MerissaAndMomLoveDis
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Sep 16, 2008
I'm also in the boat of realizing, as I am reading here, that my DD leaves for college NEXT MONTH. As in August 3rd! Stanford's official Frosh move in day is September 18, with Orientation starting that evening and first day of classes Sept 23, but DD applied to and was accepted into the Stanford Summer Engineering Academy which is a type of summer bridge program. She is so excited. It gives them two credit hours to be applied to the Autumn quarter, exposure to all of the types of engineering majors offered at Stanford, mentoring from faculty, and best of all it is FREE. She is being flown out Aug 3 and flies home Aug 30th.
So we are currently trying to figure out what necessities she will take on the August trip (with only one checked bag and one carry on bag), and then we will have two and a half weeks in September to tweak what she wants to take for Frosh move in (flying Southwest so have 4 checked bags plus carryons between the two of us). I hope that a month in the dorms there will give her a better idea of what kind of bedding, what kind of fan (no AC in them dorms), what kind of desk lamp, what kind of backpack/bags/shoes/clothing. She's also making College Wish lists on Bed Bath and Beyond and Target, as we will need to pick up big items and some toiletries once we get to Palo Alto. It is such a huge balancing act--what can we pick up there/what do we already have/ooo that is on sale now, but will it fit.
We are also in that "ready, but not ready stage". She is working two ten hour shifts per week tutoring at the local community college, but most of the rest of her time is being spent with friends, getting in all of last goodbyes, and going thru her things to donate, sell, keep at home, take to college. This summer sure is flying by fast.
We are also having a big 18th birthday party bash/going off to college at a local restaurant on the 19th. I had major back surgery 3 weeks before graduation, so I was just not able to give her a big graduation party then. Since she just turned 18, she's been working on all of the changes needed during the last couple of days--got her DL renewed, applied for and received a credit card in her name, got her bank accounts moved from teen accounts from under mine to her own independent account. We have also discovered that a job she held reported her income under the wrong social security number--an 8 was reported as a 3. she did not have to file taxes that year due to low income and no taxes taken, so we barely glanced at it at the time--mad at myself for not reviewing it more closely at the time. We contacted the employer several times and they refused have to do anything to fix it. She is going to go to the social security office to see what needs to be done since the employer will not file a corrected W-2 for prior year. Anyone had to deal with this before/any advice?
So we are currently trying to figure out what necessities she will take on the August trip (with only one checked bag and one carry on bag), and then we will have two and a half weeks in September to tweak what she wants to take for Frosh move in (flying Southwest so have 4 checked bags plus carryons between the two of us). I hope that a month in the dorms there will give her a better idea of what kind of bedding, what kind of fan (no AC in them dorms), what kind of desk lamp, what kind of backpack/bags/shoes/clothing. She's also making College Wish lists on Bed Bath and Beyond and Target, as we will need to pick up big items and some toiletries once we get to Palo Alto. It is such a huge balancing act--what can we pick up there/what do we already have/ooo that is on sale now, but will it fit.
We are also in that "ready, but not ready stage". She is working two ten hour shifts per week tutoring at the local community college, but most of the rest of her time is being spent with friends, getting in all of last goodbyes, and going thru her things to donate, sell, keep at home, take to college. This summer sure is flying by fast.
We are also having a big 18th birthday party bash/going off to college at a local restaurant on the 19th. I had major back surgery 3 weeks before graduation, so I was just not able to give her a big graduation party then. Since she just turned 18, she's been working on all of the changes needed during the last couple of days--got her DL renewed, applied for and received a credit card in her name, got her bank accounts moved from teen accounts from under mine to her own independent account. We have also discovered that a job she held reported her income under the wrong social security number--an 8 was reported as a 3. she did not have to file taxes that year due to low income and no taxes taken, so we barely glanced at it at the time--mad at myself for not reviewing it more closely at the time. We contacted the employer several times and they refused have to do anything to fix it. She is going to go to the social security office to see what needs to be done since the employer will not file a corrected W-2 for prior year. Anyone had to deal with this before/any advice?
have been my primary reason for tacking on a MK day on our way home from the beach. 
These are the shots I was after:
Beach Grad
Disney Grad
