<p>@Agentninetynine - I was feeling a bit sad lately because my D shares a room with three other girls and for some reason does not click with them. I was hoping she would become bffs with at least one of them. But everyone is very nice and respectful in every way so she assures me she is ok and has met lots of friends. Then I read your post and I stopped feeling bad about my D and started feeling bad for your spygirl!!! Really hope things work out our get resolved quickly. Please keep us posted!</p>
<p>My D is out at Target getting essentials before classes begin tomorrow. These are the “essentials”: a watermelon, cup 'o noodles, ant traps, and scar removal. I’m not sure if she was playing with me regarding the last item.</p>
<p>She didn’t get a good slot for registration. She registers at 5:00 pm today and classes start tomorrow. At least you don’t have a lot of time to stress out about your classes.</p>
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Don’t forget that if you are considering an Apple that their annual fall student special ($50 or $100 gift card with a computer or iPod) will end in early September (check w/Apple as I don’t recall the date) and be sure to get education pricing which is usually $100 off their regular price. The school may also have a special program. Our DD already had her computer but the school offered (actually told them they had to use it for their documents and submittals in class) all of their students the latest MS Office suite for PC or Mac for just $9.99 for the full download. Sure beats $100 plus at retail!!!</p>
<p>My D seems to be getting along with room mate very well. Has met lots of kids. But she seems alarmed that she doesn’t have a “Gang” yet. She’s had a few kids in to play cards etc. somehow she has it in her head that she needs to nail down the social thing in first week of school or it’s over. Is it just me or is this just plain kookie? She’s a bit shy so I think she’s anxious to get it all perfect in college. Seems to me she’s doing great but hey, what do I know?</p>
<p>Drop off was okay. DD she seems okay. I think I’m okay. Roommate seems okay. I am cautiously excited. </p>
<p>DD met up with a girl from orientation she had a lot in common with. Textbooks are in place. </p>
<p>I don’t know how I feel. Hard not to feel deflated. Back to work today. And a new HBP med has me covered in hives so the doctor today. Life does go on.</p>
<p>BTW, move in day in Boston in our area was smooth and empty. The schools in the area must coordinated well and by doing it on Sunday the businesses and hospital offices were closed. Saw some moving vans but we were not in the off campus student areas.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for your stories.</p>
<p>My chill, non adventurous, non extreme sports or anything extreme went cliff jumping into the river yesterday with her new college friends…and lived it!</p>
<p>Senior year of high school is filled with "lasts"and freshman year of college is definitely filled with “firsts” in this family anyway! I never would have thought my D would do that. Feeling happy today.</p>
<p>One thing I reminded my daughter, you don’t need to make all your friends the first week! Many people will cling together at first, but friends will shift around. Nothing needs to be set in stone that quickly. My daughter observed something interesting, she said it seems like all the guys want girlfriends right off the bat, but all the girls she knows just want to be free.</p>
<p>I tried calling DS several times throughout the day yesterday. He finally answered and said, don’t call me while I’m in class. Oops, I thought they had labor day off!</p>
<p>Reading stories up thread, I feel bad for kids who are having roommate problems. It sounds like DS and roommate are getting along perfectly. They have the same class time. One takes shower at night and the other in the morning. DS even said they are becoming best friends. </p>
<p>So happy to hear about the successful launch stories and good roommate situations and hope the not so successful situations work themselves out!</p>
<p>We moved DD into school on Saturday. It went very well logistically. We arrived first and DD was able to choose her bed - she really wanted to be by the window as that’s the way she sleeps at home. Roommate arrived when we had almost all the stuff moved in and sitting in the middle of the room! They got a chance to meet and chat for a bit and then roommate went off to pick up her stuff at BB&B. We unpacked stuff into the closet but didn’t want to do too much more until roommate got back so they could figure out where to put the rest of the furniture. They rearranged the other bed and desks/dressers and did more unpacking. Roommate seems nice but much less bubbly than DD is. Hopefully it will all work out. Also me the two girls across the hall from DD who also seem very nice! And small world - DD’s RA was two years ahead of her at her high school and lives in the next door room! There are only three kids from the high school at college, one each year, so the chances of them being next door to each other are so small.</p>
<p>DD and I worked well together doing the unpacking. She seemed to welcome the assistance and I didn’t seem to overstep anywhere! We had a nice lunch and grabbed some command tape from the bookstore to hang up her pictures (all the pre literature had said they couldn’t use it but the stuff in the room said they could!!) Brought home that night the things she decided wouldn’t work in the room and made a list of what to bring from home on Sunday. Since we’re only half an hour away, we were going back and forth. They have a HUGE room and so her saucer chair from her home room will fit nicely in her dorm room and offer her roommate a chair by the other window or others a place to sit.</p>
<p>They went to dinner with a large group from the dorm Saturday night and then wandered around campus for a while after their dorm meeting. She was a bit surprised that roommate and a couple of friends were looking for a party and/or booze. That’s not her and I guess she was like - well I’ll wander around with you but I’m not really interested! Hopefully she’ll find some of her people soon!</p>
