<p>Book Addict just got accepted for “Teach for America” (only 10% got accepted), and has been assigned to Tulsa OK where the community is welcoming them with open arms. Salary $33K, health insurance, $2.5 K bonus, summer training and teaching summer school this summer in Arizona first, Oklahoma teaching credential at end of the two years, discounted apartments, lower cost of living in Oklahoma than in S Cali – sounds awesome. </p>
<p>She is still waiting to hear from the Fulbright scholarship and whether she is chosen to teach in Korea for a year --may not know until April/May !! (in which case, TFA is deferred until 2011. . .and not sure if she still would be assigned to Tulsa after the deferrment).</p>
<p>WildChild has an excellent job offer from a large, prominent company in a fun city. I expect that he will accept it. It’s not his dream salary (which should be about $100K), but he knows how hard a job like this is to get.</p>
<p>Congratulations to Mom of Fours’s D and WildChild! S2 (graduated 2009) had his internship turn into a paid job. Lowest rung of the ladder in a totally unrelated field, but he loves it. Salary is nothing to write home about, literally, because he has to live here because of it :), but he’s exploring a business he might really enjoy. In this market, we are thrilled.</p>
<p>MOWC, thanks. It has been incredibly hard for the Class of 2009, as even many companies who are recruiting in-campus recruiting only want to speak to the Class of 2010. They have, in some cases, become the “lost class.” My S considers himself extremely lucky to have landed a full-time job, with benefits, regardless of the pay scale. Living at home, well it has its moments, but since we went through our struggles in HS (not to the extent you did ), it’s actually been nice having him here. He though, after 6 months, is chomping at the bit to move into the City. He has a couple of friends who have just now landed jobs, so that may be a real possibility within the next few months.</p>
<p>Parent of another senior here. My D finishes school next month, and then will go back to graduate with her class in May. No definite plan for the time in between. May move back home. Or not. Law school, maybe, but not right away… Hmmm.</p>
<p>What’s nice for daughter, book addict, is that that cost of living is SO MUCH lower in Tulsa than for s Cali. $33k there is probably $65k here since in tulsa we are told you can share a 2 bedroom apt for $350 and here its at least $650.</p>
<p>Also instead of paying that 5th year of college where you student teach and do the classes to earn your teaching credential, as part of TFA, she gets paid a salary and earns her credential at the end of 2 years. . .but that comes with 80 work weeks too as she will carry a full time teaching job and going though training and classes in her “spare” time in Tulsa. We’re not sure if it will take any more classes to turn an OK credential to a CA credential though.</p>
<p>We are Blessed – to see where your college child ends up when they graduate from college is a blessing. </p>
<p>Still have 3 more to go. . .D2 is at UCLA, D3 is applying this fall to 12 colleges, S1 is a sophomore in high school. Now mostly focused on D3 and hoping good merit news will arrive in the spring.</p>
<p>Have A Blessed Thanksgiving to one and all. I do enjoy hearing where our high school Class of 2006 ends up as the college class of 2010.</p>
<p>D1 graduates in May and has accepted a job offer. She is a marketing and sports management major and was offered her position after the sports organization heard about her from her various internships. Networking through the sports field was what landed her the job! She will be starting with part time consulting work until she graduates and then be brought on full time. We are all very excited!</p>
<p>Congrats mom of four on book addict’s tfa offer. My oldest, a college senior at our state’s flagship public, also got accepted last month into Teach For America and will be teaching in Colorado! Like book addict, she will first attend the summer institute in Phoenix. The tfa application is very competitive and we are thrilled for her. One of her classmates accepted a tfa offer to teach high school in Tulsa.</p>
<p>Just found this thread. Thanks for it. Begin feeling like a dinosauer with all of the HS parents’ questions and concerns. Miss all the old familiar poster names whose kids moved on by now.</p>
