@singermom4 … Sent you a PM.
I have been in and out of service for the past week and can barely keep up with this board. D also has the calc BC AP test looming. Then the following week graduation. Then a family vacation. Then it is June already. Wow. I can’t believe that my kids school year is almost over!
Congratulations on everyone’s decisions. I second the comment that we have a diverse and interesting group. It is fun to see the choices that have resulted.
I figure that everyone needs a bit of chaos in their lives, and as much as I prefer her room to be tidy, if something has to give then better that than her homework or other obligations. It’s funny how many kids on this thread seem to be organized and on top of everything other than their rooms. 
I definitely am in the “slob” club, unfortunately. I could have founded it… the motto for roomstyle is “Like a Tornado Would Fashion It.”
@wolverine86, congrats to your grad, that is quite an accomplishment!
S2 has only 1 ap test, calc B/C tomorrow. Most of his ap’s were taken the previous 2 years. He has a major senior capstone science project that took up the bulk of his time this year. Project is due in 1 week, and ceremony is in 2 weeks. He can breathe easy when that is finished.
Graduation is June 2, my 25th wedding anniversary. Couldn’t think of a better way to spend it!
D spent last night cleaning her room instead of studying for her AP exams. I think she has the same roomstyling motto as @albert69. After two hours of concentrated tidying, there is still a pile of laundry in the middle of her floor. But that was a major improvement—at least you can actually see the floor now. She claims she’s not as messy when she’s sharing a room, but I worry about her roommate next year.
@ITBgirl My DD got a IB diploma and was able to get 24 credits at her school (SUNY Bing)…with some other courses she graduated early and started and completed her Masters all within 4 years (or you could double major, study abroad, etc) So it is worth doing well on the tests.
Good morning, folks! There is no musical theme today, but there is a new Tame Impala album due out next month, and that’s reason enough to start you off with this.
[Tame Impala – “Let It Happen”](Tame Impala - Let It Happen Live on Conan 04/15/15 - YouTube)
BC Calc test tomorrow here as well. Wrestler doesn’t seem too concerned. He is making Eggs Benedict right now. Who does that on a Monday??!!
My D is on the messy room club too, we talked about it this weekend and I said she has to try to pick up after herself this summer to get ready for school. I think “not a neat freak” is code on those roommate boards for “my room at home is a hot mess”!
@bopper, thanks, I know the IB exams will help her with hours, she has also taken corresponding AP exams just to cover herself. She talks about graduating early, but I did that, and I will not push it for her, I am hoping that the extra hours will help her take a lighter load at times, like during a semester abroad.
@Wrestlersmom - now I am hungry!
Calc tomorrow and English on Wednesday for D15, who also doesn’t seem that concerned about either one.
She did make my heart ache a little yesterday when she confided that she feels “like a failure” because she didn’t get into the Ivy to which she applied ED. She also said that some of the girls in her class were making some remarks about her not going to an Ivy for college and that she’s attending an inferior school. A lot of this is silly - she was admitted to an Ivy but chose not to go because she preferred the program at the school that she’ll be attending. A lot of this is just 17 year olds being their usual snarky selves. Nonetheless, it still hurts to see that small sadness in her eyes, even though I know that none of this will matter to her in six months.
No one is required to attend his or her high school reunion. And thank God for that. Your D is going to a wonderful school – and unlike most of the Ivies, it’s actually competent in basketball. I’d say more, but CC has a fairly robust profanity filter.
Add my daughter to the tornado hit the room club. I don’t have great hopes that she will improve next year but you never know. She’s going to have to find someone who is either messier than she is-and I’m not sure that’s possible- or very, very tolerant.
She has 2 AP exams this week and 2 next week…and a nicely timed final today in a different subject. Thanks, you kind, considerate teacher! 
@Wolverine86, congratulations to your very impressive D! Congratulations to all on recent decisions and accomplishments.
@tranquil218, this sort of chatter just underscores how ready our kids are to move on. I sincerely hope your D puts that sort of thought out of her mind immediately. Every single kid can find some sort of flaw in their apps or decisions and feel badly about it. It isn’t nice that classmates actually give voice to that sort of thinking. My daughter is really done with many of the not nice kids in her class. Some of it is precisely due to this sort of insensitivity toward others and some of it is just general fed-up-ness. One classmate is off her approved list because of an annoying laugh. I was incredulous at that one.
Shout out to all the IB parents out there. And so it begins…
D15 just IM’d me after her first IB exam. Seemed in very good spirits. So one down. Forgot how many more there are. Counting in weeks.
Anyone else’s DC not wanting to participate in end of the year senior activities? S is not going to Prom, Post Prom, Senior Band Banquet at Gamesworks, may attend Senior Breakfast.
S has never attended dances (well, one Homecoming Dance because I said he should try it once) - not into the big social scene and prefers to hang with just a few friends. When asked about the best part of high school he says its the friends he’s made so lack of social contact isn’t it.
I feel like he’s missing out on a major life event - maybe it’s just me missing out on it? I know friends have asked him to go in a group so he doesn’t need to find a date.
I am greatly relieved to hear that there are many other kids on this list who sound as slovenly as mine. I’ve been getting increasingly distressed this year imagining how a future roommate will deal with her!
4 AP’s this week (Spanish, English, Calc BC and Studio Art, which is actually a final packaging of the portfolio - no number 2 pencil required) and 4 more next week (Physics x2 and Econ x2). The upside is that her school allows them to skip finals if they take the AP test. So by next Friday afternoon, she is all done with academics.
S has 1 AP exam this week (Lit). Four next week (Phys C:Mech, US Govt&Pol, Stats, and Micro). Needless to say many other things have fallen by the wayside (mainly his laundry). He laughed when he was filling out the housing app stating that he wasn’t neat at all (that is putting it mildly). And I realized I never stated where he is going - Northeastern University.
Wrestler’s room is equally a disaster — as is the kitchen now that he finished making breakfast!!!
@singersmom4, does he have a group that he’d like to hang with? I can totally see not going to Senior Prom - but would encourage him (and perhaps incentivize financially) to plan some sort of fun alternative. For example, hosting something at your home (board games night, etc.) with other non-Prom going friends or going out to dinner with a couple friends.
If all his friends are going to prom in a group, perhaps he could join the post prom with them if he doesn’t want to go to the dance. Our schools post prom is open to all seniors and plenty of kids go and enjoy that (for free) even if they’ve skipped the dance.
She will, however, need to bring a pen. 