cannot double minor!) I am a little worried that down the road he will change his mind but so far he seems committed.</p>
<p>I would love him to do a semester abroad but WM only gives you credit but no grades. I have asked him to ask around about if this has an affect on grad school applications. Has anyone here heard that?</p>
<p>S1 only applied for a couple of internships this summer and I am pretty sure with the general landscape he will not be offered anything. Seems like everyone wants Juniors and Seniors. I told him he will have to come home and start “knocking on doors”. After I had said this a couple of times, he asked me what I meant by that - really?!? He said you mean residential doors? Are you in college! I had to explain what I meant! We will see what the summer holds! Push comes to shove I think he will take a math class at the CC.</p>
<p>Creekland - my daughter is desperate to take ASL, for reasons unbeknownst to me! She tried to take it this term but was closed out so she’s decided to take it over the summer. I’m going to forward your sons article, thanks!</p>
<p>Welcome Yaliesmom! Always nice to have a new addition to the thread…</p>
<p>Creekland- love the article, so well written…</p>
<p>Nervousnellie- hope the housing issue works out for your son… </p>
<p>Mihcal1- Your D’s apartment sounds great… </p>
<p>Still happy to know that we have 2 years of housing figured out and won’t have to stress for another 1.5 years on that front…</p>
<p>Headed to see D this weekend for Parents Weekend… Can’t wait to see her, I am going to help her pack up some stuff and bring it home this weekend. Hubby will not be home when school ends so I get to move her home myself, that does not excite me at all. </p>
<p>Lots of fun stuff going on for parents weekend including a banquet for honor society induction on Sunday. Happy weekend all</p>
<p>At our HS, students can take ASL as their language. I kind of knew that in my head, but didn’t think of it in time to recommend it to my HS sophomore. I think he would have loved it - instead, he’s suffering through Spanish class.</p>
<p>Housing crisis averted…seems they are just moving everything (room styles, room assignments, etc…) from one bldg to the other. I figured that was a possibility and the best possible outcome. </p>
<p>Hoping for S to stop stressing-at least for a little bit. I am thinking he may be working himself into an ulcer if he doesn’t learn to relax and find the good in things… :-)</p>
<p>mihcal1,</p>
<p>Wow, that’s a great deal! Half of the dorm cost? Yeah for that!</p>
<p>Creekland, </p>
<p>Very cool reading about your son’s immersion into ASL and the deaf community! I am a former deaf ed. teacher. I still interpret at my church but my ASL skills are pretty rusty, for sure.</p>
<p>Mom2jl,</p>
<p>Aw, I feel for you. It’s hard not having our kids home all summer. My son, too, will most likely stay on campus and do research this summer and I was getting used to the idea of his coming home. He applied to a lot of internships but got nary a bite but was then offered the chance to work with one of his profs and will likely take it.</p>
<p>His prof did say he could come home after school gets out for at least a couple of weeks, so we do get to see him but not as much as I hoped. 
I was still hoping something else would work out (like an internship here but as Cal 1983 said, in certain fields, most of the internships are going to juniors and seniors, though my son’s friend got a very high paying financial internship as a freshman but he’s beyond most juniors and seniors in his abilities).</p>
<p>I miss my son!</p>
<p>NervousNellie,</p>
<p>Glad things worked out. That really can be stressful.</p>
<p>My son is in charge of matching roommates (rooming chair-elect), so I think he has a choice of where he can live in his dorm next year. He and his roomy from this year will stay together as it’s worked very well. I’m guessing they’ll be scouting out the best dorm. :-)</p>
<p>Like Cal1983, I’m coming back to CC now that D2 is a junior. It’s great to read about all the college 2016 kids.</p>
<p>My D has had a great year so far. She has considered several potential majors or double majors, but hasn’t committed yet. But she seems to be going the humanities route rather than science as originally planned.</p>
<p>D got to spend Spring Break in Ireland with her Irish Literature seminar class. It sounds like it was amazing.</p>
<p>She will take a month off an visit family this summer and then work on campus at a camp for middle school kids.</p>