<p>Any students or parents want to comment on spring break plans that the student has for next week?</p>
<p>My DS is driving with some of his frat brothers down to New Orleans, since Mardi Gras is during spring break. I am nervous and not happy that he’s going somewhere where there is so much drinking, but he’s 20 and I don’t have a lot of influence any more.</p>
<p>^^seems to be the thing to do when Spring break coincides with Mardi gras…he will certainly have alot of company; lots of kids are heading there from ALOT of schools…</p>
<p>my D is going to Costa-Rica with a group of friends in a " community service trip"…</p>
<p>D will be home, hunting for a summer job, since her employer for the past two summers, a day camp, is in bad straits and slashed summer staff, keeping the lesser paid high schoolers and discarding the higher paid college kids. Given the circumstances, spending scarce funds on a trip is the last thing on her mind now. Funny how you hear from two opposite sides of the universe here on CC depending on which board you read–there are the posters who are despondent over their financial aid packages, trying to figure out how many loans to take on, and hustling any jobs they can to make up the gaps, and then there are the ones who are debating which unpaid summer internship to take and where to party for spring break!</p>
<p>D will be attending the Czech Arts Symposium through the AU Dept of Performing Arts.</p>
<p>D is coming home to sleep! She has already found a paid internship for the summer, but still can’t afford to travel anywhere “fun.” At least she’s coming home to Texas so she can warm up.</p>
<p>Student here. Sticking around campus and working, and helping out with two green roof installations on campus. For an environmental science major, that’s a really incredible opportunity, even if it initially sounds kind of lame.</p>
<p>My son is driving the Mardi Gras because he doesn’t have the money to anything else. He has been looking for paid internships for this summer without any luck, so its a good thing that he thinks that the bank that he worked for will have work for him. (He says “I’m still an employee” - I hope he’s right.)</p>