<p>The hotel thing is interesting isn’t it. Fortunately I booked a year ago. When I booked the desk advisor told me I was getting it at book rate and if I had waited a few months the rate would double. I checked on-line in December just to see and sure 'nough they were charging double for the rooms.</p>
<p>I posted this on the other update thread, but it seems to have disappeared into the back threads… DS started his parttime job in his field, in his area, this last week. Assuming he is in good standing, job morphs into fulltime professional work 2 weeks after graduation in May. Graduating in Civ.E. Yeah!</p>
<p>Am having the same feeling, oldfort. I will miss going to her campus for great cultural and seafood visits. CanNOT believe four years have almost passed! Denial, denial.</p>
<p>On the other hand…she found a great job, in a great location, and is thrilled with a few years of real-world experience before grad school. Now, is she ready for The Ceremony–where she cuts up the parent-supported credit card and shifts all expenses to her private card?</p>
<p>Lurkness, I didn’t know your D knows Japanese–watashi mo! (me too!)</p>
<p>DS started at Rose Hulman in ME and is looking forward to finishing in ME. Great fit for him, and he found a job working in an area that he loves.</p>
<p>Not on this list cause son graduated from HS in '06, but now he is graduating from Case Western, his original school, in '11 with a major in computer science.</p>
<p>It’s been a long road (no, he wasn’t in a 5 year program!) with some health issues besides, but he pulled through and I am so proud of him. Looking forward to grad weekend in May! :)</p>
<p>And this reminds me, need to book hotel reservations. We don’t have to be right on campus, and those are certainly sold out already.</p>
<p>PS. No job yet. He’s not sure <em>what</em> he wants to do, though he’s very very good at many aspects of CS.</p>
<p>Son will graduate from his original school (Bowdoin) this coming May. He is also one of the recipents of the 2011-12 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship.</p>
<p>Well, S is still at Tulane, graduating in May. He started out as a Poli Sci major, then decided to double major in Poli Sci & Philosophy, then changed to major in Philosophy, minor in Poli Sci. He has applied to 5 law schools, got one acceptance and one rejection so far, would like to stay at Tulane for law school if he can, but I’d kind of like to see him elsewhere, since he tends to go for ruts. He found Tulane a lot more challenging academically than he thought - he messed up a little and is graduating with only a 3.2 gpa, but really loves Philosophy and is considering going for his MA in Philosophy and working as a TA if most of his law school admissions don’t go the way he wants (he is currently in at a school he considers a “safety” - still Tier 1, but not his first choice). He has definitely learned a lot, mostly the hard way, and now actually calls for advice on occasion. Did not make a ton of friends, mostly because a bunch of old friends from HS moved down and he didn’t put himself out there to meet new people. I think he regrets that a bit. But he still loves NOLA. Can’t wait to see his graduation, which will be soon!</p>
<p>I’m one of the student regulars from that year. You’ll know who I am immediately, but with all the inappropriately personal things I posted back then, I’ve retired the username. I am graduating from Dartmouth with a geography major and public policy minor.</p>
<p>The last four years have been fulfilling personally but disappointing academically, which is in many ways the opposite of what I was expecting. That’s no statement on quality of education, which has been outstanding, just four years of underachieving relative to my efforts, feeling (at first) mystified and (later, increasingly) disheartened by this. I would have graduated never knowing why, with commensurate damage to my self-esteem, if a professor hadn’t referred me to the academic skills/accessibility center, which turned right around and referred me for neuropsychological evaluation. All of which means it’s senior spring and I’ve just been diagnosed with ADHD (inattentive type, with impulsivity) and processing speed issues, which sort of puts in a different light my ~3.25 average and the fact that my transcript has me getting As and C+s in the same term with no discernible difference in course difficulty.</p>
