<p>“…which makes him, gulp, a 3rd year student now. (just add water, I guess)”
:)</p>
<p>So momofinca, what is your son’s thinking? And yours?</p>
<p>dstark, (brief highjack – sorry) I’m going to pick S up from the airport in a bit so I’ll be sure to ask him what he’s thinking!! lol</p>
<p>In the brief phone conversation that we had a couple weeks ago, he said that he wants to work on an 08 political campaign and that with just 7 classes to go in his major, he can finish in two semesters, have the LSAT under his belt and be employable (I’m thinking volunteerable, but hey, he’s optimistic). Frankly, I’m surprised. Not about the desire to go work on a campaign but about leaving school before the four years we’re paying for is up. Last year at this time, he was going to do three majors and take four full years. Now it’s one major and 2.5 years total of college. He likes school, is heavily involved in an EC, but I think the real world of politics is just tempting and 08 promises to be an interesting year for several candidates he has an eye on. </p>
<p>But maybe this afternoon he will be planning something else! :)</p>
<p>momof2inca, you have a very bright son with a passion.
Sounds good to me.</p>
<p>Cheers - I love it. Immersive Arabic in Morroco. I just love it. No wonder some unnamed entity wants to give him $1000 for some unknown reason. He’s clearly a resourceful problem solver:).</p>
<p>Mine just said to me not more than 5 mins ago…“I have to get off the east coast, I’m applying to grad school in California”… ACK!</p>
<p>laxmom,</p>
<p>Smart kid. ;)</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ve told my parents anything too surprising so far this year. Maybe I should fix that …</p>
<p>Mine is probably the only one here who came home for break to say:</p>
<p>“I’ve been interviewed for ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’!”</p>
<p>LOL garland. Yup, he’d be the only one I’ve heard about.</p>
<p>We’re keeping our fingers crossed he gets on. It’ll subsidize his poker career!</p>
<p>S says “I know how to make macaroni and cheese from scratch now and I’m pretty proud of it.” </p>
<p>He’s over the box, I guess.</p>
<p>Your third year talks to you? Ours isn’t coming home for Thanksgiving because she is spending a year studying abroad. The best we have been able to extract is an occasional IM about how the internet doesn’t work well or the power went off briefly in the apartment building. My wife IM’d her recently about what she made herself for dinner that night and she said: “Rice”. </p>
<p>What eles besides rice? “Just rice.” Hmm.</p>
<p>Requests for her to describe the city, her classes, classmates, etc. are often met with “I’ve got a lot of work to do, bye”. Good, I guess, if true. Maybe we will find out at Christmas.</p>
<p>2dsdad, Your D sounds like my S’s soulmate. At least wrt communication style. But I guess we wouldn’t want them to meet up - if they married, we’d never hear anything. I’ve decided that my one great hope is that DS finds and marries a chatty kathy. :o</p>
<p>As my junior said to me yesterday: “I kept thinking that the next year would be easier…but they’re only getting HARDER!”</p>
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<p>Garland, I know of a student who did just that. I am sure that the parents cringed initially but the kid made over $200,000 last year. :o</p>
<p>Here’s one from my second year of college…</p>
<p>Me and my boyfriend are going to get an apartment next year to save on costs! [what I didn’t tell them…boyfriend is flunking out of school and will probably have to work full time next year]</p>
<p>Third year…</p>
<p>I think I’m going to go to field camp in Ireland this summer! I know you don’t have the money…I’ll find a way…[thank God I took a full-time internship in the Spring that year and got scholarships to cover most of it]</p>
<p>End of thrid year…</p>
<p>My boyfriend is moving back home to go to community college, but we are staying together long-distance. [yes, he’s grown up…and we are getting married now…they weren’t too happy at first, but they are happy now that he’s matured]</p>
<p>From my four brothers:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>I’ve written a treatise about what’s wrong with the (famous) university and presented it to 20 professors so far (freshman year).</p></li>
<li><p>I’ve decided to drop Russian and Math and become a dance major so that I can be a ballerina.</p></li>
<li><p>I know you’ve driven eight hours to attend graduation, but I am not going to the ceremony (and he didn’t). (Senior year)</p></li>
<li><p>My girlfriend is pregnant and she’s decided to have the baby. (sophomore year)</p></li>
<li><p>I won’t be invited back, I failed too many courses.</p></li>
<li><p>I am going to hitchhike home (3500 miles away).</p></li>
<li><p>There are too many women and too little time.</p></li>
<li><p>I slept with my best friend’s girlfriend one time and she’s going to have the baby and give it up for adoption.</p></li>
<li><p>I have decided that I am most like a _______ ( an insect). I am going to use that knowledge to approach life (and he did/does).</p></li>
<li><p>I am working in a canning factory. This is a picture of my house for the summer. (Picture of a hill with a large log and an arrow poitning to the log).</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Funny thing is…I thought it was all so normal until I had boys of a similar age.</p>
<p><my parents sure loved this one from their third-year daughter:</p>
<p>“hey my wrist is swollen. i think i fractured it.”
“how?”
“oh i was at a fraternity formal last night.”></p>
<p>OMG - I actually got a call from my 2nd-year D who said she thinks she broke her wrist! When I asked her how, she said “I don’t remember.”</p>
<p>he/she refers to someone as “my hookup” :(</p>
<p>SBmom, is that in the drug sense or the casual lovin’ sense?</p>