Son '14 loves his banking internship! Says the people with whom he works are nice and helpful. He even comes home for lunch since the branch is so close to work. He will be thrilled when he gets his first paycheck in a couple of weeks.
mdcmom: Sorry that your son fell 10 meters before the finish line. Would have been nice to go to states in an individual event. My son qualified in a couple of relays as well as the 800, 1600 and 3200 as a senior. He had to chose two individual events to run at states and one relay. He came within 95 meters of winning the title in the 3200. He remembers blacking out as he headed toward the finish line. He did finish second, but he was pretty spent.
Have your son send out some feelers to other schools. Mine did. He had several small D1 schools looking at him.
Thanks for the good thoughts! We do have some other schools that have reached out to him, but Bryant is a new one . We’re trying to cast a wide net, trying to find an affordable school that is D1 (he insists on that :-/ ) where he could get a good education and make a good contribution to the team. Yay for CC without which we’d be totally lost!
mdcmom: My son also insisted on D1, and he had some schools interested in him. But, those schools were not offering enough academic money, and little or not athletic money. He really wanted to graduate debt-free or as close as he could to debt-free. In the end, he found other interests than running, and now, he talks about attending grad school. He pointed out that he could always run, but internships and doing various community service projects may not be available later. In fact, he will work a track and field camp in a week or so, and I know he is looking forward to that.
The first three sentences could be my DS . Though if he could find a place at a SUNY school I think it will be OK if they don’t give extra scholarships, so that is the most likely route for him. We’re casting a wide net just in case something else pops up.
DD has filled her summer with 3 jobs. She just got hired at a local bakery/cupcake shop which will give her about 20 hours per week. She went in for a working interview on Saturday morning and the shop was so busy she ended up working a full 7 hours. Her boss told her at the end of the day that she was hired and would be paid for the full day. She is volunteering/interning at the Cleveland Clinic in the OT Department as she needs hours for her eventual grad school program applications and she has a full day babysitting job for a family two days per week. She says she is saving for grad school. It is good to see her busy and focused this summer (and making some extra money!)
DS is making good money at his internship, and spending it too! He’s normally a pretty frugal guy and his purchases are for things he’ll use for several years so not really a big deal. He’s also playing at least 36 holes of golf a week and hitting the range a couple of days after work. He and DH are having lots of bonding time on the golf course.
Otherwise a pretty uneventful summer for him. Work, hanging out with friends and family, golf. He will go to UVA one weekend for midsummers and then another weekend for a training camp. No vacations as a family this summer as schedules don’t mesh but we’ll have one over winter break. Just trying to figure out where to go for that one.
Son '14 took two weeks off when he got home. Spent a lot of time doing stuff in NYC with his college friends. He began his internship at a branding/marketing/advertising agency last week. Working hard already. He’s an English lit major and is trying to figure out if he’d eventually like to get a law degree or an MBA, or even a combined degree. He’s take a few Econ classes, too, but his primary academic love is dissecting lit and writing.
Anyway, it’s good to have him home for the summer. He’ll be leaving for the university of Edinburgh right after Labor Day for the fall semester. Purchased his ticket yesterday. So hard to believe that our kids are rising juniors!
You have no idea how that warms my heart, @RenaissanceMom, being a former English major myself!
My son, OTOH, was just telling me how glad he is that, as an engineering major, he’s got most of his writing-intensive classes behind him. He’s taking a public speaking class at the local community college this summer to fulfill one of his social science requirements and to meet the requirement that he take at least one class in between co-op semesters.
He’s enjoying the course, but even the small amount of writing required to prepare for one class is draining. I reminded him that it’s better to struggle at something you’re competent at than to struggle and do badly. (I think he’s actually a pretty good writer.) He says he’s “so slow,” but I keep explaining to him that good writers revise, revise, revise. It’s not a “quick” process, even if you’re good at it.
For him, differential equations and statics are much preferable to a lit class because the former is just a lot easier for him. That’s why I get annoyed when people generalize about “humanities” classes being so much “easier” than hard science. It COMPLETELY depends on the student!
