<p>What MomofWildChild said, substituting “my daughter.”</p>
<p>My son “could” graduate this year (after 3 years), but he wants (and I want him) to stay for 4th year…he’ll then have 2 minors. He was young for his grade to begin with, so I’m really glad that he wants to stay for the 4th year. :)</p>
<p>I saw on another thread that NorthMinnesota’s D1 had applied for a job, which made me think of this thread. One of my walking buddies says her son is on his call-back interviews (i.e. passed the first round and is being flown out for round two), which makes me very jealous, although I am trying to express nothing but happiness for her. My son on the other hand sent us lots of pictures of the celebrations on the beach when Rio got the Olympic bid and seems to always have something more urgent to do than actually apply for jobs. He is a terrible procrastinator and the fact that I am not there to nag in person like I was during the college application process makes me nervous.</p>
<p>One more here – my younger child - D - is a senior and I am delighted that there are no more FAFSA’s to complete and I can probably squeeze that one last payment for spring semester out without more borrowing. It’s nice to be out from under the pressure of worrying about how this year’s income will impact next year’s award, too.</p>
<p>My older kid - S – graduated a year ago (5 years difference in age, but he took the long way round — and he is very well established in a great job – so I definitely consider him launched. He was lucky to come out of school when there still were jobs – though the fact that he was a poli sci major graduating in an election year was also a plus. </p>
<p>I have no idea what my daughter’s post-grad plans are-- I tend not to focus too much about that because she does enough worrying & stressing for the both of us. I’m assuming she’ll figure something out. She has already traveled widely, is very independent-minded and has an interest in international affairs – so Peace Corps is definitely a possibility for her as well.</p>
<p>Exactly! I tried to load up on all the nagging before he left to go back to school. It seems
like my nagging has worn off and son is back to having his head in the sand about what to do after graduation. My three sons are so different, middle one just started his freshman year, already has an amazing part time job–$45 per hour teaching chess to 3 students per week and planning to add enough to stay in NYC next summer. He is looking for “the right research project” to work on also. He’s always way ahead of the game. Oldest son is in the here and now. I remember the nagging that I had to do to get oldest son to finish application essays a week before they were due, youngest son had them finished two weeks after the applications were available. Oldest son is in Electrical Engineering, which should be a good thing, but I’m still afraid we will be moving him back into his bedroom at home after graduation, and then he’s going to find out what NAGGING IS!</p>
<p>S will graduate this year with a BA and a BS (with a double major) in 4 years. He’s worked very hard but was lucky to start with the maximum amount of credits from HS. That being said he is now looking at grad school - wants to do a double grad major also JD and MBA. Limits the choices for places to pick. He’s taken the LSATs 2 times and will be taking the GMATs this week. He has a good GPA so hopefully he’ll get into one of his 2 top picks.</p>
<p>S1 graduated in May. Get ready folks…it flies by.</p>
<p>Ah yes…NO MORE FAFSA!!! Woohoo…and I can also procrastinate filing my taxes until April 15th!! And I’ll feel like I’ve won the lottery because I will no longer have monthly college payments (have had them since May 2003). Next up…new kitchen counters.</p>
<p>Senior son supposedly graduating in may with BS in physics and BS electrical engineering (both from his honors college) Somehow in the next 7 months he will complete a senior thesis, a senior engineering project, apply and get into grad school all while taking a full load of classes. He has taken his GRE’s and will take physics GRE this sat. I am totaly out of the loop. Not sure how he will pull it off but he has managed to get to this point…so we will see. </p>
<p>Mostly, I now have an independent adult male son compared to the freshman boy that left my home 3 1/2 yrs ago. Miss the boy terribly and admire the man he has become…I really miss the boy.</p>
<p>My Senior D is working on her grad school applications, she will take the GRE in about 2
weeks. She is applying to 3 different types of programs as her interests keep evolving. She is working on a senior project which leads to her senior thesis next semester.</p>
