<p>S2 graduates from Juilliard in 3 weeks. Will spend summer in Santa Barbara, then back to Juilliard for 2 more years - unless he lands a job before then.</p>
<p>D1 graduated last year after 3 years. She ended up at UMD after leaving UCBerkeley and got double degrees in Operations Managment and Information Systems. She has a good job in the Washington DC area. She will be home next month for her wedding to her college sweetheart :) D2 will also graduate after 3 years next month. She will have a degree in economics and a minor in Religious studies. Unfortunatley for her she did not get into any of the graduate programs she applied too. Maybe she should have gone to Berkeley or UCLA which she turned down to attend Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Oh well no basement here just her old room still covered with Star Wars posters.</p>
<p>DS will be graduating from Rice this Saturday with a double major in Mathematics and Computational and Applied Mathematics...what can I say...he's my math geek. After eight intense years between Rice and Exeter, he's decided he needs a break so he's accepted an analyst position back home in New Hampshire (yea!) with Liberty Mutual.</p>
<p>3 Rice grads in this thread! thats so cool!</p>
<p>Hope nobody minds if I toot my own horn a little since my parents have never been on this forum! :)</p>
<p>I'm graduating in two weeks from the University of Maryland with a BS in Marketing as well as a Spanish minor. Just found out last week I was elected for Phi Beta Kappa, which was both exciting and unexpected.</p>
<p>I have a job lined up doing marketing for a mid-sized market research firm in Northern Virginia. (I also interned with them last summer; got a couple other offers this fall but decided to return there full-time.) And I'll be moving into an apartment with a sorority sister who graduated a couple of years ago. </p>
<p>Congrats to everyone on the great things your kids are doing!! I'm sure they're as excited as I am about moving onto the next stage of our lives.</p>
<p>:eek: I just finished my last final yesterday!!</p>
<p>I'll be graduating from Colgate with a BA in history and a special title for my research project connection to a fellowship. Sweet. </p>
<p>Then I'm off to U of Michigan-Ann Arbor for my MA in Judaic Studies and then hopefully transfer into their history PhD program. Not funded as its the norm among social sciences/humanities programs. <em>sigh</em> But it's what I want to do and it's only for two years. I can deal with that kind of loan amount :)</p>
<p>OH MY GOD! I'm going to be a poor grad student!</p>
<p>Congrats lindz and tickmepink! I'm sure your families have already given you the proverbial "good job" but let me add some extra pats on the back from your CC virtual parents:)</p>
<p>Oh No!! My d just received her first Alumni Magazine. She hasn't seen it yet, as she is still up at school. Graduation is Memorial Day Week-end.
Have a feeling, the realization that she is now officially an alum and no longer a college student is gonna take a bit of adjustment. </p>
<p>Lindz and tickle-
My very best wishes. It's truly an exciting time for you. DC and Ann Arbor- very nice places to start the next phase of your life.</p>
<p>I'm so jealous of all you with kids getting stipends and full tuition coverage.</p>
<p>D is graduating (magna we think) and going to Northwestern's med school to earn a doctor in physical therapy degree. Big loans. But she deliberately chose it, forsaking the MD route and plans to go some international relief organizations later on.</p>
<p>We're proud of her and thanks to her undergraduate scholarship, she/we are debt-free....not so lucky with S though :)</p>
<p>Curiouser,
We are the reverse...some debt/loans for D1's undergrad...and, SO glad that she has been funded for grad school.</p>
<p>We are neither.....have debts for college and will for 3.5 year graduate school. :) (maybe the smiley face should be :( ??)</p>
<p>We have been fortunate to have paid for D's education without having to go into debt. She won a merit based scholarship that paid $15,000 over her jr and sr years, and that made a big difference. So we're not in debt, just broke. :) and :(</p>
<p>She's only graduating with honors because that's all Chicago has. If they had summa, she would be that, as not only is she PBK, she won the honor a year ago as a junior!</p>
<p>Ultimately, med school, grad school or an MD/PhD are in the cards. After Oxford, she can decide. </p>
<p>I am still amazed at what she's done in 4 years....</p>
<p>No debts here, and perhaps we can borrow from the hefty size of her graduate fellowship (which she'll never get even close to spending) to pay for her sister's education.</p>
<p>Son is graduating Grinnell with an English degree, no debt. I wonder if he had debt if it would have been more likely he would have been a bit more aggressive in trying to find a job!! </p>
<p>He loved Grinnell...but in retrospect, maybe he should have gone to a liberal arts college which required internships. He anticipates grad school in a few years, but he has to find something to do in the interim. It could be tough as there is no basement to run home to....</p>
<p>Your "kids" all sound amazing! Here's hoping the Class of 2010 parents have the same great outcomes!</p>
<p>S2 will be graduating in 11 days from Lehigh with a major of Mechanical Engineering and minors in Materials Science and History. He's staying for his PhD in MatSci with paid tuition and stipend. I'm just ecstatic he graduated in 4 years. I'm hoping he doesn't become a "professional student". :)</p>
<p>Another pair of really proud parents here.</p>
<p>S will be graduating Brandeis next week with a double major in economics and Near Eastern Studies plus a double minor. Eight-time member of the Dean's List and finishing up elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Has a job lined up in DC while he contemplates what to do next. Far superior to his old man, who definitely would not be able to get into the school he attended back when.</p>
<p>S1 will be graduating from Swarthmore in 3 weeks (they seem to be later than everybody else) with a physics major and history minor. He's headed to MIT to get his PhD in physics and will actually move up there in July to get a head start working in his advisor's lab. We're all amazed at how quickly the past 4 years have gone by.
S2 will graduate HS five days after S1's college graduation. He's headed to GW in the fall, planning to major in poli sci. Being in Washington the next 4 years should be really exciting (assuming the Democrats win).</p>
<p>I'm really enjoying hearing from those I've "known" on here for a long time. It's like getting to the end of a good book.</p>
<p>Shellfell -- Ok, tell me your secret. You've got a kid graduating college, your join date is Aug 2004, and you've got a total of one thread and 39 posts. How did you avoid becoming as addicted as the rest of us?</p>
<p>Anyone heard from TheDad? Who else are we missing from the "class" some years back?</p>