Wow there was no way my D could have ever finished homework in HS if we turned off the internet at night. Most of her work (except math) was submitted electronically one way or another, and deadlines were typically either 11:59 pm or sometime in the morning. Once she had a paper due on a Sunday afternoon. She also developed what turned out to be a good study habit of Skyping math problems late at night with another night owl friend. They helped each other learn the material.
D always managed her time well, but was up until all hours of the night on a regular basis. AP Bio, for one, was a huge time suck.
D17 received her ACT scores this morning and received the score she needed to be a viable candidate at her schools, even though many are test optional. Huge relief!
QOTD: D17 wakes up at 6:30 am, leaves the house at 7:10 am and has school and then sports until 5 pm, and is home usually by 5:45 pm. Seems to have about 4 - 5 hours a night of homework, and is usually asleep at 11 pm. Doesn’t leave much time for anything fun… or working on college applications!
QOTD2: Well, D23 only exists by special request of D17 so they’d better get along! D17 declared she was tired of being an only and asked for a sister. I tried to explain that I couldn’t guarantee a sister, lol, and had a whole PR campaign prepared in case her sibling turned out to be a boy (Dad’s a boy, and he’s not so bad, right? Your uncles are pretty cool!) but in the end, D17 got what she wanted. Heh. In a lot of ways, I think the 6 years separating my girls has helped their relationship, because they’re always at different enough places in their lives that there really isn’t any competition between them. Mostly, their relationship is very sweet and supportive, and I feel extremely blessed with both of them.
Oh, DE - my D17 is taking a Syracuse University DE course for English, but it’s taught at her HS. They have a program called Syracuse University Project Advance which is offered at a lot of NY high schools. Not sure if it’s popular other places. D17 took the DE English class over a second round of AP English (she took AP Lang last year, this year would be AP Lit) because the Syracuse course focused more on writing, which has been something her other HS courses have not been as intensive in as hoped.
Yes to DE–S is taking Diff Eq at a local university. I pick him up at his HS 4x a week, drop him off at class, then pick him up and return him to HS. He gets out of one math class early so he can go to another one. It’s crazy when I think about what he’s doing (and what I am doing with all of this driving). But he loves math, and we only have one car. And it’s only one year of our life. Another class next semester. He misses an art class 3x/week and goes into school early every day to make up the work.
When D got up this morning at 4, she logged in to one of her school online platforns and saw several of her classmates online as well. Yikes! I doubt she gets more than 6 hours of sleep during the week. Between homework, work 3 weekdays (both days on the weekend), and extracurriculars, there just isn’t time for more though she’d probably squeeze in more sleep with less social media time, reading for pleasure, and her poor sleep habits in general.
No TV in D’s bedroom. She rarely watches TV and no TV has ever been allowed during the week as a general rule (with exceptions).
Re: DE - D has 3 this year, but only 1 is actually DE. Two are concurrent enrollment, i.e., she won’t get high school credit for the 2 math courses as Calc BC is as high as our school goes. The two that are this semester are online. She will definitely try to avoid an online class for linear algebra next semester.
Siblings - D is an only child. She isn’t a spoiled brat, but it’s obvious that she’s an only child and she likes it that way.
@itsgettingreal17 - I wish I can enforce no TV during the week DS needs to watch one episode of a medical show (House or Chicago MD) ,if not NCIS to unwind. That’s his claim
DS is also only child so no sibling issues. Growing up I didn’t have much issues with my siblings.
Seriously, the kids are out the door at 7:30 and get home at 3:45. D17 spends 2-4 hours per day on dance six days a week and does homework the rest of the time, including nearly the entire day on Sunday. Typically she gets about 7.5 hours on most school days, 9 on the weekends. During the week leading up to shows, it’s catch as catch can. D21 is very protective of her sleep and gets to bed early most nights.
Almost no TV watching happens here, but there is some time spent on social media and surfing the web. If D17 needs to focus, she hands me her phone. She’s pretty disciplined because she has to be.
Sibling rivalry: Two daughters, four years apart. On the whole, they get along great. They are both very bright, but have different areas of strength, different learning styles, and handle stress differently. Knock on wood, but I can’t remember them ever having a major fight that involved shouting or cussing. Minor spats, sure.
@Mom2aphysicsgeek Colleges have very good matching algorithms to track prospects. I helped develop the one the school I work for uses. Match and merge the data.
I think my D has been Admitted to Pitt. The program status says ‘Admitted’ but she hasn’t been notified yet. I think other people got that.
@Dolemite — sounds like you have some inside perspective we all need to know! (Kidding—I am convinced this is all a crap shoot once an applicant satisfies certain criteria/clears benchmarks.)
BIG CONGRATS to all the ACT-takers who are happy with their new scores. Time to order score reports and move this process along.