<p>Son is in his final year of being a senior- also could have graduated last spring after 3 years, but 4 years and being 20 this fall gives him better grad school preparation, et al. He breezed through the computer GRE last June but the pencil and paper Math subject GRE is the ouch factor, a very difficult test I have heard- rarely scores above 900 of 990 possible, many excellent students don’t answer several questions… and there is tough competition from abroad. I also saw the word procrastination- those grad school app deadlines are looming and no signs of credit card use for fees. He has a couple of grad level math courses this and next semester along with other courses so I know his interest and ability are there. The big question is WHERE can he get in. Nerve wracking, and long distance nagging via emails, plus numerous links from his dad, is the most we can do. I’m known as the interfering mom, but H has been doing plenty of online researching and has even come up with options for son if he needs them next spring. </p>
<p>In six more months so much will be decided. H retires and S graduates next May. Will relocate when the house sells, who knows when given our area’s perennially slow market. So many changes. Noticed the adult (versus child in the past) separation from parents (and the converse) during this Thanksgiving break more than in the past- then he reverted to some childish behaviors. We are going our separate ways from him, have adjusted to an empty nest and we get to move on in our lives, not just our child getting to.</p>
<p>Me! I was actually a CC poster back in the day under a different name… Not particularly thrilled to be a senior, actually. I’m hoping once my grad apps are done (and if I get in anywhere!) I’ll feel better.</p>
<p>That said, I was REALLY unsure of my school to begin with but have ended up loving it–it’s taken me places I never could have imagined back when I picked it–both for better and worse (but, so far, mostly for better <em>cross-fingers</em>). :)</p>
<p>I hate graduating in this economy, though. :(</p>
<p>My son loved most of his 4 years at school and seemed melancholy when asked about graduating at Thanksgiving. He is finishing some grad applicaitons (school psych) and lessened them over the last month. He will have almost full stafford loans at graduation, not overwhelming but not debt free either and he didn’t want to add a lot more. If a masters program would have cost him a large amount, with minimal funding, it is off the list. If he has to take a year off, if he doesn’t get in anywhere, he will work and concentrate on improving his applications, but hopefully he will get started next Fall.
I’m glad he enjoyed his 4 years so much, although transitions can be hard, and that he is sensible enough to know, dreams can be costly and is trying to keep things manageable.</p>
<p>Our senior is sooo ready to be done with school. I would say on a scale of 1-10, college has been about a 5 experience and is around a 1 satisfaction level at the moment. He loves his part-time engineering consulting job and is super excited about moving on to the next step in life. His lack of interest in classes is a little worrisome, but he assures us he will graduate. </p>
<p>He expects to know whether his current job turns into an offer in January, but sounds optimistic about his future regardless of what happens. He won’t have any debt and says he can support himself waiting tables or tending bar, if necessary to tide him over until he finds the right position. He wants to live and work overseas, so the work permit issues may be a challenge but he has done his research on it and is confident about making it work one way or another.</p>
<p>Analyst, my son too is sooo ready to be done with school. I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one whose kid is done with school! I’m just hoping he’ll be able to push himself to get through - honestly, I think if someone were to offer him a good paying job tomorrow, he’d take it - though I keep telling him he need to finish up his degree!</p>
<p>DS is finishing the traditional 4 years next spring with presumably a decent GPA but over Thanksgiving break said that he just wants to get to the next stage of his life. He’s had a lot of ups and downs in college; academically college has been as expected but he hasn’t really found the other kinds of new and exciting experiences we all hoped for. </p>
<p>No job offers yet but after a phone interview he has been invited to fly out to interview with a highly regarded company in his field. That’s promising, right? He hasn’t been very aggresive and has gotten “no thanks” emails from a couple of tippy top companies. Methinks there will be some hot and heavy networking required over the winter break…</p>
), it’s actually been nice having him here. He though, after 6 months, is chomping at the bit to move into the City. He has a couple of friends who have just now landed jobs, so that may be a real possibility within the next few months.</p>