<p>Screen name: live in NJ, D1 graduated HS in 2011</p>
<p>Education: BS Accounting, MBA finance</p>
<p>Paid Employment: Investment field (fixed income, private equity)</p>
<p>non-paid employment: USA & YMCA Swim official, CPR/First aid instructor, EMT </p>
<p>Random fact: Collegiate varsity letter in Pistol Shooting. (fantasy is to get back into competition and make it to Olympic trials)</p>
<p>cc-ers I’ve met: none that I know, but given where I live, probably have IRL</p>
<p>Screenname- inspired by my son who may be, finally, outgrowing the name</p>
<p>Education- Indiana, UChicago but current loyalty is to Vanderbilt!</p>
<p>Hang my hat- in Tennessee- grew up in Phila area and spent 28 years in Dallas before this latest settling</p>
<p>Where I want to be- Crested Butte, CO or St. John, USVI but I really do love Tennessee</p>
<p>Day Job- Attorney (in house)</p>
<p>Passion- Distance running </p>
<p>CC connections- I’ve met a number of CCers and have formed some great friendships- one former poster got me back into competitive marathon running in 2009. Others have become professional connections.</p>
<p>Screename: self-explanatory</p>
<p>Education:<br>
Bachelors: Business and Finance.
Masters: Software Engineering (oh my, the pre-reqs I had to go back and do - but the aerospace company paid for all, so great!).</p>
<p>Employment: Financial Counseling, Defense Industry, SAHM when kids were little, Substitute Teaching (when kids were in school), ran major school fundraisers (obviously not paid!), helped a friend open an appliance business and actually was pretty good at selling appliances…who knew! (that was FUN!), a few other things, and now managing our rental properties. </p>
<p>CC people that I’ve met…I’ve met many CC people. Mostly all have kids attending Alabama or are current Bama students who are on CC. Met many of them at a “group meets” at a Bama Bound Orientation and Parents Weekend. However, I have had people come up to me on Bama’s campus and ask me, “Are you Mom2CollegeKids”? Seriously! When I’m not doing anything odd…just standing in line at Starbucks or whatever.</p>
<p>ScreenName: I was born in Austin and attended UT for six years, so I will always be a Longhorn, but we moved to Maine in 1986.</p>
<p>Education: BS in Architectural Engineering; MS in Engineering</p>
<p>Job: DH and I own our consulting firm, so I’m a structural engineer, bookkeeper, AutoCAD drafter, secretary, etc.</p>
<p>Random fun facts: I am about the most unathletic person in the world, but I started running in 2006 and have done quite a few races, including 3 half-marathons, one of which was in Las Vegas, where I met MomofWildChild (she is a fast runner!).</p>
<p>CCers I have met: YouDon’tSay, jackief, aliceinw, BUandBC, Lafalum84, austinmtmom, MomofWildChild (I’m sorry if I forgot anybody!!)</p>
<p>Screenname–Surname of great-grandmother. A lot of people think I’m a guy named Garland, but I’m female.</p>
<p>Education–BA and MA from UMich.</p>
<p>Live in NJ–half the time in the NYC suburbs, and half the time near the Delaware Bay way south.</p>
<p>Employment–adjunct in English comp, literature, some environmental stuff. Have worked in the past as academic counselor for at-risk college students, also receptionist, library shelver, and once got paid for testing life jackets in a wave tank. </p>
<p>But my real passion is writing–have written a novel not yet published but have published some short stories and poetry.</p>
<p>Fun facts: I must be related to Busdriver11 because Emerson is my fourth cousin five times removed. Also related to William Prescott, Samuel Prescott, and Daniel Boone.</p>
<p>Other facts: love kayaking, biking and hiking.</p>
<p>CCers I have met: Kathyp, Lorelei, Tess.</p>
<p>Screen name: created while listening to an Italian song that repeated musica over and over again.</p>
<p>Education: BS and MA in Art History, and Laureata in Restauro (Italian Degree in Art Restoration). </p>
<p>Lived in : California, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Italy (Venice and Florence.)</p>
<p>Employment: (worked every year of my life since I was 13!) among the many jobs…Retail, Bartender, Line Cook, Sous Chef, Waitress, Production Assistant (Film), Media Planner (advertising), adjunct professor and currently a small business owner (nine employees). </p>
