<p>I relied heavily on this forum as my daughter prepared for college and rediscovered it recently because my son is a high school senior. I recognize a lot of the parent posters from last time around, so I know some of you have soon-to-be college grads.</p>
<p>I thought it would be nice to catch up. From what school will your son or daughter graduate and what's next? A job (and is one lined up)? Grad school? Travel? Returning home to live with the 'rents? Marriage?</p>
<p>My son will be graduating in June from UCLA Engineering. Summa cum laude! It's really been an interesting 4 years. We went to all of the home football games at the Rose Bowl to see him march at halftime, and we also went to the homecoming parades where he would march with the band at the front of the parade, then run back to the end of the parade and ride on his Fraternity float. He got a full ride fellowship for UCLA Grad School, and he is looking forward to that for next year.</p>
<p>Our son is graduating from RPI in May and will be going on to grad school at USC. He was in Pasadena last summer on an internship and loved his first foray in California. USC has a graduate program in electronic/digital entertainment that is very good insofar as it is located in the entertaiment industry's epicenter and has always has a highly respected film school. I know that the company he interned for had done projects for ABC/Disney, though the project he was involved was an independent one due for release this year and published by a UK company.</p>
<p>My daughter is graduating from Denison with a dual degree in English and Communications. She recently was accepted into the Philadelphia Teaching Fellows program; for the next two years, she will be teaching in a city high school <em>and</em> getting her master's degree at a local university. I'm so proud of her (and thrilled she will be getting full teacher's salary and benefits - medical, vision & dental)!</p>
<p>Wow, these are great! I hope there are more. Congrats to all!</p>
<p>Five-year full-ride plus $25k/yr plus health insurance plus travel budget to Princeton in Musicology/Italian Renaissance Studies. No clue about graduation honors at Smith (other than her honors thesis in music - a piano quintet - was accepted.) We'll find out when it happens.</p>
<p>D1 will be graduating from Haverford College in May with major in organic chem and minor in east asian studies. She is taking a break this summer and returning home to work before starting grad studies at Boston College with full tuition, stipend, and insurance coverage. We are looking forward to her graduation...and rushing back for D2's HS commencement the week after! ;)</p>
<p>My son is graduating with a BS degree in Computer Science (minor in Business) next month. He is looking for fulltime employment close to home.</p>
<p>My son is graduating from Lewis & Clark with a major in bio and a minor in chemistry. He is looking for full time work and would like to stay in the Portland area.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>Wow, these are great! I hope there are more. Congrats to all!<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>I figure that the people who are posting are self-selecting...you'd only post if the news were good.</p>
<p>D has had trouble deciding what she wants to do with the degree in physics that she'll have come June. She has a whole of list of things that she DOESN"T want to do with it. She has narrowed her interest down to robotics, but her physics degree isn't quite on point for her interest. Will she try to get an entry level job? Try to get into a MS program? Inquiring minds want to know.</p>
<p>I told her that my only requirement was that she graduate in 4 years. She has met that requirement...the future is really up in the air here.</p>
<p>I think that as a rule, CC kids are high-achieving. </p>
<p>ellemenope (great name): My son, who starts college at American U this fall, is also interested in robotics. It sounds like a fascinating field. However, he is the aberration in our family -- a good mathematic/scientific mind (skipped a generation -- my father is a genuine rocket scientist).</p>
<p>My husband and I are writers. Daughter graduates UChicago in June and starts a six-year combined MA/PhD program at Yale with full tuition and a $25,000 a year stipend. She's going for a degree in Ancient Christianity. Even though my husband and I are humanities oriented, too, we usually have no idea what she's talking about when she waxes rhapsodic about her courses and plans. We just nod and pretend we comprehend.</p>
<p>Anybody's child getting married or anything?</p>
<p>My younger one is going to American U as well! (but in international business/accounting and international service/Arabic).</p>
<p>It is fun reading the follow up stories for some members who have been on here since these kids applied to undergrad school. Lots of exciting news. I agree ellenmenope that some may not post if they don't have news, but it is early yet for some grads to have all the pieces in place and that is to be expected. </p>
<p>My oldest is graduating next month from Brown in Architectural Studies. She is heading to MIT's School of Architecture to earn her MArch I degree (3.5 year program) and is excited about it. She just got hired as an intern in an architecture firm in NYC for this summer, where her younger sister goes to school and has a job for the summer in her field too and so that is going to be nice for them.</p>
<p>Son will be graduating from Caltech and will then begin a PhD program at Harvard. NSF and NDSEG Fellowships will provide 5 years of support (Stipend + Tuition etc.). We're very happy and proud parents.</p>
<p>my daughter graduated three years ago and is living in my basement...........</p>
<p>D graduates from Chicago in June with degrees in Biological Sciences and Spanish. She will be off to Oxford for two-three years in the fall. After that, who knows. At least I don't have to pay for Oxford. :)</p>
<p>Hard to believe that just 4 years ago we were worried about what school they would attend, what computer to buy, how to ship things and such. Now the only thing I worry about it how to get it all home....</p>
<p>These four years at U. Chicago have been better than I ever could have imagined for our daughter. It has been so amazing to watch her mature, make decisions we disagreed with that turned out fine, and grow to like her parents even more.</p>
<p>She turned down an internship with BCG for this summer because it would have meant staying in Chicago. she wants to come home to DC to be with us (so she says...) before heading to the UK. They were great words to hear.</p>
<p>This is a cool thread! :)</p>
<p>I've been here since my soon-to-graduate son was a junior in high school. He will get his electrical engineering/computer science (mostly CS) degree from MIT in June and has a job lined up with a new company in NYC. He is excited about his job and about finishing school. He decided grad school, if it happens, will happen down the road a few years.</p>
<p>Mini ~ Congrats to your younger D on American U. I recall that she was looking for DI gymnastics programs. How'd that factor into the decision?</p>
<p>Our daughter is graduating in June from Carleton with a chemistry degree. In September, she enters UWashington's Atmospheric Sciences PhD program (Atmospheric Chemistry) with tuition/stipend/health ins. She had a wonderful cadre of profs at Carleton who helped shape her passion. One was instrumental in directing her focus toward Cloud and Aerosol Research in the Arctic. Her goal is to get to the North or South Pole ASAP with a fancy mass spectrometer. I guess that's what Minnesota's climate has prepared her for. :)</p>
<p>All these kids are doing interesting and worthwhile endeavors. The future of our country is hopefully very bright with their contributions.</p>