<p>There are some parent meetings on Saturday, I believe, but the orientations activities for students begin by Saturday evening or Sunday morning. The parents are really supposed to be gone by then.</p>
<p>The last thing official thing that the parents are invited to is the meeting with your child’s advisor and that professor’s other 4 or so advisees and their parents. After that, it’s time to say goodbye and hit the road. Be sure to bring plenty of Kleenex™ for the ride home.</p>
<p>Make sure all you new parents make reservations if possible to visit during Family Weekend early in the Fall. It seemed to make things a little easier for all during that first goodbye to know when we would be visiting. If you are further away, don’t worry, you can miss it. I think it means more to the parents than the kids, who by that time are well adjusted. Also, the more local families took new friends to lunch, dinner, or a program to make things easier for those with families farther away. Just a thought on looking ahead to the first official visiting weekend. Again, you’ll get information on it over the summer but you might want to book a room if you are thinking of attending.</p>