<p>At the end of this month, my husband, son and I will be flying across the country to participate in three days of ceremonies and graduation activities for my first born. I can't quite believe it's over. These four years went much sooo much faster than the previous four. </p>
<p>I know this is going to be a zoo; an exhausting, sometimes nerve-racking experience- but I'm very excited. The significance of this event is just beginning to sink in. This is our "challenging" kid, the one who always kept us on our toes-- the one we could never count on doing the obvious thing, the easy thing, the expected thing.
And she's graduating, as "expected! "(as long as she gets that last paper in!)</p>
<p>Any other CC parents with '07 college grads? Horray, I say! :)</p>
<p>Wonderful D is graduating from Rice this coming Saturday. H, WildChild and I will fly to Houston Friday morning. We will probably swelter in the Houston heat/humidity, but I will be SO proud. She has had a great 4 years and has thrived academically, musically, spiritually and socially. The best part of the whole thing is that she is STAYING in her apartment so we don't have to move her! She landed a great job and will be off our payroll- plans to work a year before starting Episcopal Seminary. An engagement announcement is imminent. I can't believe this part of her life is over. Oh well- since WildChild will be on our payroll and in school forever, I have lots more years to enjoy this college stuff!</p>
<p>My D's class day is next Tuesday and the big graduation is Wednesday. She will still be studying for the MCAT until June and then she can relax for a bit. I can't believe how much she has accomplished in four years and am so proud of her. </p>
<p>dmd77,
Ditto on the fingers crossed part.....the parents are often the last to know. :eek:</p>
<p>Best of luck to all of the 2007 grads....high school and college.</p>
<p>Oldest S. graduates in 10 days and is so sad to be leaving his wonderful school, tremendous friends, and a stimulating academic environment. Interestingly, these are the same things he "hated" first semester freshman year! </p>
<p>Congrats and best wishes to all the graduates!</p>
<p>Thumpson is supposed to graduate on May 20th. We hope this will be happening. So far we haven't heard anything to the contrary, but you never know!! We will go for the College of Fine Arts graduation only. We're very proud of him, and all that he has done.</p>
<p>I'm glad somebody started an "I'm so proud because my kid is finally graduating" thread, because I didn't want to come across as that bragging parent bragging about her kid again. Alas, I am and it embarrases my kids to no end.</p>
<p>My son, also first born, is also graduating from Rice this weekend! The time has flown -- seem like just yesterday I was dropping him off for O-Week!
We have a little more coordinating to do to get from college to first job -- he landed an excellent job in Seattle.</p>
<p>DD, who just finished her freshman year at Lehigh, of course, wants his room as soon as he moves out.</p>
<p>My daughter is graduating on June 3rd with honors as far as I know! We've got our plane tickets, hotel reservations and guess I have to line up the car rental. A friend told me four years ago how fast the college years would go and I could not imagine it, but she was right. Off went my social, easy going high school grad and now I've got this smart, motivated, politically aware young woman.</p>
<p>My S#1 is also graduating on June 3rd. We will travel down to the area and wait for him to get back from Atlantic City that day! (A Senior Week special trip.) Fabulous planned festive dinner Friday night at Pat's King of Steaks in Philly. ;) Lots of formal activities on campus on Saturday, with outdoor graduation on Sunday morning. Traveling with an "entourage" of 10 spanning 3 generations. And yet it literally seems like yesterday where my H and I were sitting in the info session for the college realizing that they were describing our child in their presentation. Nice to know that our gut instinct back in 2002 was "dead on" and S had an intellectually stimulating and socially satisfying experience.</p>
<p>The middle child, our only D, will graduate college over Memorial Day weekend.
