Parents of the Class of 2019

[mom2rtk]

No fall break here at all. Thanksgiving is it. So I'm glad she's close enough to occasionally make it home on a regular weekend. I think our son (now living in the same town) is bringing her home in a couple weeks for her birthday. I'm really looking forward to it.

 

[MerissaAndMomLoveDis]

We leave for the airport at 4:00am tomorrow morning to fly to California for dorm move-in on Wednesday. I'm actually more excited than sad--it seems like we've been waiting forever and it's finally almost here!! We have been doing a flurry of the packing-Tetris game to meet the suitcase weight limits the last two days, but we are mostly ready. My D19 made a BBB pack and hold order, a Target pick up order, and late last night, a last minute Walmart pick up order for some hair products she could not find at Target. I am hoping picking up everything is smooth and easy tomorrow. Stanford, here she comes!!!

 

[mom2rtk]

We leave for the airport at 4:00am tomorrow morning to fly to California for dorm move-in on Wednesday. I'm actually more excited than sad--it seems like we've been waiting forever and it's finally almost here!! We have been doing a flurry of the packing-Tetris game to meet the suitcase weight limits the last two days, but we are mostly ready. My D19 made a BBB pack and hold order, a Target pick up order, and late last night, a last minute Walmart pick up order for some hair products she could not find at Target. I am hoping picking up everything is smooth and easy tomorrow. Stanford, here she comes!!!

Best of luck to you and your daughter on your journey tomorrow!

 

[bjscheel]

Our Parents Weekend is the end of this month. We’ll just be going on Sunday to watch her theatre play. It’s the only day with a matinee and we’re bringing Grandma so that works better than a night performance. Hopefully my sister and nephew will be able to go Saturday night to watch her.

No fall break. They get the Friday of their Homecoming weekend off.

 

[ColoradoDisneyFreaks]

We leave for the airport at 4:00am tomorrow morning to fly to California for dorm move-in on Wednesday. I'm actually more excited than sad--it seems like we've been waiting forever and it's finally almost here!! We have been doing a flurry of the packing-Tetris game to meet the suitcase weight limits the last two days, but we are mostly ready. My D19 made a BBB pack and hold order, a Target pick up order, and late last night, a last minute Walmart pick up order for some hair products she could not find at Target. I am hoping picking up everything is smooth and easy tomorrow. Stanford, here she comes!!!

Good luck! We didn't even have the pick-up orders, DD couldn't find anything that she really liked so we ended up shopping. Yours will go much faster, and if she forgets anything, there's always Amazon!

 

[Eureka]

Sorry about the lost wallet. Hope that everything worked out.

Does anyone else’s student not like talking on the phone? Even when she was home she didn’t do it either. Thank goodness for texting.

DD seems to be settling in nicely going out to eat and dining halls with friends. She was home 2 weekends ago because she was going somewhere with her boyfriend we hardly saw her but did have a good breakfast one morning.

My kids have never been phone talkers, but DS will talk to us now that he is not talking to us in person. Most of the texts we've had back and forth don't tell us much, so I am glad he'll talk on the phone with us.

 

[Colleen27]

No fall break here either and DD isn't coming home for Thanksgiving because they only have Thurs/Fri which is just too short a trip to justify the crazy-high holiday airfare, so we won't see her until the semester is over and she comes home for Christmas. Fortunately she is not at all homesick!

She's already making a list of summer programs she plans to apply to, with Glacier NP at the top of the list, and has another list going of programs that are upperclassmen-only for future summers. She did promise that she'll leave at least one summer free for us to go to Japan, so I guess I see what I have to do to get a bit of her time! But we did decide that it won't be next summer because of the Olympics - DD11 isn't a strong enough student to miss school to go before, and going after would run into the start of DD18's school year - so I'm not surprised she's looking at opportunities to do something exciting instead. She's also threw her name in for her dorm's leadership council, which an upperclassman friend said is a good resume-builder if she's interested in being an RA next year (and she is). I think she said she'll know by the end of the week if she got it.

 

[mjkacmom]

A bunch of dd’s friends are headed to Rutgers on Saturday for a football game and to stay over, and she couldn’t find a way there, so I booked her on the van that goes from UD to a train station 20 minutes from here, and she can take a train from there to a station 5 minutes from here (gets in at 6:30 tomorrow, height of NYC commuter traffic). She will drive to Rutgers Saturday, and drive her friends back to town Sunday so they can get back to their colleges, and take the van back to Delaware Sunday night. She loves her new friends but is missing her old ones.

