<p>As some of you are lucky enough to be spending the week-end with your Ds, discovering or rediscovering Northampton, I am proud to announce that my D has just received her first ever A! Just writing this, I can't help smiling as I know that most CCers are A addicts, but in D's case, I wasn't expecting this before next semester unless it was in a French course, which it isn't. And it has made her feel so good that she doesn't mind too much that her family is so far away. Well, anyway, just wanted to share the good news with all my supportive friends. I think she's adjusting well and I am very proud of her.</p>
<p>Aww...congratulations. It's probably the first of many.</p>
<p>I hope she enjoyed the performance last night...we did.</p>
<p>Congrats to her! Sometimes, it just takes a little adjustment to the new environment.</p>
<p>(TD, I'm still smarting from my D's decision to drop orchestra this year.)</p>
<p>MWFN: why? Was it too much work? D missed the auditions as she arrived late and was told that they had too many flautists anyway. I was very disappointed...</p>
<p>Well, D is taking three science courses this semester, two of them with labs. With heavy days of labs/classes on Tuesday AND Wednesday, she didn't think she could get her work done if she attended the three hour practices Tuesday nights. </p>
<p>She did enjoy the orchestra last year. Great group of women. Of course, if her closest friends had also been in the orchestra, she would have gone for it anyway.</p>
<p>LiT, I'm sorry your D's orchestra was a casualty of the delayed arrival. Flute is one of the more popular instruments, true...did she also investigate Wind Ensemble? For instance, a French horn player in Wind Ensemble isn't in the Orchestra and vice-versa.</p>
<p>MWFN, yeah, things like orchestra may not be for credit but they swallow gobs of time anyway. For the week before Parents Weekend, D counted a total of four hours where she wasn't in class, studying, sleeping, eating or at an EC. I learned an interesting thing: she prefers to alternate 4 and 8 hours of sleep instead of 6 and 6, finds it more efficient. Urrrm.</p>