@lexieam I will have 8 years in a row of college with 4 of those years being 2 at the same time. Kind of like I was pregnant and or nursing for exactly 6 years. I’ll let you know in 7 years which of those was harder.
@MuggleMom: It is unfortunate that you must endure such interaction. Did you think about printing out a page from the ‘Just Smile and Nod’ thread and handing it to people in lieu of a response? That might spare you a moment to breathe.
@readingclaygirl: I had my husband looking into your college because he stayed at an inn near your college, which got me thinking about you, and then talking about you. He wanted to know why we hadn’t heard of it before, but did his reading as he felt compelled to do. You are causing ripples in ponds.
Aww you make me feel special @Waiting2exhale
@carolinamom2boys : Congratulations on the big day. I had you with me all morning. My daughter asked, “Why are you smiling?” Then she got a little saucy and pointedly inquired, “Does it have something to do with College Confidential?”
I nodded and just kept smiling.
@carolinamom2boys Congratulations on the graduation!
@MuggleMom Sorry for all the uniformed people. I’m sure it is frustrating. I did have a co-worker recently ask me Why re my S’s choice - as in why would I send him to a school out of state. He clearly had not heard of S’s school but I think the question was more about sending a kid that far. He has not had a kid go through the process yet. I don’t get too many questions about S’s choice - probably because most who know me know that D went to the same school. I probably answered all of those questions 6 years ago. It is awesome that your D picked the school that is the best fit for her and that she is happy and excited about it. That says it all.
Congrats to all the graduates.
Thanks everyone .
Love the term “college admission mania virus” @Midwest67 ! Maybe the visible symptom is swelled heads?
(My apologies for the poor joke to anyone impacted by Zika.)
Still here from time to time, though I tend to binge-read and thus have little to add because the thread has veered into another direction by the time I read it. ::waving at @carolinamom2boys ::
We just got back from orientation, so S has his schedule and his ID and all that happy stuff squared away. He already knows his roommate, and has a good idea what dorm he’ll be in since there’s only one honors dorm. And he approves of the food (though he’s been warned that Orientation food is much better than regular school year food.)
The good news is we discovered that the price tag for all this will be about $4000/year less than anticipated. Best news I’ve had in ages, honestly!
Great news @petrichor11 !
That’s wonderful news! @petrichor11 Missed seeing your avatar. Have your 2 graduated yet?
Next week. We’re deep in planning for a grew-out-of-control graduation party.
More money in your pocket is always good @petrichor11 . We’ve missed you. Don’t stay away too long.
@petrichor11 2 kids, 2 times the craziness, 2 times the joy. (a quote from a print on my mom’s wall)
One of my best friends early on in our college search made the comment “Oh, you definitely don’t want him to go to [school x]” after I told her we’d gone for a visit in the early fall. Sure enough, that was the school he loved and has chosen, and since then I’ve met at least 10 people whose kids have gone to his future school and can’t say enough about how wonderful it is. I could tell she regretted her earlier comment when I told her in mid-April that he’d decided it was where he wanted to go. I never asked her why she made her initial comment, but neither of her kids ended up staying at the schools they started at (which were the ones she suggested we look into). Although the school our S picked might not be as prestigious as one of the others that accepted him, he just knew it was the right fit for him and after learning more about it, we agree.
It’s unfortunate @MuggleMom that people feel the need to make negative or questioning comments about any students’ college choice when there are so many factors that go into what is one of the most important decisions they make at this stage of their lives. Even kids who seem laid back do think deeply about this change, and they want to pick the place where they will feel comfortable and where they think they have a chance at being successful in a totally new environment.
@lifegarding I’ve had to listen to so many people tell my son and I that his school is “such a party school” . I used to try and refute their claims, but then I just started saying " thanks for the info. I’ll add a flask, extra sheets for togas and an extra lampshade on his shopping list."
Just curious, are most of your kids attending orientation prior to move in day?
Hello @petrichor11 ! Congrats on the $$!
We just returned from D’s senior project presentation. It went very well. The depth of her research astonished me, since she’d never gone into depth about all that she’d done-I’d mostly seen her “extended” work of the internship and her hands-on portion. The panel was impressed. We were a little sad to learn after it was all over that one of the other kids in that group is going through a very tough time with having to live with siblings after his parents lost their lease and learning that his parents don’t accept his coming out. His presentation wasn’t as strong as it might have been-with good reason. I hope he gets a passing grade.
@carolinamom2boys D’s school offers a mini-orientation in April, which we attended, another in July, which we will skip, then a full-week, in depth orientation the week before school starts. That will include 2 days of parent activities, so we’ll stay for those after move-in day and then head home. The rest of the week includes a lot of bonding activities and even a day of community service. Some of the activities seem so fun I would love to be a student again just to do them.
Congrats on your daughter’s completion of her project. I’m sure that it was quite impressive . That is so unfortunate about her classmate. I hope it all works out for him @ sseamom
@petrichor11 : There was talk around my house of using sounds from one language base to glean what the sound of a word in another language is, and it started with words in Japanese and Chinese, flowed into words in Latin, Spanish and English, and somehow three of my kids (S’14, D’17, and S’20) were trying to outdo the other with the blending of words.
In the middle of it all, D’17 said, “Like petri-chor! The smell after the rain: petri, meaning stone, and chor meaning rain, or the liquid in the veins of the gods.”
I had not known this, but each of my kids had (of course), and it blew me away. Petrichor!
My kids find me amusing, I find them amazing.