<p>How is everyone's FY student doing in these first couple of weeks? D reports that she likes classes, her dorm (nice but very hot, no a/c), her roommate, food (especially places that use dining $, of course), and other kids. Her opinion at this point is that there is not much to do in town (but I think she needs to look harder and she will), most stay on campus on weekends so far, go to library, hang around, work out, eat, do laundry, go to frat parties. I think she is a little bored during the day on weekends during these first weeks since she has not made a lot of friends yet to do things with, but she seems generally happy. She is really outgoing and makes friends easily, but I guess it's only been 2 1/2 weeks.</p>
<p>She is taking the train home next Sat to be able to use the car, do some errands, have dinner with friends, and then go back Sunday morning. I was a little unsure of it at first, but if she wants to take charge of her weekends and take trips to NY, DC, etc., to break up the weekend on campus, she should also be able to take a trip home to Philly. She is taking the campus shuttle to/from Harrisburg for Amtrak ($20 each way) and will let you know how that goes. I am interested in how other FY's are finding it at this point in time, I hope smoothly!</p>
<p>My D is doing pretty well. She’s had 2 bouts of homesickness. They both occurred on Wednesdays. So, either that’s a weird coincidence, or something’s up. </p>
<p>She’s got a heavy schedule: Bio, Chem, Calc II, and FYS. So, she’s complaining about hw. She does say, however, that the labs are much easier in college than HS. :)</p>
<p>She’s making friends and keeping busy. Joined 3 clubs. Went to 1 frat party that I know of. As a non-drinker she said it was, “disgusting.” ha ha. She couldn’t get over the beer everywhere in the basement. Her brother, in a fraternity at his school, assured her that’s normal. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>We live less than an hour away. So, when she had her first case of homesickness, we brought her dog to visit her. She liked that, but didn’t need us to stay long. I’ll take that as a good sign. :)</p>
<p>She also says the food is great.</p>
<p>My son seems to be doing well. In true boy fashion, we are not getting a lot of details. Food is good, dorm is hot, he’s making friends. Not really sure what he’s doing on weekends - trying to give him space and let him tell us (I may be waiting for a while!)</p>
<p>He ventured to Walmart on the shuttle to get snacks and water etc. this week. Not hearingf much about the roommate or anything. He says classes are good seems to have a similar load to DougBetsy’s daughter.</p>
<p>The only we are having is that he has yet to find a job for work study. It’s frustrating, he seems to have gotten different info from the Gburg Works people. I finally did call and they will see if the can help him out on Monday. I hated to do it since he really wants to things on his own However, he needs the job. That’s been harder than we were led to believe but hopefully it will turnout all right. Has anyone else run into this?</p>
<p>My son is doing well. He enjoys all of his classes. He loves his FYS! He has established a study routine that works for him. At this point he has had graded assignments in all classes and the grades are all good!</p>
<p>He likes his dorm room and his roomate. He is a very easy going kid - when we moved him into his dorm he opened the closet and exclaimed " Awesome! Cool! I get a walk in closet!!!" - it is more of a step in type of closet or a very small/cramped walk in but - hey I was not about to squash the enthusiasm- he is a sunny glass full person!</p>
<p>He likes the food - thinks it is cool that he can go to Servo as much as he wants!</p>
<p>He is an athlete so that is taking up much of his time but he has identified some other activities he would like to pursue. We are giving him some time to get his bearings before asking him about his participation in other activities.</p>
<p>He has always made friends easily and that has remained the case in the first few weeks of college. He is the type of person who likes to meet all sorts of people and he is friendly so he will introduce himself and stike up a conversation with those around him. </p>
<p>At this point we have only minor concerns. One being the work options. We would like for him to get a small part time job. He has explored that option but nothing seems to be happening. The other is that his AP scores are still not showing - he should have some credits toward the general requirements but we do not know what those are - I guess as long as we know before class selection for spring term then it is fine.</p>