@LucieTheLakie - I wish I could “like” your post a dozen times. My D is an English major. She’s a perfectionist with her writing and has a slow process. Although she writes beautifully and loves literature, I know the endless stream of papers wears her down.
RenaissanceMom: If your son does go the law school route, his writing skills will be a huge asset. My older son is a math kid, but he also is a wonderful writer. His essays got him all kinds of scholarship money at the undergrad level, and they probably helped his admission to law school. Today, he serves as the head writer of a law school comedy show.
The same is not true of Son '14. Hated English class. Was so glad that he had AP/DE credit for college! He really is the family math kid!
@RenaissanceMom My son is going to Glasgow for the fall! We are thinking about going over for a visit while he’s there - a long trip from Hawaii, but a good excuse to get across both ponds. If we go, we’ll be spending at least a night or two in Edinburgh, and maybe visiting London and Wales. DH has never been across the Atlantic, so we’d make it a 10 day or 2 week vacation. Are you thinking about a visit while your son is there?
I’m waiting for him to get a response from the study abroad folks as to whether we can book him from Denver to Glasgow in September and back from Glasgow directly to Hawaii (since it will be in the middle of his school’s winter break) and get reimbursed the travel allowance, or if he has to book round trip back to Denver and do his winter break flights home separately. It’s cheaper the first way but I don’t know if it’s allowed, since they will pay “up to” a specified amount for “round-trip airfare.” As soon as I know that we’ll get on Skype and get the tickets.
He’s not coming home this summer (he has a job teaching at a tech camp that is held right at his college), so will be pretty much on his own for getting needed luggage, clothes, etc. for the trip. But I’ll try to help from afar - thank goodness for Skype! and e-mail!
DS spending summer doing research internship in town. It’s been nice having him staying at home and I am cooking up a storm everyday.
He just found out that he got into physics class for which he was waitlisted. It is important to take that class in junior since he needs to take it prior to taking his MCAT exam. DS really should be studying for the exam this summer but he hasn’t cracked the books. I suppose he is just enjoying his summer at home with internship and catching up with old high school friends and family.
Son just completed summer OChem and Ochem Labs (2 semesters worth)…a very intense experience indeed. Thankfully has the rest of summer to just chill and managed to get A’s in all 4 courses <:-P
Ugh… All of Ochem in a single summer? Yeah, I’d say that’s intense.
I really have had a summer with little to nothing going on. the only kid I have home has fur, and he’s really low maintenance. D is still at her homeland security internship. She has two weeks left. For a CS major, she is oddly not into non face-to-face forms of communication, so I don’t hear much from her.
DS Is loving his job (teaching game programming at a tech camp), he even said the other day that it is making him think about maybe teaching as an option. Never expected that from my introvert! He’s getting excited about going to Scotland, said he’s been getting info about the orientation and has been approved for one of the 3 classes he applied for (he should hear about the other two within a week or so).
He’s been staying with a friend’s family over the summer and apparently they have been very nice to him. He said he “kind of has two families now” which was a little hard to hear but I am glad… it’s kind of like a foreign exchange family, doesn’t take our place just adds more love and cheer for him. I’m glad I remember that exchange experience (I went with AFS for the summer after my HS junior year) to help me put his comment in context. Last summer he was so lonely, I’m really relieved that he’s having such a great time this year. But I do miss him!
Now that I’ve finished moving my office, I have to get serious about a possible trip to the UK for us, in October or November.
We just got back from Australia. We dropped D16. She’s studying for a semester at University of Melbourne. We stopped by for a few days in Auckland, NZ then flew to Melbourne.
Travel is fun but there’s nothing like sleeping on your own bed. Also, driving in NZ/Melbourne was crazy. I have to remind myself all the time to stay left.
DD is working at her college during the week and staying in her apartment, but coming home on weekends which is very sweet . We’re doing a bit of shopping and prepping for her semester abroad in China. She flies out Aug. 30 which is a week after classes start at college, so we get her for an extra week! And then she arrives home on her birthday in December. Poor thing will probably be too jet-lagged for much of a party, though.
. We’re trying to cast a wide net, trying to find an affordable school that is D1 (he insists on that :-/ ) where he could get a good education and make a good contribution to the team. Yay for CC without which we’d be totally lost!