Nothing.
Everything fell through and I dont see a viable job opportunity for her. She is still keeping busy by some things she put off during the last semester, and she has been sewing masks.
I have a bunch of household projects I can probably get her to do, but she will most likely research grad schools and binge watch TV. LOL. She really doesn’t want to go back if it’s remote learning because she loves the classroom. On the other hand, she doesn’t want to postpone her 2021 grad date.
Nothing. No jobs, no internships, and no classes. It’s like HS all over again!
I’m teaching them to cook aka - we’ve been making a lot of bread products!
Study abroad was cancelled. D is taking one class online, working part-time, and painting a few pet portraits. She has been staying at her apartment in college town, with occasional visits home (2 hr. drive)
S, rising sophomore, is 3000 miles away working full-time as a research assistant (outdoors). Had to quarantine for 14 days but could do that out-of-state before he arrived.
My junior nursing student just got hired as a patient care assistant at a big-city hospital … finally, hospitals are hiring and calling back nurses. Yes, many nurses got laid off during all this.
It sounds like an oxymoron!
My D is doing an internship with a consulting firm (virtual), taking foreign language classes 3 days per week, and working on grad school apps. The foreign language classes have been fantastic and she’s so happy she had this opportunity after her Maymester abroad got canceled, but the instructors are overseas 9 hours ahead, so her classes start at 2 am! She spends her free time socializing virtually with friends and reading. She is a social distancing pro. I have barely been able to get her outdoors since March.
@Mom2aphysicsgeek How does a virtual study abroad work?
D19 is doing her language intensive 5 days a week (moved to virtual). D20 is dancing 35 hours a week in a ballet intensive (which was also moved to virtual).
Nothing!!
Her summer campus job fell through. She’s been applying to bunch of jobs after coming home but still nothing. She is really bummed.
She is binge watching, sun bathing, lots of selfies, lots of Tik Tok thingy.
She might fly to her grandma’s. Grandma promised her money for the yard work!!
My son is a buying office intern at Kohl’s Corporate. It was changed from 10 weeks in person to 7 weeks virtual.
Not the same experience he was hoping for, but so grateful it was not canceled. He just finished his first week.
They limited the total number of kids in the program to 25 students who have been divided into 4 group levels with 4 professors. IIRC what dd has shared (these are my impressions of what she has shared, not my asking her and receiving answers) they are spending something like 4 hrs per day in class with the professor. They have 2 hrs of 1-on-1 with the professor per week. They have a language partner (they had something like 200 Russian students apply to be these 25 kids’ partners!) They are doing “cultural things” with their partners multiple hrs per week like cooking “together,” listening to music/movies together and chatting, (I’m not sure what all else they are planning on doing. I think dd can “tour” here and they can talk about what she is showing her partner bc the Russian students are pretty much locked down in terms of going out.) They are really focusing on language development (which is good bc that is what dd really wants.) I’m not 100% sure of all of the details, but CLS’s program has them receiving their credit hrs through Bryn Mawr.
@Mom2aphysicsgeek That sounds cool! So glad they put something together for the kids. Did they do this for all the critical languages?
Reading, writing, sleeping… Zoom calling his friends twice a week. That’s it.
All of his friends are hanging out with people they know, but our son doesn’t know anyone here and all of his college friends are a minimum 8 hr drive away. We’re not letting him fly, so he’s not going anywhere or seeing anyone.
Oh I forgot… he’s also trying to teach himself Irish. He says it’s very slow going and he has no idea what’s going on! LOL
So many college student incomes not being made this summer. 
Sad and hard for many.
D2 is a grad student with a year around program so she is jam packed with course work to what seems an excessive degree. Swamped. She has a great 1-2 day week babysitting gig for 2 of the professors at her university that is so good for her mentally and for her pocketbook.
Nephew who is a a rising sophomore is a music composer and had gigs set up out of the country that were of course cancelled. He has a few contracts he is working on for some $$ writing music and also just doing some music writing for his own enjoyment.
Rising junior twin sons lucky to be working their 7th summer at the same beach club. We are 3 miles from the beach, many high school friends return each summer. They were hoping for an internship less than an hour from home but it didn’t pan out, likely no in office staff at the company. But at least steady income. Only one can work study campus job.
My rising junior had been volunteering full time, since early May, wIth the Rescue Squad headquartered in his college town. He finally came home yesterday. He’ll begin his accelerated EMT certification course just after July 4th. The program is Monday-Friday from 9-5 for eighteen days. Once completed he’ll take a week off to relax, then head back to school a few weeks early to work with the Rescue Squad before school starts.
DD19 got an Americorps position with a Conservation Board a county over from us. She usually works 32 hours a week. COVID has cut out some of the fun like hosting field trips and kayak school was postponed and some other aspects are not great but we are grateful she got a job and one that is related to her major.
No, not for all languages and not for all students. They limited the number of students and the students invited were the top whatever number per program based on their “application score.” (The fact that their invitations were based on a number total was interesting. So, at least dd knows where she fell in the applicant pool. 
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