When I was in high school we didn’t have senior skip day (boarding school in the middle of farm country, nowhere to skip to I guess!) but we did have Headmaster’s Holiday. This was a random day in the spring where during breakfast the Headmaster would stand on a dining room table and announce that today was the day and everybody would be so excited.
Of course, like I said we didn’t have much to do until we were seniors and a few kids had cars. A group of us got together and came up with a plan. We were going to get one of our friends with a car to drive us to Providence, RI to stay in a hotel and go see this band called Max Creek who played every week at a club named Lupos and have a fun, crazy time. (It must have been a Friday so we didn’t have to rush back to school.) To leave campus you had to get parents to call in with permission. Most of my friends would just have a sister call and lie or else their parents didn’t really care. Well I knew mine would never say yes so I came up with this long story about how we were going to see the band but we were staying at a friend’s grandmother’s house who lives near there blah, blah, blah. Somehow my mother agreed although she now tells me she knew the story sounded super fishy. We went to the concert and did have a fun, crazy time but boy am I glad my D does not take after me! I mean she likes to have fun but I think of the dumb stuff we did and am thankful she has a better head on her shoulders so far than I did in high school.
@Trixy34 St. Lawrence does have good food, but good food at the hotel?! You must not have stayed at the U Inn - LOL!
@4kids4us Thanks for telling me about the Tulane girls, I love hearing stories like that. I will say the enthusiasm of alumni was one thing that helped sway DH. He did not want her looking there at first because he was so worried about the safety of New Orleans. Little by little we kept running into alums (our insurance adjuster, an old parent friend from our son’s lacrosse team…) and every single one just raved about it. We both feel that way when we talk about St. Lawrence so he felt better knowing how much pride Tulane alums have.
@bettzke1 Congratulations on Richmond! I don’t like actual spiders but for some reasons the UR spider grew on me throughout the application process and now I love it. 
UR was the one school that I asked D to apply to even though it was not on her radar. It had everything she wanted except it was smaller than she wanted. I hoped she might change her mind by the time decisions came around but n the end she just couldn’t see herself going to a college smaller than her high school. Oh well - I still have two kids to go, I can try to talk them into it too!
@SDCounty3Mom - I am not creative but I always love when people blow up pictures of their kids from throughout childhood and put them around the party.
Congrats on UTD @momcatof4!!
@pn24601 I know what you mean, I thought the same thing about swag day. It was not heavily advertised at D’s school - in fact she was sure it was Tuesday then one of her teachers did a group text reminding them to wear their shirts on Monday. I volunteered on Monday and it seemed like about 1/2 of the kids wore shirts and half didn’t. I know a bunch who were not wearing shirts who are going to college so I think it just wasn’t such a huge deal there. They didn’t do a picture or anything.
@cleoforshort Haha - I bet he got lots of questions on which ACC school he had picked! I hope you keep us updated on his next year, I would love to hear what he does!
@ninakatarina Congrats on Gettysburg, I hope you all fall in love with it! I remember my junior year college trip, on that leg we visited both Gettysburg and Dickinson. I told my parents I liked Gettysburg better because I thought the brick buildings were prettier than the limestone - clearly I had my priorities in order. 