<p>Obsession: Plein aire painting, (I’ve sold over fifty!), travel and hiking. I am the best cook you never met. Besides learning Italian in Italy, I hung out in private and professional kitchens to learn from the best cooks on the planet. Also…I can watch any movie made between 1935 and 1955 and name every obscure character actor or actress on the screen by sight. (My mind is a reservoir of useless information.)</p>
<p>Random fun fact: If you watched MTV in its first two years of existence, you probably saw me dance (yet another job)</p>
<p>Screen name: S1’s college team (Wolfpack)…feel a little guilty that S2’s team isn’t represented but he was only in 9th grade when I joined CC. </p>
<p>Education: BS Nursing</p>
<p>Lived in: North Carolina all my life</p>
<p>Employment: Babysitter,Snack bar attendant, Waitress, Hospital inventory clerk, College career office assiatant ,Nurse tech., Nurse, SAHM (15 years),Preschool teacher</p>
<p>Fun Fact: My Quaker ancestors received a Land Grant from England in 1714 for a large tract of land in what later became southeastern VA and northeastern NC. The (NC) homeplace was built in 1796 with bricks for the foundation brought over from England. It has been continously occupied ever since. Three hundred years later…never left the family…my cousin farms it now. My grandmother and her twin sister attended Guilford College. I have her 1918 diploma. </p>
<p>CC’ers I’ve met: none in the flesh but have a strong friendship with someone I met on CC five years ago who’s not on CC anymore. We’ve never met IRL but talk on the phone/email, frequently and consider ourselves close friends. DH thinks that’s nuts. He doesn’t understand the power of CC :)</p>
<p>Screen name: My children. I’m the mom.</p>
<p>Education: BA Communications</p>
<p>Lived in: Maryland all my life</p>
<p>Employment: Babysitter, lifeguard, waitress, then “real” jobs that used my degree. Mostly corporate communications stuff; for the last 12 years I’ve been an intranet content manager.</p>
<p>Fun Facts: I can wiggle my ears. I did the Goofy marathon at Disney World. </p>
<p>CC’ers I’ve met: Lafalum84. Also, I feel blessed to say I have a few CC friends who have become FB friends.</p>
<p>Screen name: my first name and initial of last name</p>
<p>Education: Colorado (BA) Syracuse (MA) Chicago (MPP)</p>
<p>Jobs: I was a lobbyist for NGO’s until I became a SAHM. Now I have a small business prepping homes for sale. </p>
<p>Lived - in chronological order: Ct, Central NY, Colorado, NYC, Central NY, Chicago, Central NY, East Central NY. </p>
<p>Fun Fact: I have never been beaten in Scrabble and I have every score sheet to prove it. :)</p>
<p>Obsessions: tennis - playing and watching, mah jongg and gardening. </p>
<p>CCers I have met: Kinderny.</p>
<p>Screen name: picked after getting FA results for my first kid. I was maybe a little bitter.</p>
<p>Education: BS in Computer Engineering</p>
<p>Lived in: Maryland as a kid, MA since graduation</p>
<p>Employment: Software Engineer for nearly 30 years at many different companies. In HS and college I worked for the concessions company at a MLB stadium. Quick hint: never eat a hot dog before the 3rd inning.</p>
<p>Fun facts: I play viola in an orchestra and string quartet for fun. Taught myself how to play a five string banjo.</p>
<p>CC’ers I’ve met: none that I know of.</p>
<p>Screen name: self explanatory</p>
<p>Education: BA Econ, MBA Finance, finance professional certifications</p>
<p>Jobs: Investment banking: corporate finance and derivatives trading, post MBA training firm, and institutional money management (last two have been flex while I have been primary parent)</p>
<p>Lived - 4 countries and 8 states</p>
<p>Fun Fact: see immediately above</p>
<p>Obsessions: reading, mah jongg (yay emilybee), community and faith based service </p>
<p>CCers I have met: none</p>
<p>screen name: sunnie was a nick name and I was mistaken for a nun at at Jimmy Buffett concert!</p>
<p>Have several degrees in Education but only taught in the classroom one semester. However in every job since teaching has been an important component of my responsibilities. </p>
