So glad I came over here. Wow, PhD programs and law schools! Such an amazing group!
@oldfort, kuddos to your D2 for weathering those very difficult storms.Please let us know where she lands.
As for us, S16 and his fiancee’, also a 16 from MIT, will marry in less than three months. She’s got her job secure (they chose to take one of her offers and move there rather than stay in Boston and take his offer) and I think he’ll be nailing down his job when they go house hunting in April.
So no grad school for now, though her job will pay for her to go, so never say never.
Thank you, @oldfort! There might be others out there, but this thread is pretty quiet, so who knows?
We are excited, but I’m probably even more excited that they’ll be within 5 1/2 hours of us-quick drive over is way better than a flight across the country once in a blue moon, ha-ha.
LOL, @texaspg. I don’t think 22 is too young to get married, and I guess he and his finacee don’t, either. Neither wants to go to grad school (for now), and they’ve been dating for two years+ (and best friends for 3 years+), so it makes sense, particularly for Christian kids who believe in chastity before marriage.
He’ll graduate with a math degree, or maybe math/cs? He’s a Data Scientist and she’s a MechE (if I didn’t already say that).
Congratulations to your D on medical school!! Funny-I think there are a lot of kids that switch coasts for grad school. I know a young man that is now at Stanford for his PhD after doing u/g at MIT. He’s loving the weather!
@oldfort, we’ve been on the same threads for the past 4 or so years and I know your family’s gone through many changes. Your D sounds like she has a bright future ahead of her and she’s stronger having faced these challenges. Good luck to her with the big decision she’ll be making soon. Does her chosen law school have the LRAP program? (I hope I have the name right.) Its a repayment program for law students who go into public service.
My D is in a similar situation. She, too, wants to go into public service and has a job offer with a nonprofit in DC. She knows she can defer her law school admission but needs to find out if she gives up the money they’ve offered.
@sbjdorlo, wow, a wedding! Congratulations to your son!
@texaspg, congrats to your D on her med school plans!
Wow, congratulations to all of the parents of 2012! So many exciting directions that your children are heading.
It’s been a long while since I’ve checked this forum.
S finished classes this quarter, so will be enjoying time with friends and TAing for a class next quarter. He was not interested in further education at this time and accepted a job from a CS startup company in CA in December. He was lucky enough to have a well-paying internship last summer, so will be spending some time traveling in Europe this summer.
Hard to believe both kids will have graduated next fall, good thing I work at a University so I’m still connected to academe.
Wow! So much great news. Just dropped DD off at the airport to return to college . . . for the last time! We will be flying east in just 8 1/2 weeks for graduation. Thanks to all for allowing us to share the ride.
S2 is still looking for a job it’s so discouraging and stressful …his gf has been accepted at her grad school of choice so he’s really feeling the pressure to find something so they can be together. Plus, he’s busy with semester-end projects up to his eyeballs. Roommate went to a job fair, was offered a high 5-figure salary then and there. He’s fot a great resume and is applying widely, but nothing. Rarely does he even get acknowledgement of the application! 6 weeks until graduation…
April 1st is the MCAT for my '16 guy. I know he’ll be far more relieved once that’s over. The Easter Bunny sent him a goodie box. I hope he took the time to fetch it from the post office!
D2 may ask for deferment, but the problem with that is the money she is offered may not follow, and it would be a commitment now for the school she would be going to 2 years from now.
Sounds like lilmom’s D is in the same situation as D2.
It would be too bad if people are going to public service and the schools don’t want to keep their promise of money if they defer. That should be the primary reason to keep the money.
@texaspg - I’m hoping they can tell me in another month (maybe two). I’ve gone through close to 2 years now of their telling me everything I was experiencing was due to stress. Meanwhile it’s progressively gotten worse, but it was variable, so not easy to figure out. Now it’s progressed enough there are constant things they can see. They’re no longer saying stress… but I don’t actually have answers yet. Time will tell.
Things that aren’t wrong are just fine, so life goes on more or less as normal. (I only bought the stress story for 4-6 months, but it never mattered what I thought.) Things that are wrong getting worse has been the major stress in my life.
I’ll admit if they end up finding that whatever is wrong would have been easier to treat if caught early, I’ll probably be a wee bit livid rather than frustrated, but I remain hopeful it’s merely something relatively minor that can get fixed and all will be well now that they’ve actually agreed something is indeed wrong.
I regret not making sure my '16 guy graduated from school after 4th grade so he’d have had time to be finished with med school & perhaps residency by now. I really wasn’t looking forward enough then! And now, of course, he has been accepted to a 5th year program at his school, then will be trying for MSTP, so could be three more years down the road from a “normal” schedule.
So DD heard today that she was awarded a Fulbright student research grant after graduation. Ironically it was one hour after she texted me that she had put in a job application because the waiting was making her crazy. Stupendously happy for her. This is her dream project. Very proud of her, and a little sad for me that she will once again be thousands of miles away.
it’s so discouraging and stressful …his gf has been accepted at her grad school of choice so he’s really feeling the pressure to find something so they can be together. Plus, he’s busy with semester-end projects up to his eyeballs. Roommate went to a job fair, was offered a high 5-figure salary then and there. He’s fot a great resume and is applying widely, but nothing. Rarely does he even get acknowledgement of the application! 6 weeks until graduation…