No @towinanddone. Only one campus. There are decorative fences but the campus is not closed and no access is restricted.
@deborahb I would definitely politely correct the poster as suggested by @vmt.
@MDCMOM said
“DS is working at a summer camp away from home, and I’m missing him! I stalk the camp’s site looking for photos of him sometimes. Creepy, I know.”
LOL Same here!! DS17 is a camp counselor about 2.5 hours north of us. The camp is great about posting pictures, so every day so we scour the website to see if we can spot him. DH is worse than me! DS is clearly having the time of his life and not missing us a bit.
Also, @MDCMom, congratulations to your S for a great first year! Sounds like he is definitely in the right place!
D15 finished her first year as a ChemE major and likes it so far. She knows this year will be very challenging and if she can get through it successfully then the rest should be manageable. She’s also declared a dance minor, but I’m not sure she’ll stick with that. Time will tell. Loves her school but sometimes wishes it were a little smaller.
D is home for only 5 more weeks, working two jobs with reasonable hours and keeping in touch with her college friends online and chats. Not many of her HS friends are around this summer, but she doesn’t seem to mind. We all know that this is likely to be her last summer at home, and school is on the opposite coast. She’ll fly back on her own about 5 days before classes start (so different from last year when we flew out together), organize the delivery of her stored boxes and get her books ordered. She is super excited to move into an (school owned) apartment with 3 friends and moving past the craziness of freshmen year. One of her college friends was in town last month and stayed with us for 5 or 6 days - she was a great kid and good friend. It makes me so happy to know D has a good support system because sometimes in HS she struggled socially to find her place.
@deborahb I would just respond to the original poster but show evidence…e.g… links to the honors programs or pictures of the lack of gates
@deborahb I’m familiar with the thread you mean, and I think you’ve done all you can do. The other poster is getting cranky and pushing it now will just spiral downward, IMO. But the other folks who read the thread are aware now of the difference of opinion and to take your view into account along with the other poster’s.
If you still want to post on the subject, I’d focus on what YOU like about the school, and try to phrase it is a way that isn’t directly challenging the other poster, maybe in the form of an update on your DS going back in the fall and why he’s excited to go.
Summer has flown in this household; D is heading back early due to sorority rush. She will not be home next summer; so I have to start to prepare myself that she is about ready to fly…S’16 moves in same week so I am not helping with her move in and this year she will have a car on campus…so dad will drive down with her and fly back alone 
D starts her paperwork for lincensing in the spring and continues to stick with her major, she absolutely loves her gerontology classes and is “okay” with the management classes.
Have any others D or S express that the look forward to returning but are not has anxious or excited as they were this time last year. She just asked me if that was normal and my response was it sounds like “your become an experience” college student
@Hoosier96, I think that type of reaction is totally normal. They all know what they are in for as far as the workload and stress. All of the excitement that goes with the newness and the unknown is gone to some extent and the learning curve for gradual taking on of adult pressures that is college is quite steep.
My daughter is as excited to head back but for different reasons compared to last year. She is anxious to be with her friends again and to start “actual” engineering courses. I just paid her bill, so the fact that it is right around the corner is very real.
It’s nice to catch up with the class of 15ers. D declared anthropology as her major (main major, major major?). She was going to declare sociology, but realized that the anthro half of the SOAN department had a lot of money to spend on research and study abroad due to a past donor plus she liked her advisor for anther more, so she made the choice. She also plans to major in Spanish, but has not yet declared that as an additional major.
D has been in Cleveland for the past month doing an internship at a juvenile detention facility as part of a poverty studies program. She is actually enjoying Cleveland and her apartment-mate, who are also in the same program, but working at the Cleveland Clinic. Everyone (the whole city) got the day off for the Cleveland Cavaliers parade. She thought that was cool. Now they are all bracing for the RNP convention. She finishes the internship at the end of July and will come home for 3 weeks. We are getting her a car to drive back to school with so she has a way of getting places next year. She is excited about her road trip with two of her college friends back to school (~2,000 miles). I am guessing she won’t be back home next summer either as she want to do an overseas program. If that doesn’t work out she will probably do some sort of research at school.
We have one more year with one in HS (S17), and then we will be empty nesters!! I am ready to travel 
@mdcmom - I’ve been a FB stalker of D ever since she went off to college. LUckily she had camera happy friends who post and tag. (love those kids)
D’s currently in South Korea. She writes a blog about her summer program and posts lots of food pictures. I’ve asked her to update her blog more often because I worry if it 's been three or four days or text me a picture a day. But she’s having fun, studying and overall learning a lot about herself. She’ll be back in two weeks, home for another four weeks before heading back to school.
Once she’s back at school, she’ll meet with the study abroad coordinator to plan out her junior year abroad. (Japan or Germany) Somewhere in all this, she’s a biology major with a German minor. She went in as a biology major and hasn’t changed much. She’s focusing on microbiology rather than other subareas.
Wow it has been a long time since I have been here, although I am on CC all the time. Hope all is well and I am happy to hear that this thread is still so active!!
D was home in May for 2 weeks before heading back to school for summer research. She will be back home at the end of July and will work at camp for 2-3 weeks before heading back to school again. She has a “super suite” with 4 other girls (5 total) and she has a single. She will still be with her roommate, who she loves.
She has a double major in biology and nutritional sciences and a double minor in chemistry and Spanish. Nutritional sciences requires her to apply to the School of Public Health at some point in the fall. She hopes to go into epidemiology and will likely end up in grad school at some point. I do get a bit nervous with her choice of majors/minors but I am sure it will work out.
@deborahb I am not sure which thread you are referring to, but I am glad to hear that you said something.
@deborahb , I would say, definitely correct. There are plenty of impressionable folks who read these reviews and may make decisions based on wrong details. So, you will be helping them. Go for it!
Here’s a question - any one else’s D/S come home with an ID that, um, may not reflect their actual birth date? LOL She lived in the honors/scholarship dorm and was initially wide-eyed and shocked at the amount of partying. I guess she adjusted.
^^ LOL, no, I haven’t seen that. DD’14 has talked about having to drive people home in their car because they were unfit to drive, and DD is very conservative with respect to drinking. Apparently they’re happy when they’re drunk though. “Don’t forget, you have to use the turn signal, okaaaaayyyy?” It’s been a real eye-opener, that’s for sure, but it seems like it’s made her even more careful. Mom is happy with that 
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My 2011er had one of those…
D won’t be home from her summer internship for two more weeks, and we are already talking about getting her plane tix to come back for thanksgiving and winter break! Oy.
@mtrosemom makes me think that college graduation is going to get here in a flash. Three more school years is really a short time.
@NorthernMom61 bite your tongue!! 
I’m not ready to face that!
D’s internship is over in three weeks and then she’s going back to school as soon as dorms open. There’s no fall break so the next time we’ll see her is Thanksgiving or winter break. It is going fast.
Once we drop our daughter off at school in five weeks, we hop on a plane to Asia the next day and won’t see her again until winter break. We are savoring this likely last full summer together and are really looking forward to her boyfriend’s visit in a couple weeks. She has lots planned for his stay.
^^We’re going the opposite way…dropping DD off at the airport and sending her to China while we stay home! Exciting for her, sad for us…
I’m visiting d right now, having coffee in her college town while she works. We arrived here Sunday and I’ve gained an appreciation for this area, so many great restaurants and pretty places to go. She’s had a car this summer so had explored a lot and has between showing me around. This is a really nice time