<p>The long and winding career road had me on the path of community education, volunteer management, program development and marketing. For the last 15 years, I’ve run several visitors centers and coordinated marketing/promotion for the county. </p>
<p>I’ve met peskemom and a few others in person several years ago when our children all attended the same school. Have stayed in touch with her and correspond with several others via the message board here. </p>
<p>There isnt anything random about me, predictable and boring.</p>
<p>whats funny, fendergirl, is that you posted about yourself in a similar thread 7 years ago when you were a college senior! :)</p>
<p>Your entire life can change in 7 years, especially when you’re young. I’d love to see what my college senior would post about his life 7 years from now.</p>
<p>Well thats true, but doubtful her history has changed much 
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/336731-post13.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/336731-post13.html</a></p>
<p>Oh, I strongly disagree. A lot happens between 22 and 29. At 22 I was a college student. By 29 I was married and a mommy, and yes, there were jobs along the way, too.</p>
<p>Apologies if I was unclear. Her HISTORY to that point (2005) would not change between then and now. What has happened since, of course, is another story.</p>
<p>Screen name: Refers to Kid 1. I came to CC when Kid 1 scored well on her PSAT … wondered what that might mean in terms of college. Got hooked on CC, and S is a bit bent out of shape about the screen name. Too late, because he is three years after his sister!</p>
<p>Education: Bachelor of Industrial Administration from a small cooperative engineering school. Basically, it is a hybrid industrial engineering/manufacturing management degree.</p>
<p>Jobs: At 23, I was a production supervisor in a truck plant, working in body shop and paint shop. I moved into higher ed, working in admissions, cooperative programs, registrar’s office, and financial aid. Had kids, stayed home, volunteered (you name it, I chaired it), worked to improve our town’s public school system, worked as a lunch attendant (lunch room and playground at an elementary school), worked as a guest teacher (mostly high school, but a lot of elementary, too). Got back into financial aid, but left to pursue another opportunity (group benefits). My dream job fell from the sky, and I am moving on from the current job to a managerial job in higher ed.</p>
<p>CCers I have met: a mom from Brentwood, TN who is no longer on CC that I met at a scholarship event at Furman; a young man at Furman who is no longer on CC; momofwildchild. I have an email relationship with Georgiatwins (I owe her an email!). I got to chat on the phone with curmudgeon once … it was awesome! :)</p>
<p>Other Random facts: My in laws have a cottage on an island in southwest Michigan, and I love spending time there (in the summer only, since you have to take a car ferry to get there).</p>
<p>And apologies again, but I should have clarified the comment in post #33 that I was responding to the OP where she said she hadn’t found a thread like this so decided to start one. My tongue-in-cheek comment was in reference to the fact that while she couldnt find a thread like this, she had in fact posted in a thread like this before. But it was a long time ago and it took me a while to find it. Apologies for being obtuse.</p>
<p>Screen name: Created about 42 seconds after I learned that S2 had been accepted ED to his first choice :)</p>
<p>Education: Northwestern University BA in Comparative Literature; MBA from Stern School at NYU.</p>
<p>Jobs: Washed dishes for a hotel on Block Island when I was 14, and worked in a gift shop there the summer I was 18. Worked as an editor/writer for 10 years before graduate school. Worked in HR since then, mainly in the benefits field. Worked for both corporations as benefits director and consulting firms as consultant.</p>
<p>Fun facts: Had open heart surgery at age 29 to repair a congenital defect. May be a fun fact, but was not a fun experience. </p>
<p>Grew up in NJ, lived in Manhattan, for 17 years, now in CT for 25 years. </p>
<p>CC-ers I’ve met: Too many to name, so forgive me if I forget you: jym626, binx, great lakes mom, DonnaL, mathmom, mythmom, sybbie, the group in Reading, PA, and several others. S1 and DH had dinner last night with boysx3.</p>