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<p>it’s not primitive. DD does this all the time. So she can print them anywhere.</p>
<p>yep…and I can also print them out if need be…we all have each others passwords just in case</p>
<p>for instance for etickets, etc…having access if needed is important…I have never look at at their email, but they use mine</p>
<p>D’s first college finals are upon her. She finished her 10 page paper, which with the 50 minute presentation she gave last week is her final for that class. Today, she met with her prof for tomorrow’s final (to get last-minute help on the stuff she’d studied but still wasn’t clear on), and she is now wrapping up her studying for that final in order to get a good night’s sleep. Her psych final is Tuesday, so she has lots of time to study … it’s the prof who “never” gives A’s, and she is going to do everything in her power to try to prove the rumor wrong.</p>
<p>You’d think that schedule wouldn’t lead to a meltdown, but it did. She was so stressed last Friday that she got into a “negative do-loop” with me. It ended with her mad (I guess because Supermom wasn’t willing to bend the space/time continuum for her). She & her friends went to a Christmas tree lighting, though, and spent the night hanging out in town. She did feel better after that. Friends succeed where parents do not. :)</p>
<p>I guess we’ll know how she did when grades come. Personally, I don’t care. I am just glad that she is learning, thriving, growing up, etc.</p>
<p>Ahh… I’m so happy to be ignorant of all their assignments and projects and grades…
And I got an email from DS, promising to show me how to use my new (way too hightech) cell phone when he comes home. Yeah for technologically savvy kids! ;)</p>
<p>Wish I knew how things were going, but I’m in the same boat as anxiousmom…ldgirl doesn’t clue me. I do know her two tough exams are tomorrow and she’s not picking up the phone today, so I’m sure she is holed up somewhere in her favorite nook in her favorite ‘Hogwart’s’ library and it’s just best to leave her be. </p>
<p>The one class she is not enjoying is the accounting class required for admission to the School of Public Health. (Loves the professor, just not the subject matter.) We went over bonds payable and bond discount transactions and a few other things together at Thanksgiving and I can tell she has a good grasp of the principles. (What a waste…she could be a CPA like her mom! 
) She enjoys her other classes, so I think all will be fine.</p>
<p>MoWC - what’s the word? Will WC be allowed some extra time on that paper?</p>
<p>It looks like he will get a few days to reproduce the paper he already did, and then will scramble to get the next ones done. May get a little something back from homeowner’s insurance.
Lesson learned.
I’m actually pleased with how well WildChild is handling this. Something like this could have led to a simple packing of the car and heading for Utah again. I actually think that might have been MY reaction!</p>
<p>Me, too! Or I might have just dropped out for good. I can’t IMAGINE having to rewrite a paper. I hates to write papers…</p>
<p>I have been very fortunate. DD’s first semester, at a school 1,500 miles from home, couldn’t have gone any better. D has finished three of her courses with an “A” grade, says that an “A” is “in the bag” in two of her other courses, but complains that she’ll probably get a “B” in her last course. Um, I’ll take it. She loves the school, has become wonderfully close with her three suitemates, and – the icing on the cake – was accepted to a conditional guaranteed admission program to the college of veterinary medicine earlier in the semester. She’ll be home in about a week and I can’t wait. I feel blessed, but I’m sure that there will be some bumps down the road. MOWC, so sorry to hear about your son’s situation. I am originally from Philadelphia (live in CT now), but I apologize on behalf of my home town.</p>
<p>OT: At the college I work at, most of our students are too poor to own their own computers; they depend on the college network to get their work done, whether dorming or commuting. About a month ago, our student server, where most of them keep their work, went down. Turns out the school wasn’t backing up, so all manner of projects, papers, etc were lost. And of course, they blamed the students. For several weeks, most computer log-ins were tenuous, printers weren’t working, and kids were fighting for computer time on the few working terminals. We couldn’t seem to fix the problem, but we have money to put up huge stone gates along the streets which run through the school…the things they put up with, our more fortunate kids never would. They actually could use some helicopter parents to push for some kind of accountability.</p>
<p>Well, the Calc 2 exam is looming large on the horizon for S. Today, he told me that he actually went to prof’s office hours for extra help - something he NEVER did in HS. I can’t begin to explain how out of character this is for him!
