<p>S1 is still at his internship/post grad position at a SF start-up. Well, these days it’s not so much a start-up anymore, but has proceeded thru two rounds of investor funding and has grown from a staff of three during his internship to hundreds of employees in 35 cities world-wide. He just moved in with his GF of one-year yesterday; we enjoyed vicariously living through their trips to IKEA, assembling furniture and setting up house.</p>
<p>apol,my son is in DC as well.</p>
<p>archiemom, enjoy! Shlepping naches is so much fun.</p>
<p>It’s so great to hear about all the wonderful things that the 2007s are doing these days! </p>
<p>D1 was in DC for a year too and will be relocating to SF at the end of summer. She’s moved around so much lately that she had to submit 4 state tax returns last year! I’m glad that she’s settling down for the next few year at least, and am especially happy that she’ll be closer to home and family.</p>
<p>I don’t visit the Cafe much, but will try to check in periodically to see how everyone is doing.</p>
<p>I am heading to DC later this week to apartment hunt with S2…he actually invited me! He has decided that he does not want a room mate, and that he would prefer to be out of the student ghetto.</p>
<p>Knowing the rents in DC, it will be interesting to see what we find that he can afford!</p>
<p>But it will be a fun weekend.</p>
<p>My D was in DC for a year too, interning for a Senator and working for a legal non-profit. She moved home last fall and applied to law school. She recently returned from volunteering for 2 months in Thailand, and after some additional travel this summer, will start law school in the fall back at her alma mater, the University of Chicago.</p>
<p>I had a wonderful long weekend in DC with my son, and found a great studio apartment for him in the perfect location in a building with some nice amenities-- we ran the numbers, and he can actually afford more than he thought. I was shocked that he did not need a co-signer on his lease.</p>
<p>The day after I left, he left for a Birthright trip to Israel. He gets back June 28 and starts his job July 1.</p>
<p>Thank you all for posting updates on your kids! This has been a lovely trip down memory lane.</p>
<p>Our S graduated with a history major from Carleton and went straight into a master’s of urban planning program. He just started a full-time job at a federal transportation center in Cambridge where he’d interned during school. Whew. Now I’m focused on our D, who’ll graduate from HS in 2015. She, of course, is a completely different kettle of fish. :eek:</p>
<p>Hi limner! urban planning is getting to be a very hot career! My nephew is in an urban planning masters program in Chicago.</p>
<p>Have fun with your daughter’s college journey! I miss the fun of those days. My S2 did all of the graduate program stuff by himself, with the help of his professors, and just kept me informed each time he received an acceptance. Not nearly as much fun.</p>
<p>boysx3, yes, S’s search and application process with grad school was vastly different (and, I must say, less stressful) than his undergrad. He did everything and just talked some stuff over with us. I was nostalgic for the college admissions days until our D got further into it. ;)</p>
<p>Hi limner, so good to hear from you again! </p>
<p>Glad that all is going well in Boston. D1 is there now too, but just temporarily as her BF is working in the mayor’s office. She’ll be home briefly in Aug before moving to the Bay Area. D2 will be entering her jr year this fall, time flies. I have the same situation with my kids, polar opposites, which makes life interesting.</p>
<p>I also have a D from the H.S. Class of 2007. She graduated from Vanderbilt and now works as a consultant in the health care industry. She has been on assignment in Oakland, CA since June 2012, and she will be on that assignment until at least next March. Every Monday, she flies out … every Thursday she flies back. That’s a young person’s life - I am too old to even think about that! She is living in Chicago and loving it. We also like it, since we get to see her more often than we did when she was in Nashville. We have a cottage on the west side of Michigan, so she can take the South Shore or Amtrak - this weekend, she & her boyfriend rented a car & drove out. It was our first time meeting him -poor guy got to meet the whole family (D’s grandparents, cousins, aunt & uncle). He is a great guy, so we feel like all is well with our oldest.</p>
<p>S is going into his senior year in college, and I am not quite sure what he will do next. Probably grad school, but since he is not incredibly self-motivated, I am not sure how it will all play out. He is an adult, though, so whatever he does or does not do is on him. He’ll figure it out. His sister did - she spent 8 or 9 months working as a barista, and it all worked out just fine in the end.</p>
<p>Since we are doing updates - DD graduated with her BMus from Rice. She has supported herself and worked in Houston for 2 years, singing with the Houston Grand Opera chorus and working retail and a church job. She has spent her summers in opera festivals. She is going to return to school for her Masters in Music, Vocal Performance at Cleveland Institute of Music. It will be nice having her within driving distance now. It is a long apprenticeship type path she has chosen, but an exciting journey.</p>
<p>It is so good to see all these updates!</p>
<p>Limner, my oldest son (high school class of 2003) and his wife live in Boston, which is her home town. </p>
<p>S2, who is class of 2007, just started his real world job (after getting his masters in June) and discovered that he may be missing the date to move in to his apartment–he has trips to New York, Chicago and Israel already on his schedule–so it looks like I may be doing his move in for him.</p>
<p>This maybe early, but any wedding or engagement yet?</p>
<p>Good to see so many successful graduates of the HS class of 2007. D1 graduated from Harvard in 2011 and is now in her second year of grad school at Duke - went straight into a PhD program. She spent part of the summer with us and has now gone to spend time with her grandmother in the islands. </p>
<p>D2 just graduated from HS and starts college in just about a month.</p>
<p>Oldest son graduated from Tulane 2011 and he liked it so much it was his first choice for law school. He was wait listed, but went to the Dean in person and basically argued his way in, lol. He is a rising 3Y now, working on an environmental law internship in NOLA this summer with the Sierra Club. He will be a student lawyer this fall with Tulane’s Environmental Law Clinic, and is a member of the Environmental Law Journal. His general specialization in law seems pretty clear at this point, but we’ll see how it plays out job wise. He’s been on his own financially since graduation, so it’s been a struggle, but he has a new appreciation for money and the support of family. His 2Y was very trying - he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Luckily it was found early and he managed to hang in there thru surgery and chemo and not quit school. He actually had his best semester yet academically this past spring, when he was feeling his worst. Luckily it was caught very early so prognosis is good. I feel very grateful for that, and also that he has a clear career focus and good prospects. I have friends with kids who went to college without that focus, and are now living back at home with low paying jobs.</p>
<p>Very best wishes to you and your son Moonmaid, for his improving health and continued work with environmental issues.</p>
<p>Moonmaid - what a great son you have. It is admirable to be able to focus on school work while combating a serious disease. Best wishes to him.</p>
<p>Moonmaid, Cheers to you and your son.</p>
<p>Thank you all - we are very proud of him. In a weird way he will have an advantage over others in knowing that he can combat adversity and succeed.</p>