<p>A nap??? Did you say a Nap???? Are you kidding? OMG this house is nuts right now! Of course, I believe she has taken your advice (thanks alot) and has been checking... oh...every so often!</p>
<p>YAY!!!!!! The wait is over, she's in! She just found out, and is jumping up and down. My house is shaking!</p>
<p>Congratulations :)</p>
<p>Thanks RLT. A load off the proverbial back, if you know what I mean! She's thrilled...no...more than thrilled about the decision. I love the admissions staff holding the banner at the front gate. Nice touch!</p>
<p>I love the admissions staff holding the banner at the front gate.}}</p>
<p>That's what I was telling you to print</p>
<p>Whoopteedoo!!!! Ta-Dah! Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah!</p>
<p>Our big news is that, after a long wait, my d. got into "the commune" - Hopkins House. She has many friends there, and wanted to take responsibility for her own food and stuff. (She was already cooking regularly with friends at Baldwin.) Anyhow, a very large double opened up, complete with a sun-porch and (we think) a view of the pond and mountains, and she jumped at the chance, met her new roommate, and is already moving her stuff. She actually liked her own house, but the idea of cooking with friends as part of a regular routine appealed to her immensely. </p>
<p>With any luck, she'll be all moved before we arrive for a visit in 10 days.</p>
<p>BJM, congratulations to your D. Told ya so. But it's so nice to have it official. </p>
<p>Now that she's in, let's look forward to sneaking her in on Admitted Students day. And if she has questions about profs or anything else, she should feel free to e-mail my D...she <em>is</em> a Smithie.</p>
<p>Oh...and congrats to you, one of the newest members of the long blue line (the official <em>school</em> color is white, the Smith <em>parent</em> color is <em>blue</em>, from the complexion after paying the tuition bill) of Smith Parents. I'll step back to let RLT officially kiss you on both cheeks.</p>
<p>Jyber: fresh fish!!! got ourselves a newbie!!!</p>
<p>Mini: congrats on your D's move...I know that was always the choice.</p>
<p>BJM, you should have the pleasure of going to the Parents Forum and adding your D's acceptance to the Master List of Acceptances tacked to the top of the forum.</p>
<p>{{I'll step back to let RLT officially kiss you on both cheeks.}}</p>
<p>LOL---Coward!!</p>
<p>I love France but for a wasp to do the kissy kissy thing is beyond my comfort level, even when visiting a Smith and obviously female friend in Versailles.</p>
<p>Bjm8, youll have to settle for a cigar and a pat on the back. Hmmm , am I confusing births with college acceptances ? The British have the perfect answer; no matter what the celebratory occasion, head to the pub. Well do that. I know of a great place in Amherst. See you there in August.</p>
<p>Sorry I haven't been on line for a couple of hours, took the family out to dinner to celebrate the good news. Needless to say, we all are ecstatic about our D becoming an official Smithie. Words cannot express our thanks to you folks for the kind words and well wishes they meant alot to all of us here in little RI. I can't wait for my D to meet your D's so they can make fun of us together. Now, TD...what did you mean by "fresh meat?"</p>
<p>They are sending us the acceptence letter in the mail along with some financial statement. I guess I can assume that STRIDE is out of the question. I assume we would have heard something about that by now if it was to happen. Either way, thank you again, and we are so looking forward to meeting you someday for a drink and dinner. As I said before, I owe you one! TD...tell me more about admitted students day?</p>
<p>"fresh meat" = new arrivals in P.O.W. camps, prisons, and Smith Parents.</p>
<p>Looking forward to it BJM. I don't suppose you're going to be in D.C. sometime in late June or July? I fear the next time TheMom and I hit Northampton will be Fall of senior year. I do hope your D gets to Admitted Students day because after finals in May, I don't think D will be back on campus until September 2007, assuming cards fall the way we expect.</p>
