<p>I’ll post before I head out of town…waiting for my D to awaken so we can load our VERY full guest room which is a holding pattern for everything we gathered of her “life” to the car. We actually are taking two cars (so one good aspect will be that it won’t be a giant jigsaw puzzle of how to fit it all in) because she is going to have a car at college this year. Her stuff would never fit in that car but also we want to go and help her move in and set up. Everything is gathered but not packed or loaded now. My D would like to get to Providence in time for dinner to eat out in an area she has not yet been to (Federal Hill). She and I are hoping to pack and load her car up and leave before Dad makes it home and have him load the rest into my car and come later, so that she and I can go to dinner. We move her into the dorm tomorrow. Rain would be quite bad because I do not think cars can get that close to her new dorm. She is rooming with her roomie from last year as they were a good match. She is currently driving with her mom from Chicago and she, too, is having her car at school.</p>
<p>Have not yet heard again from the younger one in New York but I do take notice of her AIM away message (shhh, don’t tell) and it kinda lets me know she got home safely for the night (cause it changes!). She is probably feeling like she is in heaven at the moment.</p>
<p>Poetsheart, thanks for the sweet note. I will likely still hang out here even if my kids both started college. And yes, there have been some rough spots in my life while I have been on CC (three years now!). Thank you for remembering my dad. I only wish he could have seen where the girls ended up at college, plus lots else. He was VERY into his six grandkids. He was very sad that he would not see any of their graduations (the oldest two graduated in 2004 and he died the previous Thanksgiving). One of the last things he had even said the day before he died when his condition had worsened that day so that he was not coherent as he had been up until that day and in fact was never bed ridden or in a hospital, but he asked me if my older one’s letter from Yale had come yet (she had applied EA and he was confused because it was still Nov.). I know he’d be so proud at graduation and also to learn of Brown (my brother had gone to Brown). He did not know that my younger one was going to graduate early…perhaps the early rumblings of it came up at that point but that was not decided until two months after he died. He would not have been into that and surely would have been worried that we let her go to NYC this young (as is my mom, who ironically even grew up in Manhattan!) but there is no keeping that kid down. She is a VERY persistent kid who knows what she wants to do. </p>
<p>Sybbie, I did not realize you were going to school…you already are a school counselor, no? Or are you still earning a Master’s or is it now a doctorate? Are you going to Steinhardt? Geez, you could be passing my D on the street…I should have you check on her, yeah right…over her dead body! I saw what you mean about the area she lives in. On our walk to the bank, we went through Union Square and yes, she pointed out Whole Foods and said she heard it was very good. We did get the 19 meal plan because we thought that was best to do and the difference in cost between that and the next one down was quite insignificant. I’ll tell her about using the NYUCard at Whole Foods. She won’t even be on campus three days per week as she has to go to her musical theater studio from 9-6 (called CAP21) which is on 18th around 5th. I can’t imagine her finding her way to things but she’ll learn. I really hope she went to the session on getting around the city. She has been to NYC MANY times but we used taxis on those trips but now that she lives there, she has to learn the city by foot and by subway/bus. Where we live, there is NO going ANYWHERE by foot and certainly no public transportation. </p>
<p>Well, my D has awakened and onto this big move. Later…</p>
<p>Yep, I am at Steinhardt in doing the doctoral program in counseling (I had gotten a masters there also). </p>
<p>Don’t worry, she is in a great walking neighborhood close to shopping, the movies, the farmers market at union square is really great, and in no time she will think that she has been there her whole life. Tell her don’t worry, I work in the west village, I get there in time for class then I am out (the great thing about graduate school is that classes only meet once a week) so I will not be checking up on her but she can feel free to have tea with me:D </p>
<p>I do like like the Fall Fest so I may pass through when it is going on but I won’t rat her out </p>
<p>Susan,hope your second college move in a week goes well. Today the word from NYU is rain. D is stuck in the dorm trying to figure out what to do about dinner. The only complaint I have about this welcome week thing is that dinig halls aren’t open. It added a lot of extra expense to the beginning of the year since she is there a full 9 days before dining hall opens. D is having a blast and seems to be meeting people in the dorm and socializing a lot. She is interested in choreography, in fact Gallatin has a young choreographers club she is planning to audition for. I am sure your d is having a blast, too. She will be a vey busy girl once classes begin. I know our friend in the CAP21 program never used her meal plan because her classes were not near the dining hall and she was in class M-W-F all day. I am still trying to get used to the fact that my child now lives in NYC!!! Hope we both continue to get good reports!!</p>
<p>There was some rain this morning, otherwise it was a hot and sunny day in NYC. Went to school to finally get my ID, got a chance to speak with some incoming freshmen while I was waiting on line. There are still parents in NYC with their kids. Things seemed to move pretty quickly. Someone said that yesterday was a madhouse with lines around the corner. </p>
<p>On young man I had spoken to (he attends Stern) told me that he had to get his ID today because it was the last day that the school would alow them to eat on the meal plan without an ID. He said that there has been lots of events planned over the next few days. The school had taken students to the ESPN zone last night. Does D’s meal plan also include discretionary spending as there are a number of resturants in the neighborhood that take the NYU card so even if she does not eat in the dining hall, she can still eat.</p>
<p>S1 just moved into his dorm at Brown (thanks Susan, for your counsel about how to do that) and the call I just got was so happy! I am thrilled to hear from him. He flew up with his father, who called to report that he (the Dad) had a minor melt-down when driving away from the dorm. But all is so well with S1. The sounds of kids having a blast were all around him, and he says his roommate is very friendly and a computer whizz . . .</p>
<p>They keep the kids so busy and entertained, I feel sure he will be pretty well oriented by tomorrow night and then have several more days of it just be to sure all is settled.</p>
<p>I have been amazingly calm over the last several days, mostly happy that he has a great place to go, and I have to say, my perspective has been deeply affected by all that has been going on on the Gulf Coast. How that changes everything, to know what people are suffering.</p>
<p>Soozie–those NYC move-ins really are a breed apart, aren’t they? I’m still dazed from last year’s, though there were less frosh at S’s school (and he moved in early for pre-orientation trip) but we did the parking woes, the bins, the elevators, etc. They did let us keep the bin longer, which was good. But it was certainly different from the older kid’s move in, as I’ m sure you felt, too. We do the NYC thing twice this weekend, as S is moving into dorm on SAturday, and his older sister is moving into an apt with other Wes grad friends in Brooklyn on Monday. I shudder even thinking about i t!</p>
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