Bluestars
Smile and let the world wonder
- Joined
- Oct 26, 2007
DD moves in in just about two weeks. She's still a technical theater major, but has added a computer science minor at Dad's insistence that she add something 'practical' to her degree.
She'll be in an on-campus apartment this year, it's 2 doubles with two bathrooms, a living room and a kitchen. She doesn't know any of the other girls who will be in the apartment. The other bedroom than hers only has one girl in it so far, but that will likely change. DD isn't worried about sharing the apartment with strangers because she's hardly ever in her room anyway.
She's excited to be a junior, but she has enough credits to graduate at the end of this year except for a couple required classes that she'll be short on. She has decided not to rush to finish, so she's going to just take it easy, 13 credits this semester and work on enhancing her resume. She's going to be the stage manager of one of the theater department productions this semester, and therefore will be spending most of her time in the theater shop (hence not caring about the room mate situation, since she'll spend almost all her non-class time there).
She spent the summer working on a couple community theater productions, she also worked several shows at her on campus job and the off-campus place that calls for per diem help. Most weeks she worked 3-4 days for the lady who runs an ebay store here in town, just like last summer.
I'll miss her when she's gone, but I will be glad to get back into our routine that we've gotten used to while she's at school.
That's exciting that she will be a stage manager and will get to spend a lot of time in the theater shop. It sounds like she got a lot of experience working on on theater productions. I know what you mean about getting back to a regular routine. While my son is in school, there is much less laundry and I go for days at a time without cooking dinner because my husband and I just make something simple. My food bill is cut in half and I only have to go to the grocery store every other week. The house stays clean. While my son is home, he always has friends over so I have to clean a lot more often. I will miss him though.
I just had to drop back in and say that my sons 2 roommates showed up. And one brought a kitten. And the other brought a year old dog. I didn't realize they could have pets in those apartments.
He said it was hectic in the apartment last night because the kitten kept wanting to play with the dog and the dog wanted no part of that.
I don't know what those guys were thinking - or maybe they weren't. They probably didn't communicate with each other. And pets will mean they can't just take off and go to the beach this year like they did last year a couple of times.
He finally just went in his room and closed his door. In addition, the apartment wi-fi wasn't working and he had to wait for tech support to show up and figure out why. For a computer major, that was extremely stressful and annoying. But it's working now and hopefully will stay that way.
What a shock to have his roommates show up with pets! My son has allergies, so it would have been a huge problem. I am surprised that college kids want to deal with pets while they are so busy with schools and other activities. That is very frustrating about the internet. Hopefully it will not keep going out.
My dd never really came home for the summer. She came home in May before her apartment lease started June 1st. She then went back up for an internship and to work. Stupid part is, her two roommates, have slept there maybe 4 times total, between the two of them, so she is always alone! In a crappy ground floor apartment. I was so excited to not have to move her again until graduation, but there is no way she will be staying there next year. Being below ground floor they get some bugs, and she hates bugs. The real fun part of that is that she will be in England still when her lease ends LOL, so it's all going to be on us and her roommate, if she keeps one. I hate that she is alone. I miss her something awful. I have seen her a few times, but nothing like when she is here.
Then in January she will leave for 5 months, and it will be 3 full months before I see her again, I may totally melt down LOL.
She has added her double major back in, she had dropped it to a Film major, writing minor, but now it's double again. She found she didn't have enough classes to take to get the film degree, so she figured why not. She could have graduated at the end of this year, but wanted to go to England, so she will now finish in 4.
It would be very lonely to be stuck in a crappy apartment basically by yourself. Going to London is definitely worth taking four yeast to finish!