 

[tink1970]

I've called DD twice and she sounds like she's doing okay.

I was able to pin her down for her flight home for Christmas although she tried to convince me that flying out on Sat was better since the train into Boston is only $5 on weekends. Since her dorm closes on Weds, I didn't need to do the math to figure out weekday train fare << 3 nights in a hotel. She is so stingy with "her" money but feels free to spend mine, lol.

Her birthday is the Weds before Thanksgiving and she's planning on training over to NYC to spend with a friend of hers for the long weekend. I'm not nagging her but she should buy those tickets asap. She also hasn't met with the registrar to get her year's worth of credit via IB/AP but again, that's on her.

It sounds like Model UN and frisbee are her sources of extracurricular activities and thankfully she and her roommate get along well. I'll be in London for her Parents Weekend but her father is flying up-and of course she has a MUN conference in Boston which conflicts, so I don't feel too guilty about missing Parents Weekend now.
So, it will be 3 months until I see her and sometimes that seems like a long time. But as long as she's happy, I'm happy.

Glad to hear everyone is settling in at their respective schools

 

[ColoradoDisneyFreaks]

We leave for the airport at 4:00am tomorrow morning to fly to California for dorm move-in on Wednesday. I'm actually more excited than sad--it seems like we've been waiting forever and it's finally almost here!! We have been doing a flurry of the packing-Tetris game to meet the suitcase weight limits the last two days, but we are mostly ready. My D19 made a BBB pack and hold order, a Target pick up order, and late last night, a last minute Walmart pick up order for some hair products she could not find at Target. I am hoping picking up everything is smooth and easy tomorrow. Stanford, here she comes!!!

How did it go? Hopefully everything went smoothly!

I talked to DD last night, and she's doing well. Her underwater hockey club is going to do a tournament in November in Montreal, so we need to take her passport to her in October when we see her. I'm also going to get her a lockable safe, I skipped it when we were moving in with all of the other expenses, but with her passport there too, I'd just feel better if she had one. Thankfully in their suite each bedroom door is lockable, as well as the suite door. They're different keys, and the girls have agreed that everyone's bedroom door should be closed if anyone else is in the suite and there's no one in the bedroom.

 

[soccerdad72]

Sounds like our son is coming home for his fall break in October. We talked to him Sunday night and he said he was going to ask my parents if they could come up the Friday before break. He figured he would show them around campus, maybe get dinner in Rochester, then have them bring him home with them. They're only a 2 hour drive from us, so it will save us 4 hours driving. He mentioned that his roommate was also going home and was planning on taking Amtrak back, so I think he was going to look into that as well.

 

[laughinplace199]

We are going to see DS this weekend for family weekend. It's about 6 hr drive, so we will leave at the crack of dawn Saturday and come back Sunday evening. I can't wait to see him!

 

[bjscheel]

Yesterday was our trip to see the theatre production! We filled our SUV with family and friends. It was a long day but fun. The show was at 2pm and then she had to take down set so our group played cards for 1.5 hours and then went to supper with her and some of her theatre friends. I'm so happy she got to be involved in this right away. Hopefully she will handle all the newfound free time okay but now she's made all these friends through it so they can hang out still, just not at rehearsal.

She's been in a little bit of a dilemma because some of her friends are doing Speech & Theatre Education and she thinks she wants to ADD this to her other major plans. It's quite impossible (would take at least 6 years to fit it in, I checked the catalog) and unnecessary (she just wants to coach speech & drama as a side job and our state does not require the coach to have a teaching degree- I got official word from the state association and checked current job listings). Having a theatre BA as her second major or even a minor plus all the experience she's getting will be fantastic for getting a coach gig. Just sent her all the information I gathered so she can calm down about it. She gets wound up because another freshman tells her she can and should do all this and then Mom does the actual research!

On the bad news side, her BF injured his knee in his senior Homecoming football game Friday and may be out for the season. His big dream was to play in college so he's thinking that's all over because of this. I don't really know how it works, but I think after official diagnosis he should call the coaches and see before despairing. It's a bummer anyway.