<p>Academics aside, I’ve completed three internships at respected and innovative nonprofits, two of them fully funded by Dartmouth (I lived at home for the third). I’ve co-founded an organization that grew from 10 to 100 members in the span of two years, traveled to San Francisco on an interfaith service trip, and presented policy research to the New Hampshire state legislature. I’ve worked two jobs and freelanced all along and still have ridiculous debt, but it has been, in the end, worth it.</p>
<p>My immediate plans are to work for a few years in the urban policy/social innovation realm. I’d like to go to grad school eventually, either in public policy or urban planning, but am unsure to what extent having had an undiagnosed learning disability excuses (or at least mitigates) my transcript. While I don’t have a job offer yet, I am cautiously optimistic.</p>
<p>So that’s me. Hard to believe it’s only two months until graduation!</p>
<p>If you are who I think you are, you had lived in another country in high school? If that is who you are, you definitely have grown up … and I am so glad to know that you have had some wonderful experiences. Sounds like all is great, which is what we like to hear! :)</p>
<p>lyra, I’ve followed your travails through the various name changes. I don’t think you need to be ashamed of anything you posted - at least not that I can recall. Glad to hear that you finally put a finger on what some of the issues were - I know it must have been incredibly frustrating. You sound a lot like my younger son - who has no official diagnosis, but has had various issues off and on throughout his schooling. (He also has similar interests.) Good luck with the job hunt. I’ve always enjoyed hearing from you.</p>
<p>Son is graduating in June. Entered MIT certain he would study biological engineering but quickly switched to Elec. Eng. & Comp Sci. Will be spending one more year there getting his master’s in EECS. Who knows after that? He’s really enjoyed college, but would have enjoyed a bigger athletic environment. He’s gotten that vicariously from keeping up with our hometown teams. H and I both thought the other had booked a hotel, so we may have to sleep on the dorm floor for graduation!
Great to hear from everyone.</p>
<p>Lyra - your grades sound fine, and you’ll do fine in grad school or the work world. I don’t ever recall reading anything too personal on your old posts, so no shame there. Good luck, my dear, in all your future endeavors. :)</p>
<p>My D started flagship CC in 2007 & transferred to USoCal Jan 2009; plans to graduate Spring 2012 in cinema. Has been very happy & is talking about grad school at USC or CMU; we shall see.</p>
<p>Parents - you may want to remind your graduating senior to ask their favorite professors for recommendation letters. D1 was the one who thought of it. She doesn’t have any plan in going to graduate school yet, but she asked 2 professors to write her a recommendation letter, just in case if she should decide to go to a graduate school later.</p>
<p>“Now that you are “relaxed” here is the list from 2007…”</p>
<p>IIRC, at the time I complained that compilation of this list did not begin until long after the ED admits were done and most were already off CC. Out of solidarilty with her fellow ED’ers, I kept mine off too. D2 wound up changing both colleges and majors, and will graduate from Cornell in May. Loved it there.</p>
<p>At the outset, let me congratulate all the parents whose children are getting ready for their graduation ceremony 
Our daughter is graduating from University of Virginia. Double Major: Economics and Foreign Affairs. Initial plan was to apply for Law Schools. She is keen to take up a job now and save money for her graduate school. She is indeed intelligent to appreciate the cost factor! Most probably she will be relocating to Philly, not sure though!</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone. I’ve grown immensely over the last few years, no question.</p>
<p>kelsmom, I lived abroad in elementary school but was over here from seventh grade on. Is that what you were thinking of?</p>
<p>My daughter is graduating from MIT and entering a Ph.D. program in physics at Harvard.</p>
<p>After a rocky start at Michigan (due to out of control sleep issues and related problems), my D will be gradutating later this month from the Michigan Business school. Michigan was a reluctant “safety” school, and it took her the better part of two years to get past that sense of rejection. SHe is graduating Phi Beta Kappa, had an amazing opportunity to lead a major EC and, best of all, has a great job lined up a mile from “home” back in southern CA. She will take the GMAT this summer in case an MBA is in her future. We could not be happier or more proud.</p>