<p>Leaving her on Sunday after the big speech by the president to the kids and parents was actually not as hard as I thought. I know she’s excited to be there and looking forward to everything! I spent yesterday cleaning the kids bathroom and some of her room. It will take the rest of the week to finish deep cleaning her room! Texted her today about anything else I needed to send to her (she left her favorite flip flops here). Got a response that things were going well, her meeting with the community service group she got into went well yesterday and she got an override code from the professor to get into the theatre class she really wanted to get into that accepts less than 20 so that was wonderful! And then I really started to feel her absence! But I’ll survive - just hope to get a chance to talk with her sometime soon!</p>
<p>DS actually called today. Silly me, thought he might want to talk and share what he’d been up to, nope just needed his ss# and I hadn’t responded to the text quickly enough. Oh well, he’s taking care of loose ends so that’s good and maybe I’ll get more than “good” in a text message soon.</p>
<p>I got a text today “Nomen mihi ____ est” My name is… In Latin. LOL. He’s worried about Latin but loved his Research program (which will also be his work study) seminar. He thinks his social sciences class will be ok. He has his other class tomorrow. </p>
<p>And I had great news today. My surgery will be laparoscopic so my recovery time will MUCH shorter than the last time I had similar surgery. That time I had a 10 inch vertical incision that started just above my belly button and went down. That was tough. This will be a cake walk in comparison :)</p>
<p>@2016BarnardMom I’m so glad you got good news on the surgery! I was worried about you facing such a major ordeal!</p>
<p>Great news about the laproscopic surgery @Barnardmom !</p>
<p>@2016BarnardMom - Good news on the surgery. Hope all goes well.</p>
<p>DD’s flight home for fall break (they get a full weekin October!) and Thanksgiving are done. Next is Christmas break. Also working on DS’s flights for TG and Christmas. It never ends! Glad when this year is over and we only have one in college that we have to fly home. DS will graduate in May and is then on his own with either a job or grad/law school.</p>
<p>@2016BarnardMom - Great news on the surgery! Wishing you a speedy and uneventful recovery. Also, love the txt in Latin…</p>
<p>Well…I Skyped with my son yesterday…He was folding laundry and seemed happy ! He hasn’t joined any clubs yet -wants to see what the work load is like. He said so far it is really easy but he suspects the workload will pick up. He really likes his honors English class because they have great discussions and everyone gets to speak- an issue for him in the past. He also mentioned that he eats most meals with one of his suite mates. It makes me happy knowing he was not eating alone. Overall, I got the feeling that he seemed fine and doing what he wants. It was fun to watch him fold his laundry - at one point he took out the Direct Devil and tried vacuuming the wrinkles out of his shirts - LOL…</p>
<p>I hope it all works out for the kids having roommate issues! My friend’s son last year opted for a substance free dorm and his roommate came home late and drunk often-he asked him “why did you choose this dorm if you are drinking all the time”, the roommate responds…“I didn’t want a roommate who was waking me up in the middle of the night” …It got worse …he started bringing girls into the room and having sex in the next bed…not cool…
A bed in another room opened up on another floor and my friend’s son opted to move there…so it does work out…This year he is in a apartment on campus with a bunch of kids that he meet in a pre-freshman program. He is happy! </p>
<p>I am looking forward to seeing my S in October -about 4 weeks from now!</p>
<p>I put it in my mind yesterday that I would not call or text my D because I’ve been doing it just about every day since she left for college. And at about 930 last night she texted me yippee! I am so glad she doesn’t seem to mind my texting and calling her while I am adjusting to give her freedom.</p>
<p>Well it was bound to happen, d is really sick at school - fever, deep cough, achey all over, sore throat and ears. Another girl and her boyfriend on the floor were also sick so the boyfriend took them all to a clinic. They gave d a cortisone shot for her sinuses and a script for an anti-biotic. She feels miserable, but knows she will survive. Apparently quite a few kids on the floor have bronchitis.</p>
<p>@2016BarnardMom - So happy to hear the good news! I hope everything goes well and that you recover quickly!</p>
<p>@onlyonemom - Thanks for starting my day with a good laugh - “he took out the Dirt Devil and tried vacuuming the wrinkles out of his shirts” - too funny!! Also glad to hear that your S is happy at school!</p>
<p>@cakeisgreat - I’ve only talked to D twice, both times when she went off campus to deal with her prescriptions (finally got that nightmare straightened out!), because she has horrible cell reception on campus. We’ve been texting everyday as well, but her answers seemed short yesterday. It was her long class day so maybe she was just busy. I’m going to refrain from texting today though and see what happens. Hoping I get a text too</p>
<p>@akmom124 and @evergreen1929- Glad you had a successful launches!</p>
<p>@Agentninetynine - How is Spygirl doing with the roommate situation? Any improvement? Hugs to you and Spygirl! </p>
<p>@eyemamom I’m so sorry and can sympathize! Just 3 days into orientation we received a text saying D had a 102 fever and was sick in bed. She missed a day of orientation but luckily it was the weekend and nothing terribly crucial. her friends were really sweet and brought her tea, soup, juice, etc. She was over it in 48 hours.</p>
<p>I am SURE getting sick had something to do with her (probably) eating nothing but candy and cookies and coffee in the first 3 days of being on her own 
She’s historically been very susceptible to colds/flus when she doesn’t take care of herself. Hopefully this is something she will learn for herself before it becomes a big issue and she misses lots of class time (I worry about this, can’t you tell?)</p>
<p>Hope your D feels better soon too!</p>
<p>@Agentninetynine Yes, what’s the roommate update? I’ve been worrying about that!</p>