<p>We are going to Friends and Family Weekend for our younger daughter, who is looking forward to our visit. Our older daughter wanted us to be there her freshman year, but after that…</p>
<p>2 1/2 weeks more for us. Looking forward to it. Asked DS to round up any strays that won’t have parents visiting and we will take them under wing. I remember my own freshman parent’s weekend and how much I looked forward to seeing mom and dad.</p>
<p>The canned events are actually fun for first-timers. After that, you’re best just inventing your own parents’ weekend, which is what we do, and ours coming up at the end of next month will be just like Weenie’s with a little mountain hiking, art shopping, and leaf-peeping thrown in. This will be our last fall trip as Williams College parents…hard to believe. I will miss having boots on the ground there…errr, make that flip-flops on the ground. It has been great vicarious fun.</p>
<p>Wow! Amazing trip dubaiite. Have a great time.</p>
<p>driver: Imagine us having similar interests! Perhaps there’s hope for the world! :)</p>
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<p>I like to visit at parent weekend because it does feel more comfortable for everyone when there are more parents around. You feel a lot less like an intruder. Although, if son was closer I’m sure we’d be goingnow and then for concerts and stuff!</p>
<p>We’re not going to go for Parents’ Weekend, as we already spent 3 weeks traveling around CA this summer prior to “move-in day.” S doesn’t see the point of us coming for Parents’ Weekend, and honestly, neither do I or hubby. My D is still in HS & we don’t like to leave her anyway & S is very happy in college. We may visit after my friend finishes remodeling her house & we can stay with them – maybe next summer/fall, in connection with college visits for D. Not sure I want to be part of the mob scene that is Parents’ Weekend anyway; my folks never participated but would let us know when they’d be anywhere near our campuses & we could arrange to meet them if our schedules permitted. We’ll probably use a similar approach with our S–hubby has a trip & will likely be able to stop in LA on the way home & can visit with S. Not sure when the date will be but will let S know when it gets closer.</p>
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Right down to and including the ultimate frisbee. Purple Valley Tournament, baby!</p>
<p>My son is OBSESSED with ulitmate! He is having SO much fun with it. I’m so happy about that.</p>
<p>It’s great exercise, it’s co-ed, and they run it themselves! What could be more fun? I’m considered a UF house-mother, as they stay with me (as many as 20 or more) on their way to tourneys. Lots of fun.</p>
<p>driver: He has stayed with several with his teammate’s families and appreciated it (especially the moms who cook!). I always wished we lived close enough, or somewhere on their route, to host, but alas, it’s too far. It sounds fun!</p>
<p>I can’t wait! Mootmom have we decided on a meeting place yet??</p>
<p>There’s nothing like waking up and making coffee with two dozen dozing college students in sleeping bags all over the house. It’s like a scene from “Cocoon.”</p>
<p>Looking forward to Carleton’s in a few weeks. I’m really looking forward to going to their football game (I’ve sort of become addicted to listening to them over the internet).</p>
<p>We enjoyed family weekends two years–watching other parents bond with their kids, getting to know some other parents. We didn’t go last year and we can’t go this year; $l,000 for a weekend (flight, room, food) is just too much. </p>
<p>We were kind of hurt the two years we went by how little our son could visit us, then felt less hurt when we found out we weren’t alone. Other parents had been told after a half hour of visiting their first day that the kid needed to study, and that the next two days would be just a couple of hours each day. Unfortunately, MIT doesn’t lessen the work for Parents’ weekend! (Perhaps other kids are better organized or don’t feel the need to take a heavy schedule.)</p>
<p>I’m going to Roanoke’s Family weekend this weekend without my husband or younger son because both have other commitments. I’ve signed up for a few of the events but figured I can back out of anything if son wants to do something else. The one thing that I’m looking forward to is a short hike in the Blue Ridge mountains with son and his outdoor group. Hoping for good weather.</p>
<p>We went to the first two years at our daughters college. Last year (junior year) we went out to see her comedy improv group instead and this school year we’ll go to GRADUATION instead. I think that will be even more fun then a parents weekend!</p>
<p>I check the school web page myself and find the home athletic events and cultural events that are scheduled. That way, I know the schedule of available events, rather than relying on S and D. If they are too busy to do something, I consult my private list.</p>
<p>anyone going to U. Chicago Parents weekend?</p>
<p>we went ( or at least I, my mother and my daughter did) to parents weekend freshman year
It was timed to coincide with big paper, and since grandmother, was not too mobile it limited what we could do.
( lesson- do not allow Gma to make me feel guilty because I don’t want to sit in the hotel room and let her lecture me for her entertainment)
Next time we went down for midwinter break instead- much more fun
We also have gone down for musical performances, although I wasn’t able to attend all I would have liked to, because of younger Ds sports schedule.
The first year is fun though- although if big papers are due, you might as well go the next weekend ;)</p>
<p>Starting with soph year, we went as a family to move in day- younger D helped her organize her room, and then moved on to helping rest of the dorm.
H would also go at end of year to bring her home
( but after graduation this year she stayed 
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<p>Not going to Parents Weekend this year. Last year we went and it coincided with D’s birthday. This year, it is the next weekend, and her birthday falls on the Tuesday before. She asked us to come on her birthday instead of PW.
So, that is what we are going to do, however, it is not till the last weekend in October.</p>
<p>Not doing it…3000 miles and DS isn’t dying for us to come. He already has invites for Thanksgiving so hopefully some of those friend’s parents will take pity on him and invite him to tag along for a decent meal…he has no shortage of friends on campus so that is good.</p>
<p>Went 2 weekends ago and stayed Thurs-Sat nights. D wanted to know if it was “ok” for her to spend the nights with us in the hotel. We, of course, were thrilled to have her as she’s our one & only. Just like at home, she stayed in the shower forever all 3 nights.</p>
<p>We were able to watch 1st club volleyball practice one night & first match the next, attended some classes (the only “planned” activity we attended), ate in the servery a couple meals, and I even did her little bit of laundry on Sat afternoon while she studied. That came in handy this week when she called asking how to use the newest (and only available at that moment) washing machine which is the same one I used that weekend! We even stayed up late Sat night studying for a big upcoming exam just like HS years! And, of course, we took her to her favorite restaurant.</p>
<p>It was great. Wouldn’t have missed it for the world.</p>