<p>Yay, bookmouse!!</p>
<p>Good news, bookmouse! BarnardGirl is doing an unpaid internship with the fund manager of a non-profit in Detroit. The non-profit is working on neighborhood improvement projects in a pretty rough area of the city. She is over the moon excited about it after her first two days there. She said she has a lot to learn but feels it is very valuable experience. The internship is 15 hours a week so she’s looking for a paying job also. </p>
<p>Grades are coming in and, so far, they are better than first term, even with all the medical issues and missing two weeks of classes. She did have to take an incomplete for one class but will have the paper written for that class soon. She has a few more weeks to get it done. All things considered, it all worked out. </p>
<p>She has a doctor appointment tomorrow with the specialist that her NYC specialist recommended. She has gotten a little bit of her peripheral vision back since the spinal tap, but not a lot. I hope it continues to improve.</p>
<p>I hope so too 2016BarnardMom.</p>
<p>Happy to hear BarnardGirl is regaining peripheral vision albeit only a little. Is there anything she can do to help the vision improve?</p>
<p>hoping for good continued progress for BarnardGirl, and yay for the good term! Also yay for bookmouse’s S :D</p>
<p>It sounded like the nerve is either going to heal or it won’t. It’s just a waiting game to see if it will. She’s also still in the window that all improvement right now could be due to the spinal tap. Her NYC doc said the spinal tap will give relief for about 2 months. Hopefully the medication is working and the condition itself won’t return at that time.</p>
<p>Usually I check in on this thread but don’t post much. I see the new home that we have, and I guess it is a good place. Glad to hear about everyone’s end to first year. My DD finished as well. It was a year filled with ups and downs, and a range of emotions, high and low. A great deal of growth took place. She returns next year, and although she will have a less than ideal living situation, she worked it out on her own, so I think that counts for a lot. She did not have the best alternatives given a bad lottery number for campus housing. </p>
<p>I was amazed at move out. In addition to a 30 yard dumpster of garbage from a dorm of 250 or so kids, the free cycle pile was huge as well. So many things that were not needed or could not be kept. I sent 5 boxes home UPS, but we had plenty of trash and a couple of giveaways too. All the bedding I bought last year will not fit next year’s bed, but who knows what will happen after that. I don’t remember all that trash accumulating when I was in school, but I am perhaps too old to really remember. We used to be able to store boxes if we were returning to the dorms in my day. </p>
<p>Best regards to all.</p>
<p>D has 3 more weeks to go. I am going to hire her 2 days a week in my office. We are getting busier and the PT assistant would prefer one day week since her husband retired. So I will train D to clean up rooms, set up rooms and run the lab. Then I’ll get her comfortable with some chairside procedures. </p>
<p>She really is the child most likely to follow in my footsteps, but until last week when her advisor suggested she look into dentistry, she was reluctant. Good way to try out the career and make some money.</p>
<p>Plus my staff has known her since birth, they are excited to have her, and we can use the help through the summer. With her house-sitting and caterer-helper jobs, she will earn some money for foreign study.</p>
<p>She signed up for next fall’s classes: organic chem, sophomore writing seminar, stats. With her sport and being an intro chem TA, she’ll be busy.</p>
<p>BarnardMom, best of luck to your daughter and I hope she continues to improve and enjoy her internship. Good health is probably our most undervalued treasure.</p>
<p>Son is getting a drug test and a background check for his cyber security internship. They are already talking about keeping him on part time during the school year if all goes well (it’s within reasonable driving distance of the University and our home). Such a happy break after he sent out many applications and was so disappointed not to have heard back from most of them. The only sad part now is that he’ll have to miss our family vacation in August. </p>
<p>Congrats to all on helping our kids get through their first year of college and on having them home again, if only for a short time.</p>
<p>bookmouse- I’m in cyber security. It’s an amazing field that is growing very fast and will continue to be strong for a very long time. I strongly recommend any kid interested in computers to go in that direction. The threats in today’s environment are vast and security experts are in very, very high demand. It is truly a fascinating field!</p>