<p>Admitted Students day has a bunch of panels and presentations about different aspects of Smith, various bits of entertainment planned, classes open for student (and I think parental) sit-in, a meal in one of the dining rooms. Since your D would be there unofficially, one of our D's would have to spot your D a meal in the dining room if you guys can't somehow get comped...it's pretty fluid that day, though. It's definitely, imo, one of those do-some-things-together, do-some-things-separately kinds of days...be prepared for your D to scamper off in one direction or another without you while you lumber along and take in something else. </p>
<p>We just made sure to set up rendezvous points and times, fall backs, recognition codes, supply caches (spelled "cash" for student) and the like.</p>
<p>RLT, I was merely deferring to Senior Officer Present. You know what a stickler I am for tradition and protocol.</p>
<p>{Looking forward to it BJM. I don't suppose you're going to be in D.C. sometime in late June or July? I fear the next time TheMom and I hit Northampton will be Fall of senior year. I do hope your D gets to Admitted Students day because after finals in May, I don't think D will be back on campus until September 2007, assuming cards fall the way we expect.}</p>
<p>That's too bad; I hope our D's get to meet before then. Is she planning on going abroad? Unfortunately, we will npt be heading towards D.C. at anytime in the near future; (and after we see the bill, it'll probably be a long time before we go anywhere, period.) </p>
<p>I'm still confused about admitted students day. (sorry, but we in RI are a little slow on the draw during winter...you know, the hibernation thing). Anyway, isn't my D an admitted student? Or is this for other admitted students?</p>
<p>BJM, she's been admitted to the Picker Program (semester in D.C.) where she'll be in D.C. from July 1 through mid-December and then sometime after the first of next year she's off to Budapest for a semester of mathematics.</p>
<p>As I understand it, Admitted Students Day is an exercise in seduction for the RD students who haven't made up their minds. Or maybe they call it Open Campus. I may be wrong...who knows, I'm sure you can contact the campus when you come down from the glow just a little, enough to talk coherently on a telephone.</p>
<p>So, yeah, I hope our girls meet in April. There are some good nuggets to be found at the panel discussions et alia.</p>
<p>{The British have the perfect answer; no matter what the celebratory occasion, head to the pub. Well do that. I know of a great place in Amherst. See you there in August.}</p>
<p>Seriously, you let me know when, and we will be there. We are looking forward to meeting you, and hopefully our D's, as well, will meet soon.</p>
<p>As I understand it, Admitted Students Day is an exercise in seduction for the RD students who haven't made up their minds}}}</p>
<p>Exactly.</p>
<p>For the students who live too far to attend students day its not unusual for alumnae to host local parties for admitted students so they can meet each other and at the same time give Smith one last <em>push</em></p>
<p>{{RLT, I was merely deferring to Senior Officer Present.}</p>
<p>LOL-- How did I get that distinction? Is the kissy kissy thing French military protocol? If it is Ill say it again---you know way too many strange facts.</p>
<p>RLT, you're obviously a few more laps around the Smith track than I am, which gives you Seniority. And you're lucky it was only the French kissy kissy protocol...thank your stars it wasn't the Bulgarian. Don't ask. It's like the Greek but worse.</p>
<p>I do know a number of strange facts, at least when memory is functioning. An occupational habit of being a writer, among other things. And pursuing knowledge for its own pleasure, for another.</p>
<p>TD, you must be great at trivial pursuit! Now the Greek I can figure out, but the Bulgarian...Hmmm, you've peaked my interest. The two of you are something else, I'll tell you. But, what would this Smith post be without either of you?</p>
<p>Bulgarian = with a horse instead of a man. I made it up. With perhaps a nod to Candide receiving esteem for being able to drill soldiers in the Bulgarian fashion. </p>
<p>But this is why when I would give historical explanations of things, D would turn to TheMom and say, "Is this true?"</p>
<p>Btw, it's been years since I played Trivial Pursuit but I would always leap out to a lead but whenever TheMom got a chance, she would just feed me a steady diet of Entertainment Entertainment Entertainment questions...TV & Popular culture...it would have been my downfall on "Jeopardy."</p>