<p>Any homesick freshman out there? How is everyone doing with the change in workload?</p>
<p>D has been okay so far...had one somewhat sad Sunday, but it was following her birthday (without family around) a disappointing loss to Michigan, and a bout with an ear infection. So far, so good on this end...but it could change!</p>
<p>for me, it was really just the first week... all my friends went to the same school (IU) which made it really hard because they were all together and I knew nobody! Then, I made friends with the kids on my floor and the rest is history!!! this place is amazing...</p>
<p>the workload hasn't been bad at all... i actually have a lot more free time than I did in high school where it'd be 12 hours a day 7-7 with football practice in there... now its like a few hours of school a day and fball every tues and thurs for a couple hours... those are my only commitments right now--i think i need to get a job soon! i think i'm going to ref sporting events and maybe lifeguard... we'll see...</p>
<p>how many credtits are you taking jvon? You sound like you found a good balance</p>
<p>i'm only taking 15... it's probably the most I will ever take--I got a **** load of AP credits lol</p>
<p>I feel like I'm too busy/tired to be homesick.</p>
<p>ive been so busy that it really didnt hit me for a while, but tonight it kinda just hit me all at once and i called my mom crying haha. it feels a lot better when you get it all out though.</p>
<p>DD has been too busy to miss us I think. She told me last night she never even talks to her H.S. friends--everybody is too immersed in their new lives. </p>
<p>She says she misses her guy friends most--she says all the stories about weird gender relations at ND have turned out to be true for her. She says the guys that are outgoing are full of themselves and unpleasant--said a couple of guys in the quad called her and her roommate fat. These girls are SO not fat--but they aren't stick insect blondes either. The rest of the guys she says are quiet and don't have a lot of experience chatting up girls..I guess there are a lot of people from all-boy high schools there. </p>
<p>I told her to hang in there--we didn't have co-ed dorms either and it was well into winter quarter before I felt like I had guy friends.</p>
<p>It's not our fault! Guys' high schools do that!</p>
<p>Hahaha, the gender relations issue is really not that bad. She'll find guy friends eventually. I didn't really have any close guy friends until at least second semester of last year. Just avoid the ones who went to all guys schools. They're really awkward... :-P</p>
<p>yeah! i miss my guy friends too! it is a lot harder to make them with the way the dorms are and everything. but im sure it'll get better</p>
<p>My daughter isn't homesick, but she REALLY misses her twin!! They did everything together for 19 years. Her twin is making a roadtrip to ND this weekend, and my d at ND says she's told all of campus her sister will be there. She's so excited.
My ND daughter did call me 2 days ago, practically in tears over a project due the following day. She was a bit confused on it, and then she also had a physics test to study for. It will be hard for her to adjust to not getting 100% on everything, as she is a perfectionist.</p>
<p>Russ08-tell your daughter to hang in there! The perfectionist attribute may have to be tweaked somewhat. I think son can look back now at freshman year as truly an adjustment period. It will get better, as we see the change in son, now that he is a soph. He seemed to jump right in this year as if he knew what he was doing all along. His workload is still heavy, but he just seems to have a better handle on it.</p>
<p>And girls, as the Mom of a ND son, don't give them too much grief. While son did not attend an all boys' school, I think at times he is just oblivious, because of his workload! We hope that changes this year--don't be afraid to go up to a guy and speak to him. He truly may not be focusing on anything else at times except work!</p>
<p>My daughter has been having meltdowns over school work weekly. She too is used to a 100 average. She had a good routine in HS and now has to find a routine that works. I anticipated this as she is the youngest of five but she is so far away she can't come home for a hug to get her through</p>
<p>By the way my daughter has met several really nice boys and has been very comfortable with the ones she has met.</p>
<p>I know it will be OK...but DD is tired of the guys constantly throwing the whole "ND girls are ugly and St. Mary's girls are so hot" around. I think it is freshman party boys trying to be cool, but she probably doesn't have that perspective. She would be a lot happier talking to the quiet studious ones anyway, but she doesn't know that yet.</p>
<p>The GOOD news is she said her first chemistry test was "really, really easy." I hope she aces it--it will be a nice boost for her.</p>
<p>Apparently there was some mandatory seminar on college work...she was a bit insulted that the woman who led the seminar lectured them so extensively on how they couldn't just fake it like they all did in high school, and that college required real work and preparation.</p>
<p>My son hasn't seemed homesick. In fact he hasn't been communicating all that frequently. He's taking 17 units including Chemistry. He's not a science major but took it because he was interested. Unfortunately it is taking huge chunks of his time. He took the first test and thought he had done well only to discover that he hadn't done well at all. He was pretty demoralized. I hope he gets a handle on it. I don't want this to ruin his freshman year.</p>
<p>4mom4 He will and he can always withdraw if it is to overwhelming. From what I hear a lot of kids are stressing over chemistry.</p>
<p>Kr123, thanks for the words of support. Can he withdraw ? I thought freshmen had to have 5 classes and it's too late to pick up another class. He has enough AP credits that it wouldn't be a problem that way.</p>
<p>4mom4 It would be good for him to talk with his advisor even if it is for reassurance. Someimes they have to get through the first test to see what the teacher is looking for. I think they try to learn everything and that' isn't always necessary. Going to church will say a prayer for him</p>