Parents of the HS Class of 2026 (Part 2)

I’m with you – I feel like we’re missing something with all the steps, but I know D26 has filled out the housing application, accepted the honors program stuff, sent official SAT score, etc. I don’t think official school email has happened yet? Unsure. She needs to send in a picture for her ID, but they’re requesting a passport-type photo, so we need to take one.

She has something similar this summer for registration in which some kids spend the night at the dorm, but since we’re local, she only needs to go for one full day. It was like buying concert tickets to register for a date for that, so she got her second choice of July 9, but that’s still fine.

Oh, and it has the most ridiculous acronym I’ve ever heard – it’s called FASET, which stands for Familiarization and Adaptation to the Surroundings and Environs of Tech. :rofl: Is that not the most Georgia Tech thing ever? I was telling my D22 about this, and she said, “They could have put Campus instead of Surroundings in there so it would have spelled FACET and been an actual word, at least.” LOL.

They do have another week-long orientation before classes start, but she’ll be at band camp during that same week, so unclear how many of the activities she’ll be able to do. Either way, she’ll get a chance to get familiar with the campus a little early.

Only five more days of school here! And this is senior week, so every day is something fun (although actual schoolwork is still happening). Monday is wearing a white uniform polo tie-dyed. Also her STEM teacher is taking the class (seven students) out to lunch because they finally turned in the final project yesterday. Tuesday morning is the spring band concert – which they perform three times, for lower, middle and high schools – and D26 gets to open the concert with a small clarinet solo, which is cool. Wednesday is college t-shirt and painted skort day. Thursday is honors day, and Friday the kids ride scooters into school and around the quad, lol, and then have final senior chapel in which they scream the Bible verse they’ve been reciting weekly since kindergarten, then run out the doors to the quad where they tearily hug parents and pick up their yard signs and then go have a special lunch. And DONE.

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