With parents weekend a long many months away, family was planning on visiting Hanover during the Homecoming Weekend to take in bonfire, football game, etc. Freshman Son advises may not be the best weekend to visit. Thoughts from those more experienced?
Take your son’s advice, since you want him to enjoy the visit. You can still visit him sooner than parents’ weekend, just pick another weekend of which he approves.
Son has his own plans. Let him be. Go for parent’s weekend. Maybe some future year you can go during Homecoming Weekend
Our best visits were anytime other than the big ones, including the official Family Weekends which we found boring, boring, boring. Pick a different football game to go to. Go see a rugby game. Go in winter and hit a hockey game. Hanover is a wonderful town when it’s not crawling with people. Actually, it’s darned great even when it is … but it’s better when the line for gelato isn’t as long, and you get a table at Murphy’s on the day you want to eat.
Thank you - Enjoy your Big Green posts over the past year. Even though Murphy’s provided wife with Bloody Mary relief following drop off last week, we are partial to Lou’s!
It depends on how much time you need to spend with S. If you are ok with one dinner with S and friends, I suspect that is workable. (Good) food is a big motivator. Conversations over a good dinner are like driving the kids in the back of the van to the soccer match. They forget you are there and spill everything.
Like ATS, not a fan of the Family weekend for getting a good view of the infrastructure. Hard to get all your student’s friends out to dinner as they are with their families, so you only get a partial picture. You may get a sliver of the experience (e.g., all the rugby players and their parents for ATS which is great), but you will miss the diversity of the connections your S makes.
The color and pageantry of Homecoming is fun (Friday night and Saturday game) if you can pull it off one time in your parentage. Do not know how much longer there will be a bonfire. If they ditch the bonfire, not sure I would be as sanguine about visiting that weekend.
Sounds like your son has his own life at Dartmouth. Maybe you can plan a leaf viewing trip in the area and agree on a time when you can take him to dinner or brunch. Let his college experience be his, and your mini vacation can be yours. I understand your desire to see him, btw, but would recommend doing it on his terms (hard as that is!)
Pretty sure the bonfire was cancelled for this year – unless the administrative and local police have had a change of heart…
Seriously? First Tubestock, now the bonfire?
Safety culture strikes again.