<p>Please tell me that our family isn't the only one teetering on the edge waiting for our child to leave for college. With each friend that leaves to start their freshman year, the angst in our son grows exponentially. The last one left two days ago and all of our nerves are raw. We're leaving for Hanover the first week in September and may not be speaking by then.</p>
<p>The D-plan sounds great in every way, EXCEPT for the wait to get started. How do others deal with this time?</p>
<p>It is tough on them, especially freshmen year! Though I do enjoy the alone time I get with DS after the friends have gone back to school.</p>
<p>Tons of stuff to do. ■■■■■ on the internet, watch Japanese variety shows, work out…</p>
<p>…<em>angst</em>
It’s been coming over me too, a first-year student. I’m just trying to cope by reading and watching tv mostly, but it really is hard to see all my friends leaving and I can see how your son might be taking it out on you. I guess give him some private time? Right now, as long as my parents don’t bother me, I don’t snap at them.</p>
<p>I remember that time so well and, yes, it is especially a problem before freshman year when all the friends are leaving. This year is odd for us as well- our daughter left for her college yesterday but my Dartmouth son won’t return from Sophomore Summer until September 1 and then he goes back around September 18th to start preseason training for crew. The only times that I expect them both home at the same are at Thanksgiving and winter break (but he spends half of that in Texas with his team for winter training for they only overlap for a few days). He is never home at all during spring break because spring training in Tennessee.</p>
<p>chicago is on the quarter system too, and personally i really would not mind staying at home longer.</p>
<p>The quarter system is too out of sync with all of my friends. I leave a couple weeks later, and get back around the same time.</p>