<p>mamaduck, so sorry to hear about the loss of your mother.</p>
<p>All good here with my kid at Oregon. Finals were harder than he thought they’d be, but they did not count for too much of his final grade so he emerged with all As and Bs for the term, hooray! Computer science emerged as his favorite class, (double hooray), and he’s “declared” that as his major. We’ll see how that goes — we are cautiously optimistic, but it’s a major that definitely gets harder as you progress to upper level courses. He’s making a room switch when he goes back in Jan. —his first roommate was, well, odd— and the housing office swiftly approved the request to move into a friend’s room, whose exchange student roommate has left. He’s happy and even told me the other night he was looking forward to returning to school in January.</p>