Congrats, @skieurope! We wish you every good thing. Thank you for your years of wisdom and dedication here. Are you leaving CC as well? I hope not, but I’m sure your talents are needed elsewhere. Wherever you land, that company or endeavor is sure lucky to have you. Onward and upward!
I’m heading back home for some R&R before returning to the US and starting the next chapter. I’m not planning on leaving CC, although my involvement may likely decrease. Thanks for the kind words.
Congratulations, @skieurope !! I hope you had a good enough time in college that you feel a little heavy-hearted as you leave but excited enough about what’s next that the heavy-heartedness is only fleeting.
Congratulations @skieurope !!!
Congrats @skieurope!
Congratulation, @skieurope! Best wishes on your new chapter.
Congrats @skieurope enjoy the summer and the horizon
Congratulations.
@skieurope congrats! on a side note, not to be nosy or anything, just curious, where did you go?
@ImWaisian I thought i read somewhere during extensive summer boredom related thread reading that he/she went to Andover! But I could be way off lol!
@cmbyn02 I think I do remember that being mentioned, but I was talking about college haha
@ImWaisian oops! It was mentioned somewhere that the college was in Mass so probs either Harvard or Mit
@cmbyn02 That’s what I was guessing but never hurts to be sure…
Belated congratulations, @skieurope!
So… how is everyone’s transition to college going? DC is settling in but not yet settled. The first few days were a bit rough - DC was not homesick but BS sick. In some ways I think the transition can be harder for BS kids because the comparisons are inevitable. But DC’s roommate is great and DC is starting to make friends. Classes are good, but hard and DC is Starting to explore clubs.
Our daughter doesn’t move in till
September 10th as her school uses a trimester system. She is on a 5 day hiking trip for incoming freshman currently where they have no cell phone access. I can’t wait to hear how it went when we pick her up Monday.
DS is well settled. His roommate is his BS friend, and they have a large double room (larger than the one at BS) with A/C (a window unit but better than a window fan!) so they are happy. He complained about long lunch lines, but he will get used to it or adjust his schedule. Now that he is in a city not in the woods (the forest of Narnia as he compared once), he can walk to stores and eateries.
Our daughter is at Colorado College. Her room has a view of Pike’s Peak. Not bad. Just bought her a season ski pass as prices go up tomorrow. CC is relaxed, but challenging. She has had almost daily writing assignments.
Freshmen take 5 day orientation trips. She was in a group of 10 doing trail maintenance at a state park. She’d done this before with AMC so all went well.
Thought I would check in and see how everyone’s kiddos are doing. Our daughter has had a bumpy start to the year, but things seem to have leveled out some. The bumps were caused by being extremely homesick for her BS, breaking up and getting back together with her boyfriend -he attends a different college out of state, not being selected for 3 clubs she tried out for (1 she had competed in at BS), being overwhelmed by the crazy drinking culture as it permeates every social activity and she is a big non drinker. Deciding to drop a foreign language class that she had thought she would major in and instead decided to start taking a new language and having to make up 2 weeks of assignments, feeling completely tuned out in lecture style classes after 4 years of Harkness and generally feeling like the culture is a mismatch.
The good news is she has made some close friends, loves her professors, is involved in a few EC, got a part time job, has a good dorm situation and the food is great. She is seriously considering transferring to another college next year as the drinking culture seems to be very entrenched- and this is before 23’s are allowed to attend Greek parties/rush. While we knew the school had a reputation for being a party school- we felt like it might still have enough intellectual rigor that she would find like minded peers that aren’t interested in getting wasted multiple nights a week which hasn’t proven to be true. Hopefully your kids are finding the transition a little easier then our girl.
@Vegas1 So sorry to hear the transition has been bumpy. My understanding is that there is special-interest housing for kids who aren’t into drinking? Might be worth looking into? Fingers crossed that things get better for her … there or elsewhere…