<p>The last thing I like to do is plan too far ahead and make time go faster - but can someone please tell me how big of a deal family weekend is? Believe it or not I have a conflict 3 years from now and I want to assess how important it is to be at family weekend during D's junior year.</p>
<p>We went to Pomona’s Family Weekend last year during our son’s freshman year. We drove, so we missed sitting in on the classes, but made it for the rest.</p>
<p>To be honest, there wasn’t too much to do. We enjoyed eating at the dining halls and seeing our son (and we got to meet his girlfriend and her family), but there wasn’t that much to do other than to enjoy the sunshine and visit the Getty museum! </p>
<p>I don’t think we will go back because of the expense and the time off from work, but if that isn’t the case for you, you might enjoy going just to hang in the sunshine and spend time with your child.</p>
<p>Most of the people who go to Family Weekend are the family of first-years - they’re the ones who are really into seeing where their kids go to school and meeting their friends and profs (understandably). So unless you foresee yourself being still as gung ho about Pomona in three years as you are now, I wouldn’t worry about it.</p>
<p>Also, your D may be doing spring semester abroad during junior year. I attended all the activities during the first year. In other years, I happened to be in the area for business, so stopped by to take my D out to dinner.</p>
<p>As always - thanks all for your productive responses. Little Mother - I didn’t even think about a semester abroad but I know that is high on D’s priority list, making Family Weekend a non-issue.</p>