She makes me proud b/c she was able, for 4 years, to juggle the academics, pursue creative activities, make friends, fall in love, keep us in the loop. She is passionate about the major she chose. She is an Educated Woman and that's a gift for life.</p>
<p>We'll drive to her college near Cleveland, which is the alma mater of my H and myself, so we're staying in dorms, just to be sentimental. Youngest S will come along, and perhaps my Mom. If she can't walk well, the college rents wheelchairs.</p>
<p>Immediately after, D will join the circus. I kid you not. Some people from her college arranged a multi-city tour of a theatrical circus. It's been a college EC, but somebody had the skills to put it together as a one-month tour. Just a fun month on stilts, then on to the next challenges.</p>
<p>For 4 years, she seized every moment, embraced her opportunities, and now is a scholar for the rest of her life. I"M SO PROUD OF HER I COULD CRY (haven't yet, surely will)</p>
<p>My daughter will graduate over Memorial Day weekend as well with some sort of honors. She has taken advantage of much her college has to offer, from volunteer work to research to a club sport and a bit of sorority participation. She has a serious boyfriend in her graduating class but, surprisingly, not many close girlfriends. Anyhow, she has loved her four years but is eager to start the rest of her life with a first job in Boston.</p>
<p>Our son will graduate June 9th. We fly to Chicago (all 8 of us, including 4 grandparents) for a busy weekend of celebrating. It's hard to believe that 4 years have gone by, but he's had an incredible experience academically and otherwise. But we won't miss the school for long...D starts there in September!</p>
<p>Daughter graduates this coming weekend, and son the following Sunday. I honestly didn' expect either of them to be done this year, as daughter was going to take an additional associates degree in a related field, but decided to do that close to home, and son decided to drop one of his two degrees and graduate im May instead of this coming December. I'm just glad that the ceremonies are not on the same day. Congrats to all.</p>
<p>Alas, Dragongirl1 will graduate next month without us - it's the same day as Dragongirl2's high school graduation. I feel so torn, but the huge U graduation isn't nearly as "family required" as the high school one. Heck, half the kids probably aren't even showing up. Various other relatives will stand in for us, so she won't be alone. I'll just miss the photo-ops and tears! I never imagined this would happen at the same time, but it's been a long and bumpy road for dg1, and we're thrilled and proud. The consolation is that she plans at least one more degree in the immediate future. Plus I'll be there next week for her research presentation, then fly home on the red-eye for dg2's prom photo-op, but miss her big awards banquet the night before.
Anybody else missing one kid's moment for the other's?</p>
<p>Certainly not as big a conflict as the above poster's, but we will be missing D's senior class play (all the non-drama kids, directed by the drama kids!) for her brother's college graduation. She, in fact, will probably be flying in for the day, returning in time for that evening's show...An extravagance we know, but it's an easy flight with low cost carriers and she really wants to be there for him. And then back for the show!</p>
<p>We will be flying back to UMCP next Friday for D number 1's graduation. She hurried things up and is graduating after only 2 1/2 years. Part of me would have liked to have had 4 years to prepare for this. Watching Gilmore Girls last night got me started on the tears. Anyway with luck D #2 will arrive shortly after my mother and I followed by darling H. for all the festivities. My daughter has a great job lined up in the Washington DC area but still needs to find a place to live. Oh well things always seem to work out for her. She managed to pick up a fiance on the East Coast too. I can hope that someday they may come West. :)</p>
<p>Like paying3, our middle and only daughter graduated Sat. We spent the weekend clearing out her townhouse and moving her to another college town to continue her education. She was very sad to be leaving her school and friends (most have another semester), but is excited to be living in a larger city and is going from a school of about 1200 to a school of approx. 20,000. She has started looking for a summer job and one that she could continue part-time during the school year. I feel that maybe we should have cut the purse strings more at this point, but with the reduction in cost between the private school to the instate school now, it will most definitely be less painful.</p>
<p>My son is graduating from college a week from Sunday. We'll be driving up the day before (it's under an hour and a half; no biggie) and staying in a hotel. He's all done with work already and just looking forward to a week when all he has to do is -- nothing! </p>
<p>He's having some anxieties about the next step -- there is a plan in place, but he's nervous about moving to a new city, starting a job, not having enough $$ to live comfortably, taking the GREs for grad school. </p>
<p>I remember this time of life, way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth -- it was very very hard for me. I know he'll be fine; he just needs to get through it all.</p>
<p>Middle child - our only boy - graduates next Saturday from G-town. How did four years go by so quickly? We are looking forward to a few days of fun (including the senior ball at Union Station next Friday night) and then he has a couple of weeks off before he starts a real job.</p>