<p>Barnardgirl had her appointment today. I don’t know what these measurements refer to, but at her first visit with the neuro-ophthalmologist, her peripheral vision was -5. After the spinal tap, it was -2.5 and today, it was -1.4. There is definitely significant improvement! She said the doctor she saw today had a very different approach and said that after he sees her at the end of July, he may lower her medication dosage. The doc in NYC thought he would keep increasing it. We’ll see how that all plays out. </p>
<p>More of her grades are coming in and she is doing better than she expected. She still has an essay to do to get rid of an incomplete. But, even with all the medical issues and missing two weeks of classes, she did better second term than first term. Yay!</p>
<p>Great news all around, BarnardMom! I am so impressed with your daughter-to have gotten better grades this semester with all that she’s gone through is simply amazing! So glad to hear the vision is improving, too. Yes!!</p>
<p>My kid is home from college, started her paid internship this week at a cultural/business-related non-profit organization in our area. We have an international student who attended D’s college for the past year staying at our house this week on her way back to her home country. (If you know anything about my D, I bet you can guess which country that is!) They just got back from going to Medieval Times together and the international student loved it. LOL </p>
<p>D flies back to her college for a few days in early June. Her big scholarship program is hosting their national leadership conference for all the colleges that participate in some version of that scholarship program. Each of the 70 colleges sends two student reps from their campus programs and D got selected to represent her college. Her school is paying for her airfare and she’ll stay in a campus house with the 2nd student rep from her college and several other students from their scholarship program who will be working as hosts and leading social activities for the leadership conference attendees. All the reps from other colleges will be staying in a dorm but I think my D will kind of have a foot in both camps as a designated rep and also as being from the host campus so is staying in the campus house with about 7-8 scholarship program pals. </p>
<p>She was supposed to work 35-hour weeks this summer for her internship but they’ve decided they’ll probably have just enough work for her most weeks to do only 28 hours with a some longer weeks occasionally. So she’ll work M-TH with Fri/Sat/Sun off. I kind of wish I had 3-day weekends all the time. LOL Having some extra free time will even help with her plans for studying more Japanese this summer to skip the next class in her language sequence. </p>
<p>Semester grades have been delayed due to a big power outage on campus on the day grades were supposed to be submitted this week. There are some big construction projects going on at her college right now so not sure if that was the cause of the huge power failure this week!</p>
<p>So great to hear 16Barnardmom! Hopeful she will have a wonderful summer.</p>
<p>great to hear kids getting into the summer groove. D has had two weeks of work so far and has her first day off today (requested not to have one last week) I see on facebook that she went out with her coworkers last night, so that is good. Hope to talk to her today or sometime this weekend.</p>
<p>DD has been home for almost 2 weeks and is working for her father in his Collision Repair Shop. My little dancer is sanding, sandblasting, priming, and generally doing all his grunt work lol. Then at night she has been teaching dance at a local studio when they need her (two nights this past week). She “guest starred” in her former studio’s recital this past weekend and it was very nice to see her dance again in person. She has grown so much as a dancer this past year. Glad to see the tuition was well spent.</p>
<p>Socially, she is laying very low. Went out with friends last Saturday night but other than that she basically is working and sleeping. </p>
<p>This will all be short lived though as she is slated to move back to her college city in July (she has an apartment for next year and a job there to go back to).</p>
<p>Glad to hear of the eyesight improvement, Barnardmom!</p>
<p>Also glad to hear our offspring have found their niches for the summer!</p>
<p>Momof3Stars,</p>
<p>My 15 year old would <em>love</em> that job!!</p>
<p>sbjdorlo, my DD does love it! Not the sandblasting so much but she loves the fact that she does a job that most of her guy friends would love to have. She has been welding since she was very young as well. And she gets to spend quality time with DH (which is at a premium these days). My DH is notoriously persnickety about the work that goes out of his shop and DD is the only employee he has ever had that works up to his expectations lol.</p>
<p>So good to hear things are improving, Barnardmom. I hope the improvements continue!</p>
<p>So many cool summer jobs! What a talented crew.</p>