<p>Uva = Avu?</p>
<p>I guess we’ve been lucky, for I haven’t felt “empty” yet. Leaving D at college drop off was one of the top ten misty-eyed in my adult life but that passed. It’s as if she’s on her own journey but we’re still in hailing distance. </p>
<p>And seeing her come down the escalator at LAX when she came home that first Thanksgiving, suddenly looking like a college student instead of a high school girl…that was a bit like being hit in the face with a board…but in a good way.</p>
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<p>Both renowned institutions of higher learning.</p>
<p>But no, you’ll notice that looking at a rear window sticker in the rear-view mirror flips each letter individually, so we look for vertically reflection symmetric letters :D</p>
<p>I think that’s how it works anyways.</p>
<p>So far we have only:
“MIT = TIM”
“TTT = TTT”</p>
<p>I don’t suppose Utah has “UU” decals.
Can dyslectics read the stickers for Connecticut College or Colorado College?</p>
<p>Can I tell you why I have a Millikin University bumper sticker in my back window? First, because it’s a small college in Illinois that no one in Michigan has every heard of. I figure it deserves a bit of free publicity in exchange for getting my daughter out of my hair for the next four years.</p>
<p>Secondly, for the first time in 19 years, I don’t have a van. I have a little car. I forget what kind. And it’s this weird, non-descript color. And I keep forgetting what it looks like. So I look around for a small, weird colored car with a bumper sticker in the back window.</p>
<p>“I forget what kind…” that’s great!</p>
<p>lol peggy :)</p>
<p>I can only imagine what parent2009 would think of a college kid who wanted to get his girlfriend a sweatshirt with the name of his high school on it…S is proud of his high school and proud of his college. That’s the way it should be! I see nothing wrong with that at all.</p>
<p>I just came back to this thread. I guess parent2009’s posts were deleted. I missed them all!</p>
<p>wait a minute, ALL stickers on the back window read correctly in your rear view mirror. Turn around (from a seat) and look at it…it’s backwards. The rear view mirror reverses it again…2 negatives= a positive.</p>
<p>Anyway I keep Carnegie Mellon sticker on the car even though he just graduated. It doesn’t have “University” on the sticker, just CM…I figure most people have no idea what it is, so maybe I can confuse 'em for a few seconds when I pass them :).</p>
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Yes. I didn’t want to be mean and point it out, but some of our posters seem to have put their exterior-designed stickers on the inside of their rear windows. Decals and cling-ons go on the inside, stickers go on the outside. 
Although there really has to be another explanation, I hope.</p>
<p>We have DS’s college on the back window. They make those nice “peel off” decals…no paste…more like colorforms. They just stick to the window…but can be easily moved to another car (in fact, when DD totalled one car, the only thing we removed from it was the college name…to be put on the replacement vehicle). We can hardly wait for DD to make her college choice, and we will put it right under (or over…depending on our mood) the current one. NO bumper stickers…ever…But I did see one I LOVED. It said “My Golden Retriever is on the Honor Roll”. Made me laugh all the way to work.</p>
<p>My Golden Retriever is on the Honor Roll"</p>
<p>Ive met Goldens, nice dogs- but not quite honor roll material:)</p>
<p>I KNOW that all stickers read correctly in the rear view mirror… honest…I was just commenting that I like it…I also love the Mirror of ERISED from Harry Potter which is of a similiar vein…the whole premise of seeing what we want to see…the little college sticker makes me see my son in my mind’s eye!</p>
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I agree, and I too get a little charge out of it every time I look in the rear-view.</p>
<p>well. oops.</p>
<p>We spent the day at Penn today and did the deed - bought not one but two decals, although they are the small, unobtrusive cling on type. I kept thinking of this thread!</p>
<p>We have not yet affixed D’s college sticker to our rear windows, but in the front dash area of my minivan, I still have the “Shoreland–Move-In-Day” placard, which slides around as I drive. And I get teary-eyed as I watch it softly swoosh.</p>
<p>I got a laugh today while in the car…wondering if I will look at that sticker 43,000 times this year? I hope I got 41,000 looks last year!! How many will I get next year? and the year after that? Hopefully, I won’t have to look at it $50,000 times in any one year… LOL…</p>
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Oh, choc~</p>
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<p>Your description reminds me of something hilarious…I am an organizational DISASTER, and consequently, I typically have TONS of stuff floating around on my dashboard…everything from play scripts to conference notes to spelling folders to t-shirt order forms. My kids are SO accustomed to this that whenever we take a turn, they “assume the position,” hands out, ready to catch whatever comes sliding off the dash…it has become so automatic that they don’t miss a beat in a conversation! About two days ago, we took a turn, and I glanced over at my 15-year-old daughter and saw that she was just sitting there, both hands out in anticipation. When I gave her a curious look, she just said, “Well <em>I</em> was ready…the stuff just didn’t happen to fall of THIS time!!” <em>lol</em></p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>I got a new car last spring, and held off on stickers. By fall I’d put younger s’s HS decal (the one sold by the booster club for the football team to show you paid 5 bucks to support them) in the corner of the window. Yesterday I was given some sort of fancy gold sticker for my car from AAA showing that I am an old geezer-- that I’ve been a member for 30 years!! I have no idea what good it will do me by putting it on my car, other than providing free advertising for AAA, but I broke down and put it on the bumper. So… time to go ahead and put older s’s college decal in my car. My previous car had one. That car became his at school when his car died. So, his car now says “Rice Mom” in the back window! I imagine he gets a few strange looks when he’s driving it.</p>