<p>Hi</p>
<p>I’m so happy my son got in to Carleton that I’m practically exhausted with excitement and relief! Lift a glass for us—we are on the moon!!</p>
<p>Bethie…sent you my congrats via email but want to toast you in Sinner’s. Here’s to your guy!</p>
<p>OK. Now we really need Berurah. Help B, help! How do we do the thing with colors and fonts? Bethie, what are the Carleton colors? We will scrabble though the crepe paper we keep in the back store room and make a garland…</p>
<p>Curious14, nobody said it better than our beloved founder and part-time bartender, doddsdad. Just go back to the very first post where he welcomes all Sinnners to the Alley. It sounds like you are feeling pretty much the same as he was when he decided that he needed a place where everybody knew his name. :::theme from Cheers wafts in from above::::</p>
<p>Welcome! Kick off your shoes. No shirt – No Shoes – We Don’t Give a Damn! :)</p>
<p>Maize and Blue I think.</p>
<p>Congrats Bethie! Do you feel 20 pounds lighter?</p>
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RIGHT ON! </p>
<p>Oh wait. Do I have to go find a shirt now?</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>Bethie—congrats. Are you all done now with this whole waiting on the mail to come thing? We’ve only got one more big merit $$ to hear from and then we’re (mostly) done. Doing visit to Williams in April, but it’s highly unlikely D will go there. But—please don’t tell those mean people in the thread from hell. I’ll take one of those pineapple-banana tall drinks with a purple umbrella, please.</p>
<p>For Bethie’s boy…</p>
<p>CARLTON!!!</p>
<p>I did it!</p>
<p>Yes, I feel at least 20 pounds lighter. Ha, ha I’m still eating chocolate!</p>
<p>astrophysicsmom</p>
<p>No he has 5 more schools to hear from, but honestly, I can’t imagine anthing finer than Carleton for him. Thanks Soozie!!</p>
<p>Bethievt, wow!!! I love Carleton! He’s going to love it – we visited when our kids were little, and just got the best vibe. The kids seem really friendly (typical for MN), bright and creative. Congratulations!</p>
<p>congrats, bethie! I loved everything i read about Carleton, and thought my S should look at it. congrats to yours!</p>
<p>Just back from a really FUNNNNNN trip to NYC!!! I saw 3 shows, plus SNL, and ate ‘mass quantities’ of delicious food, none of which was cooked by me. I had a staggering number of blasts from the past, since I had not set foot in Manhattan since moving away from NYC in 1987, with a shattered heart.</p>
<p>Can you believe it took me this long to realize there was some sort of mental block keeping me away? A whole seal-up-that-room-and-never-enter-it-again thing? I have dozens of friends who live there, six of them very very dear friends, it’s one of the world’s great cities-- yet it took me 20 years to pop back in?!! </p>
<p>And I wasn’t even consciously aware of NOT visiting. I had made no formal decision NOT to go… it was just an autopilot thing. Weird. Made even weirder by the fact that my old heart-shattering boyfriend and I have been pretty cordial for years, and he doesn’t even live in NYC, he lives in London (where I’ve gone three times!)!! Go figure.</p>
<p>Well, now the drought is over, the spell is broken. I walked down my old block and had a cleansing flood of tears in front of my old building. I reveled in the smells of push-cart foods, I dodged and weaved through streams of hustling pedestrians. It was all so familiar and so fun. </p>
<p>Sybbie, I was thinking of you!</p>
<p>SBmom–that sounds like a great visit! Sounds like a good soul-cleansing, and an all-around good time!</p>
<p>This is a fun thread…check it out. It made me smile.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=313596&page=6[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=313596&page=6</a></p>
<p>Coming to you this morning from a politically correct cafe on Shattuck in Berkeley. I’m having a latte with sluggyD, and then, we’re both going over to the hair place for a 3-hour hair marathon. UP the stairs, past the yoga pit, past the clinical psychologist’s office with the hand-painted screens in the front window to hide all of the crazy, wailing people…and down the hall to hair Heaven. </p>
<p>Later, cyberbuddies! I feel so intellectual typing on my laptop in an cyber cafe…That guy over over there glued to his laptop looking all serious with his pinkie finger halfway up his nose is probably a Nobel Prize winner. :)</p>
<p>Because my hair is so white and my beard (goatee, really) is also white and since I have not had a chance to cut my hair in *several months<a href=“!”>/i</a>, people are telling me that I look like Santa.</p>
<p>Of course i was highly incensed, feeling very insulted. But then I found out that looking a little like Santa is not such a bad thing:</p>
<p>…I’m getting smiles from cute women.</p>
<p>…Store clerks are friendlier to me.</p>
<p>…More people actually listen to my advice.</p>
<p>…I get strangers who are sure they know me, but just can’t remember from where (but conversations start).</p>
<p>…and of course I’ve become a reindeer magnet. :)</p>
<p>Now I’m afraid to cut my hair. I’ll just go back to being a nobody. :(</p>
<p>CONGRATS ON CARLETON BETHIE’S SON!!!</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>SBmom,</p>
<p>Welcome back to NYC! </p>
<p>I’ve always liked NY but it wasn’t until my son decided to go to Kings Point did I really begin to love NY.</p>
<p>All of his Plebe (freshman) year he was required to wear his uniform anywhere within a 25 mile radius of the Academy. Given that Manhattan is a 20 min ride on the LIRR from the Great Neck station, he and his buddies would often head into town. Never once when he was in uniform did he or his buddies ever have to pay for a meal. Somebody, most often anonymously, would pick up the check before it ever got to them. </p>
<p>The kindnesses shown to the Midshipmen were truly heartwarming. The stories are too numerous to recount here, but I raise my glass and toast NY City and the people who live there!!</p>