<p>Great news. I was just about to PM you to ask how basketball was going. I AM a basketball fan. I am also in <honduras on a mission trip using a Spanish keyboard, so if this looks like i am drunk, that is why<</p>
<p>Enjoy It.</p>
<p>I mean really enjoy it Curm! Your behind better be at all those b-ball games as well, this coming from the football/swim mom who misses them now that they play at college at the other end of the country.</p>
<p>Enjoy every frustrating, harrowing, time-crunching, wild-haired moment. For senior year is here and will not be coming back. Remember I am on #4 and it doesn’t get any easier.</p>
<p>Congrats to your daughter and good luck for the upcoming games.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>PS DS was contacted and considered Northwestern’s combined bs/md program along with Rice/Baylor, Brown’s and Vanderbilt’s. PM if you want his thinking on all of it. See if it sheds any light on dd’s possible current opportunities.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>In your heart, you know what’s going to happen, don’t you? She’s going to get 'em all! And then the real anguish will begin. Hang in there big guy.
By the way, this won’t end when she matriculates. Then you’ve got your travel abroad opportunities, research opportunities, internships, undergrad competitive scholarships, all of which will compete for time and conflict with each other. And after that, the WNBA finals will conflict with the Nobel awards dinner, and then what are you gonna do? ;)<br>
Congratulations! By the way, I’m pretty certain Mr. Tech and Ms. Weekend will be accommodating–they know kids like your power forward have a lot of opportunities. And if one or the other is stubborn, well, that may tell you something about that option.
Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks everybody. I do feel better. And I think I feel a little play on one end. If I can just get a little “ooch” out of the other, I think I’ll be able to see some daylight.</p>
<p>Oh, BTW. All my “let the kid do all the admissions contact” rules we had in place went officially to Hell in a handbasket early this morning. LOL. Although she did e-mail the med school.</p>
<p>wow, those are great possibilities! I’ll keep my fingers crossed that one of them will show some flexability on the scheduling. I’m sure that many kids have conflicts of one sort or another.</p>
<p>Cur,
what a WONDERFUL problem to have. Congratulations to your daughter on all she’s accomplished so far, and best wishes for happy results at the end of the college road. :)</p>
<p>Curmudgeon ~ Hard to believe but next year you’ll be missing the excitement of this time in your D’s life. Congrats to her and to you!</p>
<p>Cur, sympathy & congrats all at once. I have also noticed the tendency for ALL THE IMPORTANT STUFF to happen on the EXACT SAME WEEKEND. (Our current situation with Bush Intercontinental/Hendrix problem notwithstanding.) D will be home approximately 10 hours between Mon & Tues next week before flying across the country to spend 3 days trying for another scholarship. Then the next one is the Friday after Spring Break in Dallas. A previous interview at a totally different school (BS/MD combo program) was the same weekend as Regional Decathlon and had to be rescheduled, too. Independent wealth looks even better now, but the chances of that are poor (possible bad pun there.) Teachers/Administrators are worried about her health & stress level. </p>
<p>However, she’s really only stressed about missing so much AP Gov (very good teacher, tons of work, but most make 5 on that test.) She too has the Texas Val possibility although she really wants a small school, not a big Texas public.</p>
<p>The other side of the coin is the disappointments. She received NO merit $$$ with her Rice ID admit. So many of those applicants are MAJOR overachievers (probably a few disease cures in there.) And, since we haven’t heard anything like other posters, it appears she was passed up for the WUSTL Honorary and/or Moog. </p>
<p>People ask all the time “What will you do next year when all this is over?” I’ll probably miss the chase, I will definitely miss <em>HER</em>. But mostly I tell them I’ll be busy with the 3 extra jobs needed to pay it all!</p>
<p>My crystal ball is fuzzy right now, but I think they’ll all wind up where they need to be. Such incredible kids/parents on this site. Hopefully there is a special place for all of them after all the hard work.</p>
<p>Oh, and that whole let them do all the admissions contact? When they’re at school from 8-8 and then have other commitments, some days it’s nearly impossible when it requires phone calls. By time she was available to call, she’d only get answering machines.</p>
<p>I was the one on the phone/internet for 3 hours yesterday during the airport fiasco. She was at school totally clueless until the entire thing was re-scheduled. THAT stress she absolutely didn’t need.</p>
<p>Things <em>should</em> calm down after the weekend. State Decathlon will be over Sunday @ 11.</p>
<p>As far as the phone call thing? Not even worth debating here anymore–I’ve learned from CC it’s a morals/character test, which my family obviously failed abysmally-LOL. I’ve learned to accept our failings and soldier on. :)</p>
<p>Garland - I failed both the phone call test of character and the “don’t help them with apps” test. But somehow, S is managing to deal with college on his own this year in spite of my assistance during the app process. I suppose there’s still time for him to become a helpless drain on society, but it doesn’t look that way so far.</p>
<p>cur:</p>
<p>time to become a conscientious objector to dissection. Don’t need no stinkin’ biology when she should be practicing her jump shot. Let’s get her priorities in order, huh? :D</p>
<p>Perhaps TT has a spot on the D-1 roster? You could make it a win-win deal: a girl who pulls down a consistent double-double for thier team in trace for a guaranteed grad school admission…</p>
<p>Curmudge,</p>
<p>What a wonderful, wild ride!! I am so excited for you and your D, yet can feel the roller-coaster effect of it just through cyberspace. Deep breaths in and out.</p>
<p>Congrats and Way to go! I fell your pain… but, soon, soon, soon it’ll all be history. I hope there is some flexibility from TT or other favorite!</p>
<p>Mudge - Bless her sweet heart! You’re always a stitch! ;)</p>
<p>Well, what wonderful problems to have. I do understand the frustration, though. It doesn’t seem fair that it all arrives at once.</p>
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<p>My son is doing just that right now, and it’s making me nuts. At least “mudgette” is enjoying the fame (and apparently, fortune).</p>
<p>Be careful what you wish for…</p>
<p>We’ve discussed this in a PM so you know how I feel, but I just know everything will work out for your d, curmudgeon. She has the world by the tail and any school would be lucky to have her. Let’s hope for their sake, they budge a little in order to make that happen. I just know her presentation at Hendrix was fabulous and a big “raise the roof” for her games this weekend. It sounds like she’s burning the candle at both ends, so I hope she is able to get a little bit of rest. Please give her a hug for me and tell her to keep on keeping on!!!</p>
<p>Hi Curmudgeon. I’m laughing in the corner over here because I SO knew mudgarella would be a “top draft pick” to her colleges. I’m delighted at the opportunities she has and hope y’all don’t find it too overwhelming. Just imagine - in a little over two months a decision will be made and this will be over. What will we do to keep ourselves busy then?</p>
<p>And here I thought this was going to be a post about your new puppy ;-)</p>
<p>Good luck to your daughter all the way around!</p>