Everything else is “no problem”.</p>
<p>Son had a date to a sorority formal last night. Who plans a sorority formal during exam week?? He’s got three exams left. Hopefully things will go well. Statics, Physics II, and DiffEq. He got a ticket the night before last. :(</p>
<p>MOWC. Wow! I would have lost it. Good for him!</p>
<p>I remember having a meltdown about 2 AM back in the day when I either forgot the carbon paper or left out a paragraph or sentence and had to retype a whole page. Can’t imagine losing everything.</p>
<p>My D has the last regular test of her 4 1/2 years of undergrad study tomorrow, in biochem. Four finals next week and she will have her B.S. in biology! I am so sad this era is drawing to a close. I wish she would have gone another semester this spring, but she is really burned out after a solid year of classes plus taking the MCAT last summer. She is applying to medical school and it truly is a stressful and mysterious process.</p>
<p>One of my greatest fears as a mom was that we wouldn’t have enough $ for my D’s college education, and now I can leave that fear behind us. She will graduate with no debt.</p>
<p>MezzoD is on the quarter system, so she finished her finals the day before Thanksgiving. She came home for Thanksgiving, returned to school for her choir tour, and I brought her home on Monday. Today she finally seems to have caught up on her sleep and is actually getting up in the morning, rather than late afternoon.</p>
<p>My daughter seems to deal with finals just fine; it’s mid-terms that cause meltdowns. This is probably because of the dedicated time for finals sans classes, but her mid-term crises always amuse me (I’m such a baaad mom!). This year’s meltdown was over her conducting class, and our “conversation” went something like this:</p>
<p>MezzoD: <em>sobs</em></p>
<p>Me: Are you OK?</p>
<p>MezzoD: I just had my conducting mid-term, and I know I failed it. I had to conduct first, and it was the one piece I was dreading, and I just know I’m going to lose my scholarship!!!</p>
<p>Me: <em>suppressing laughter</em> So, tell me more about the music…</p>
<p>MezzoD: It was awful. I think I had a mini-stroke in the middle of the piece, because my left hand just stayed glued to my side. And my right hand waved the music right off the stand, so I had to conduct while trying to pick the music off the floor. And the only reason I could direct anyone to breath was because I was hyper-ventilating myself…</p>
<p>Me: <em>covering snorting laughter with a fake cough</em> Well, don’t you think the professor will take into account that you went first and that your music was on the floor?</p>
<p>MezzoD: But what conductor ever loses their music? And what are we going to do when I lose my scholarship?</p>
<p>Me: Isn’t this just a 2 credit-hour course out of an 18 credit quarter? I hardly think your scholarship is in jeopardy. And isn’t your definition of “failing” usually a C, at worst?</p>
<p>MezzoD: Mom, it was awful. I’ve been crying since class let out, and now I have my opera audition…and since I’ve been crying, I’ll probably tank that too.</p>
<p>Bottom line…she got an A- on the conducting mid-term, with notes from the prof saying she tended to be too hard on herself (ya think?) and that he was very impressed with her ability to recover when the music went sailing away. Oh, and she was cast in the opera too. There’s never a dull moment when one has a drama queen for a daughter!</p>
<p>mezzomom. That is really funny. Glad you can read her.</p>
<p>D is on trimester break until after New Years. Don’t even get me started on how she managed her time during finals - suffice it to say that she has elevated procrastination to new levels. Grades are good, though. She is currently working in the prestigious food service industry to earn money for her study abroad during spring term.</p>
<p>Mezzomom reading posts like yours makes me grateful for our silent boys.</p>
<p>Mezzomom, your post reminds me why we’re paying for D to go college on the opposite coast - so we don’t have to participate in her melt-downs! </p>
<p>I thought that with her so far away I wouldn’t ever have to help her with homework again, but as it turned out I made a trip to the Berkeley Public Library on her behalf a couple of days ago. She’s writing a paper about Peoples’ Park Bloody Thursday for her history class (Riots, Conspiracies, and Insurrections, or some such). What a surprise, there isn’t a lot of information on it in Boston, but the Berk Pub Lib has it all. The artwork, even the colors of the fliers really took me back to 1969. Flower Power ruled!</p>
<p>Of course, the paper is due next week. I was proud of her for starting on it a whole week before the due date…</p>
<p>MoWC,</p>
<p>I’m sorry to hear about Wild Child’s horrible luck.</p>
<p>I remember when I was in college (1982-1986), I had an Apple computer. My dad is a technology nut, and since my college was offering Apples at a special student rate, he got me one. I was the only person I knew in my dorm who had a computer, so people borrowed it all the time to write papers. One time a boy was using it to write a paper, and after about 15 pages, lost the whole thing. I had never before and have never since seen a grown man cry like that poor boy did that day. He told me later that he wanted to throw the computer out the window! :(</p>
<p>MOWC, bless your son…who knows maybe his rewrite will be extra brilliant and have a whole new and better angle in it.
mezzomom…so funny. my roommate in college was a voice major (someone else always had a better voice, which is pretty NOT in one’s control) and she later got a conducting graduate degree in a major city…and I sooooooo remember these traumas…when the voice was wobbly or shakey or the music audition was dicey…She conducted professionally for two decades later…after getting a C in Music Theory I might add. horrors!</p>