<p>i won't want to, but my dad will want me to... lol</p>
<p>he wants me to try to graduate a semester or a year early (depending on if all my credits apply to required courses, summer school is always an option too) and try to get into graduate school there for the last year or semester or whatever</p>
<p>That sounds like a really bad idea.</p>
<p>Dude, you got into Notre Dame, you might as well enjoy it.</p>
<p>omg i want to but my parents are paying for my college cuz im frickin spoiled and if i can save my dad 20/40 grand... im not gonna have a choice... ill just fail a couple classes so i cant possibly do it lol</p>
<p>To the OP: My son is graduating from ND this weekend. He absolutely did not feel ready to go off to college, although he never said that. We could only get him to visit three schools. He only applied to two, Penn State and Notre Dame. He got in EA to ND, and didn't even seem excited about it...ever. The night before we left for ND he was NOT happy. But then...he never called us the first week. Good sign. Then a couple of weeks later we got another phone call and he said he felt like he was "home." </p>
<p>You'll be fine, especially at ND.</p>
<p>yeah of all schools, ND is the most personal with the most "family like" atmosphere (from what i've heard)... that video they show you if you go on the tour is such a good advertisement! lol that seriously made me want ND so much more--then my tour guide told me about padded intramural fball and the huge outdoor basketball tourney and the big boxing tournament... coming into the tour i was unsure of where i wanted to go, when i left i was 100% sure all i wanted to do was go to ND... if you're not sure about ND go on the tour and you'll see how amazing the school is and how much history/tradition there is! it really just gives you goosebumps...</p>
<p>^^ Totally agree</p>
<p>the tour will do it to you</p>
<p>I was already 100% sure that I was going to ND before the tour, but just the day that they plan for you is just amazing. </p>
<p>Me and my dad walked trhough the ring of honor thing throughout the bottom level of the gym, and it just makes you realize where you are. </p>
<p>You are walking the same steps of the four horsemen, Knute Rockne, Johnny Lujack, John lattner, joe montana, Joe Theismann , the gipper, Craig Counsell ( AZ dbacks love right there), tim brown, jerome bettis,Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian ( Sp?), Lou Holtz., the priests, the students... and everyone else................... it gives me goosebumps just typing that</p>
<p>When you step onto campus, you immediately become a part of something great. They welcome you with open arms: you instantly ,almost inherently become apart of that family that sorin and those 6 other priests began back in November(?) of 1842.</p>
<p>Personally I think that experience of living there for 4 more months is well worth the extra 20 grand.</p>
<p>The first couple of weeks can be nerve-racking at any school, and ND is no different. Eventually, though, you'll get into the swing of things and find your own routine.</p>
<p>I definitely agree with jvon's comment about the ND family. It exists, and I feel like it will continually support each one of us even after we graduate. I can't speak for everyone, but it was remarkable for me, thinking back over my first year at school while flying back home a couple weeks ago, when I realized that I am as close with the friends I've made at school as my highschool friends, who I've known (some of) for 13 or 14 years. </p>
<p>--on a side note, watch out for the Bookstore Basketball tourny...in our first matchup I tore my ACL, MCL, and my miniscus, plus I bruised my kneecap. The health services people told me I was the first injury this year. They explained that the event causes an extremely high percentage of the yearly injuries (probably up there with alcohol abuse, haha) to students. Considering I am horrible at the sport, I have vowed never to play it again. I type this as I sit here in my full extension knee immobilizer, 1 week post-op...the tournament is a ton of fun, and if I could do it again, I definitely would (though I would probably take knee safety training to learn how to fall correctly). Just be careful is all.</p>
<p>haha ^ priceless</p>