New parents - if you haven’t already, go to http://www.sa.sc.edu/parents/ and sign up for the Parents Association. It’s free and sends you an e-newsletter every month (or two?) that reminds you of stuff the students are seeing in terms of deadlines so it’s a nice way for you to be able to ask your student things like “have you signed up for advisement, are you attending the activity fair, do you know last day to drop/add?” since you will know what’s coming up. I always used this to double check my calendar for events of interest to us like parents weekend.
Thanks for the tip.