 

[mjkacmom]

Dd decided crew is a no, she will stick to club running. She went to her first fraternity formal in Philadelphia last weekend, good thing she thought to pack a cute dress and heels. She thinks she broke up with her boyfriend but apparently he isn’t getting it, still wants to visit during his fall break. Actually her other ex wants to visit too (he’s at Fordham so could easily take a train). No need for a boyfriend at college! She’s planning on moving off campus next semester with 5 friends, there are a lot of options available within walking distance of campus. Even with rent 700 - 800 a month each, she will still save money not needing the dining plan.

 

[design_mom]

Wow! Moving off campus already!? It's nice that she has that option. All the schools we toured seemed to have a 2-year on-campus residency requirement (with a few "exceptions" for people who were non-traditional students, or whose parent/legal guardian lived within a certain distance of the school.)

We went to campus yesterday to take DS to lunch. His 19th birthday was Saturday. We did not go on Saturday because it was homecoming weekend at the high school and my daughter wanted to go to the dance. It worked out though. One of DS's new friends' families visited on Saturday and provided a tailgate before the home football game. DS is not a football fan, but he said it was fun. I'm glad he had fun plans on his birthday.

We had a nice visit. We took his presents and sat in the "lounge" of his dorm. I think he would have rather done it in his room, but his roommate was studying and watching a football game, so we didn't want to disturb him... and it's a VERY small room anyway (hardly enough room for 2, let alone 5). Then he showed us around campus a bit... then we went to lunch. He wanted a "good burger" and I think we found some. But the highlight of the meal was the bavarian pretzel appetizer. ;-)

 

[TB'sWidow]

Just got back last night from visiting Dd for the fall festival at Hofstra over the weekend. It was great to see her an she seems to have settled in quite well she has a job which has some strange times. We were able to meet her core group of friends who all seem great I did notice that she an one boy seem to have an unspoken crush so we’ll see how this develops. Dd is going to come home next weekend as their fall break has two days after an her birthday is Saturday.

 

[mom2rtk]

Wow! Moving off campus already!? It's nice that she has that option. All the schools we toured seemed to have a 2-year on-campus residency requirement (with a few "exceptions" for people who were non-traditional students, or whose parent/legal guardian lived within a certain distance of the school.)

We went to campus yesterday to take DS to lunch. His 19th birthday was Saturday. We did not go on Saturday because it was homecoming weekend at the high school and my daughter wanted to go to the dance. It worked out though. One of DS's new friends' families visited on Saturday and provided a tailgate before the home football game. DS is not a football fan, but he said it was fun. I'm glad he had fun plans on his birthday.

We had a nice visit. We took his presents and sat in the "lounge" of his dorm. I think he would have rather done it in his room, but his roommate was studying and watching a football game, so we didn't want to disturb him... and it's a VERY small room anyway (hardly enough room for 2, let alone 5). Then he showed us around campus a bit... then we went to lunch. He wanted a "good burger" and I think we found some. But the highlight of the meal was the bavarian pretzel appetizer. ;-)

Your DS and my daughter share a birthday! Happy birthday to him! I'm glad you got to visit.

Our son brought our DD home late Friday and I drove her back in the wee hours this morning. It was a really nice weekend. I told her I'd love to visit in October to see the campus when the leaves change. The campus is actually designated as a botanical garden and I'm dying to see it all decked out in fall color.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Just got back yesterday from Parents' Weekend - had a great time and DS seems happy.

We took him out for lots of "real" food, met some of his friends, and had a nice dinner Saturday with one friend and his parents. - We really got along well with them, and I hope we see them again.

Southern Maine is gorgeous this time of year! And we found out DS joined the outing club!! (I was worried he wouldn't get involved, so I was particularly glad about that.) Oh, and taking the vacuum was a big hit - all his friends borrowed it.

 

[laughinplace199]

We went to see DS this past weekend and it was great! He seems to be settling in very well - joined some groups and clubs and is keeping himself busy. He's also made some really nice friends. It was nice to see him in person and really see that he's in a good place. He'll be home in 2 weeks for fall break!

 

[mjkacmom]

They are making the housing decision tonight, and then we have to sign the lease. Seems so early, but apparently not. Her bff of 18 years (met when they were 6 months old) is visiting her this weekend from Marist, and then she is coming home for fall break next Thursday night (fall break means just no classes that Friday). She has a lab from 5 - 7, but I think found a ride, DS21’s break is this weekend, bummer.