<p>We are so close to having school paid off, I can almost taste it! Six payments left. Surprisingly, I always thought that she would be Peace Corps bound at this time, but she has not been interested at all.</p>
<p>Her boyfriend is looking for a job at this time and they want to end up in the same city, not sure how this is going to work.</p>
<p>New kitchen counters…<em>excited</em>… oh wait, my DS’s still a junior… 
DD graduated in May '08 and luckily took off to foreign parts, where the cost of living is much lower and jobs are more readily available. I would not want her to have to be looking for work here in this economic climate!</p>
<p>Two graduating this year. One took the MCAT and is planning a gap year before med school applications. Hopefully a job for the year (and health insurance) is somewhere in her future. The other took the GRE. Time will tell where that goes!</p>
<p>I’m impressed with all of the posters kids’ who are stressing about the job market. I don’t think employment reality has hit either of my kids yet.</p>
<p>I am so proud of my son (which is not something I usually report on these forums, even though he has many talents- some even admirable…). He has gotten access to some university job boards (through legit means) which attract recruiters from cities/companies that don’t tend to come to his northeastern college. He scored an interview already with a prominent company in the southwest. He’s really working this thing. We’ll see.</p>
<p>Son #1 will graduate in June with a dual degree. He is taking the GRE in two weeks and has a summer job lined up, but other than that, he doesn’t have any idea what’s next. </p>
<p><em>sigh</em>…we’ll be doing the FAFSA for the next five years</p>
<p>S will be graduating in June with 2 BAs ( PoliSci and Econ). He took LSATs recently, but wants to take a year(or two) off before starting law school. Plans include doing more research in PoliSci(last year was pretty successful in this regard), Teach for America after graduation(hopefully).</p>
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Heck, if you want, you can file for an extension and do your taxes in June! or October!</p>
<p>MOWC, congrats on the interview! That is exactly the kind of news I want to hear soon. S wants to remain in Rio ideally, but would be happy with almost any major city in South America. He does have to come back to the states to finish his last semester of college here. That will likely be a difficult adjustment and one that I imagine will make him cranky if he doesn’t have something lined up to go back to. I can best visualize him tending bar or waiting tables in some iffy Rio neighborhood and being blissfully happy. He likes to travel and socialize, so maybe sales would work but I wouldn’t say he is high on initiative and he definitely lacks any iota of a competitive impulse.</p>
<p>A college senior, a high school senior, and one in the middle…</p>
<p>I am old enough to have children who are old enough to have children.</p>
<p>(I guess that’s been true for a while, it’s just that mantra of “wait until you graduate from college to make major life decisions” feels very soon now)</p>
<p>Some of our kids will be getting married and having babies within the next few years, are we ready for that?</p>
<p>Another mom of a college senior…my daughter has taken her GREs and is working on grad school apps for Ph.D programs in cultural anthropology, as well as her honors thesis and producing a concert for the end of the year (in lieu of a recital). It makes me tired just thinking about it all…</p>
<p>The job search will begin in earnest during second quarter, since she knows grad school acceptance is never a sure bet. Her number one goal is to avoid moving back home; she knows she’d be welcome, but we all agree that our little farm town would be way too claustrophobic for her.</p>
<p>DS is a college senior with no definite plans (as far as I know…). He’ll have his degree in math and is trying to squeeze in a second major in computer science. I’ve told him that a fifth year would be ok if he doesn’t get the cs major done this year. He will be searching for a job but he’s said he may take the GRE and may consider grad school as well. He really enjoyed his internship this summer but as far as I know he didn’t receive a job offer, but I’m not surprised since the other interns were MBA students. </p>
<p>While my son doesn’t have any definite plans for what to do after graduation, his girlfriend is already planning on moving to where ever my son finds a job or goes to graduate school. </p>
<p>The past 3 years really flew by and I can’t quite believe my son is a college senior.</p>