<p>Our DD graduated in May and is currently working a full-time temporary position with a large investment firm in Nashville. They have told her there is the possibility that it could work in to something else. Investment/banking isn’t really her area of interest, but she lucked in to the job and 40 hours a week in a job that pays okay is better than zero hours per week in a job that pays nothing. She is taking a year off before starting law school so this will allow her to save some money. She is currently living at home but plans to move to a rental home with three friends the first week of August. Time sure has flown!</p>
<p>Another poster that migrated from the PR board to here in 2002 or so. My daughter graduated College three years ago, taught in China for one year (fun to see my fellow China Mom’s!), taught at our local MS for a year and has been teaching in a Charter School Harlem but living in Brooklyn for the last school year. Her next chapter is grad school at Vanderbilt to major in International education and policy - maybe she’ll meet MOWC’s daughter! or the Mom herself!</p>
<p>My oldest son just graduated from Roanoke College a month ago and has been applying for jobs. An English major may not have been the best choice for job opportunities!</p>
<p>Youngest son is a rising senior in College and we’re searching high and low for the right college for him. I think I know too much, if you know what I mean.</p>
<p>Great thread! My d (who is my youngest) graduated with a degree in neuroscience from Barnard in 2009. She is finishing up her first year of her PhD at Emory and loves it! We also love that she is in Atlanta (and not NYC).</p>
<p>I am still around to try and help some others and because I too love the interactions here. Well, most of them. The political forum scares me a little.</p>
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<p>Oops, too late to edit. My youngest son is a junior in HIGH SCHOOL, and my excuse for still being here.</p>
<p>kathiep - so great to hear from you again. Wow (I’m using that word a lot in this thread) - what accomplishments, but ONE MORE to go!.
Honestly, I think that’s a good thing. I look back and see that I was so naive about this whole process. My view now is totally different and there are so many paths that I thought might happen (“prestige-type schools”) when in fact the best path for my S (and for the parents) was exactly where he ended up, in exactly the program he should have been in, and with exactly the group of bright, talented, driven friends that he gathered around him.</p>
<p>Remember, KathieP, in all jobs it is a good thing to know how to spell and write :)</p>
<p>Off topic, but related to our S who just graduated. I was teasing him about the many UCLA t-shirts he now has in his wardrobe. He smiled sheepisly & said it was from regional competitions he competed in. I hadn’t heard anything about them until he mentioned them. I asked how his team did & he reluctantly said they usually placed took about 3 of the top 4 places each year. I asked how he did & he said oh, he was usually 2nd place. Sheesh, the things we have to drag out of our kids–never knew he was even competing! I guess UCLA gives t-shirts with everyone who came to the competition. He said he thought he had more UCLA shirts than those from his alma mater!</p>
<p>Also got a call from his former landlord so she could mail me his security deposit. She said they’ll miss him and he was a GREAT KID, always helping around the place. Always nice to hear how others perceive our kids, especially when others seem to appreciate them.</p>
<p>HImom - That is so true (dragging things out of them). Yes, it is great to hear things like that.</p>
<p>Been hanging around CC since about 2002? It’s sometimes interesting to go back to the old boards and see some of the old names. Makes me wonder what happened to some folks?</p>
<p>Our only kid graduated in 2008. She’s been at Oxford the past two years, just finishing a Medical Anthro M.Phil. To our parental disappointment, she decided to stay on for a D.Phil instead of returning to the states. Something about liking the weather there? 
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<p>At least we have a good excuse for visiting the UK. Just got back from two weeks there, which is why I just found this thread.</p>
<p>I didn’t even know CC has been around that long… it’s a legacy</p>
<p>I’m my own data point. Joined CC back in 2002, I want to say. Precocious sophomore! (Is that as oxymoronic as I think it is?)</p>
<p>After hopping from UCSC to a local CC to UC Berkeley and graduating a semester late in May 2009 with a BA in English, I got a job with a textbook publishing company in the Bay Area. When the position I was hired for was eliminated a scant three months after I started there (!), I was only too grateful to accept the transfer into Marketing. And here I am now!</p>
<p>Not my life’s work, though, that’s for sure. Looking into graduate studies, world travel, and volunteering escapades. In case my transfer history doesn’t show it, I don’t like to stay in one place too long. :)</p>
<p>Haven’t posted here in a while. Son graduated from MIT in June in EECS, is enjoying a relaxing summer for a change (between internships, UROPs, courses, summer programs and the like, this is his first real summer off since 2003). He and girl friend will spend the next month or so in Europe visiting her relatives, traveling a bit. Then it’s on to grad school at MIT in the fall.</p>
<p>Looking back, I am grateful to all the posters here on CC for their collective wisdom when we were going through the college admission process. As they say, “none of us is as smart as all of us.”</p>