So jealous of all the ACT scores received today. Ds’ score was not posted so the wait begins…ugh. I am not a patient person! It was hard enough to wait the past 10 days. LOL! If he gets the point he want, I’ll be thrilled but I find myself getting more nervous now not knowing the score yet. Congrats to all those who got the scores they needed!
Ds goes to bed about 11:00 each night and is up at 5:45 each morning. He takes a before school class so he starts at 7:00, goes right to sports after school. Usually home around 5:00. Few nights a week back for an EC activity. He definitely uses the weekends to catch up on sleep!
Dual Enrollment - D will be taking vector calculus, organic chemistry, and astronomy at the community college. Classes start next week. This week has been quite a shock with text book prices!
Siblings Mine don’t really get along too well but they don’t fight either, they just sort of act like two only children. They 4 1/2 years apart, 5 years apart in school, different sexes and have very different interests & strengths.
@monmertons Textbook prices have not only gotten ridiculously high, but why am I paying $150 for a loose leaf packet that is serving as the textbook and $200 for an online only textbook?!
My son told me last night I was pushing what I thought was his first choice on him. The application is in. We hired a counselor to help with his essay. He now declares I’m the one who wants it - not him. That he doesn’t even want to go and talk to the counselor from there who is at the school on Friday. Please tell me this is going on in other houses.
Maybe I would have a better idea of what he wanted or is looking for if HE WOULD ENGAGE IN THE PROCESS.
sleep Sleep is important here. With dd health issues, she tries to live the healthiest life style possible. She watches what she eats, gets daily exercise, and gets at least 6 hrs of sleep (7 is more the norm.)
My niece is currently a college Jr majoring in art. Her normally sleep schedule is between 2 or 3 to 6. I don’t know,how she functions.
siblings We have a lot of family dynamics going on. With the exception of the “little kid” 6 yr old squabbles about she doesn’t want to play with me, for the most part my kids are all very close. Different siblings have different relationships with each other. I guess you could say there are sibling pairs where 2 are much closer with each other than with the others, but all of them are close. All of my kids have struggled with leaving little siblings when they go to college and the ones at home have all missed their older siblings.
qotd Anyone else’s’ child hitting essay fatigue? Dd has 4 applications submitted and 4 more to go. She spent time yesterday going over every website/ program to make sure she really wants to apply. She knocked one off the list. I am pretty sure she will apply to these last few, but she is definitely getting tired of the process. KY’s honors college prompts are the current ones gelling. She isn’t quite sure what direction she wants to go.
Last year with 5 APs, D went to bed before 10 pm every night, even with swimming. This year with 6 APs, especially 3 sciences, D has been going to bed at 10:30, so she gets 8 hours of sleep. She needs her beauty sleep.
She lamented on her low B on the last physics C test, but It turned out that she has the highest grade in the class for that test
DS20 listens to D better than us the parents. They have one class together this year, AP computer science.
DD is a short sleeper. She comes by it naturally. My MIL was the same way. So she can go off of 3-4 hrs a night. Occasionally she will sleep for much longer but not on a regular basis. I love to sleep, so I just don’t get it.
QOTD: There is definitely essay fatigue here and D is also running short on time to get them done. D has submitted 14 apps and has 1 more to go. Then she also had scholarship apps for a handful of the school to which she already applied, and all are the ones with very involved apps, usually requiring at least 2 essays with little to no overlap. She will submit the last app this weekend and get started on one scholarship app. Then she needs to really start cranking them out. She may have to prioritize according to due dates, even though she wants to be completely done by the end of the month.
@traport As your S sees others working on their apps and talking about college, hopefully he will get more involved in the process. I put the list together based on her criteria. She is easy though and knows exactly what she wants (not too picky). All fit her criteria and she’d happily attend any on the list. We are completely in sync re ranking the schools. So smooth sailing here. And D is very exited for college. Hope things improve!
My dd has been completing the applications and the scholarship applications before we consider her having applied bc wo the scholarships, there is no point. Some of the essays she has not minded at all. There are a couple, though, where the topic has been pretty difficult for her to tackle in a really compelling way.
D17 declared she was tired of being an only and asked for a sister. I tried to explain that I couldn’t guarantee a sister, lol, and had a whole PR campaign prepared in case her sibling turned out to be a boy (Dad’s a boy, and he’s not so bad, right? Your uncles are pretty cool!) but in the end, D17 got what she wanted. Heh. In a lot of ways, I think the 6 years separating my girls has helped their relationship, because they’re always at different enough places in their lives that there really isn’t any competition between them. Mostly, their relationship is very sweet and supportive, and I feel extremely blessed with both of them.
DS needs to watch one episode of a medical show (House or Chicago MD) ,if not NCIS to unwind. That’s his claim