<p>WHOA! I missed your great news, momjr!! Congrats!!! Did she get both offers??</p>
<p>Thanks jym! She has a final interview this weekend for the job that she thinks is her top choice. She cancelled some other interviews and will take the first offer if this one doesn’t work out. </p>
<p>Did your son work out the scheduling problems?</p>
<p>Good luck, momjr!</p>
<p>Not sure about the status of the interviews with DS. The one that was supposed to be here tomorrow is going to be rescheduled/held in the city he is curently located, but I don’t think it is set up yet. He still has one this Friday. The third one was pushed out to Dec 2.</p>
<p>Posting my 3,000th CC post here. It seemed only right. You all have been such a help, over the years. Thank you, and continued good luck to all our seniors.</p>
<p>Alumother: Congrats on reaching 3,000 posts and thanks again for starting this thread.</p>
<p>momjr - My pleasure. I joined here a long time ago, and have since wandered all over the Internet, to Twitter, to starting and running my own blog, and I have to say: CCers are a heckuva smart, literate bunch.</p>
<p>Has anyone’s college senior taken a personal financial planning course/workshop/seminar? I suggested this to my S, and if his school has such a thing, it’s too late for him to take it (full schedule plus work next semester). I’m thinking it could be done online after he graduates and has some spare time. Any recommendations for where to look for a course? He is conscientious about finances but just not experienced yet. For example, there is money left in his college fund (the part that tanked because it was in a mutual fund), and I want to turn it over to him to use for culinary school, but he needs to make informed decisions about it. It won’t cover the whole two years, so he’ll need advice about loans, too (he has no undergraduate debt, fortunately).</p>
<p>And as a side note, isn’t it depressing that someone his age thinks a great interest rate on savings is anything over 1 percent?</p>
<p>geezermom: I dont know of anything, but I’d be interested for my S too. Since he’s graduating early, we’ve agreed to pay his rent for 6 months as a “thank you” and to help him get started, but I’m concerned he’ll feel like he has all these discretionary funds to spend when our expectation is that he’ll save the money for grad school down the road.</p>
<p>On a related note, older son is very good at living within his budget & still managing to save and invest money. As a grad student, his stipend is actually less than younger son will be earning at his job, so I’m hoping older son will impart some words of wisdom to his younger brother about living within a budget while still having fun.</p>
<p>shellfell, if I find something I’ll post information here. Maybe a course isn’t necessary. A good old-fashioned book would be fine.</p>
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<p>At my daughter’s sorority they have senior workshops throughout their senior year. They have discussions on all of the life skills that the girls will need in order to be able to survive out on their own. They cover things like financial planning, using a checkbook and paying bills (or the modern version of a checkbook), ordering utilities, even some basic cooking skills. It seems like a great idea and gives the senior girls an additional benefit from being in a house, which often by senior year can become old.</p>
<p>Just got my Diploma Frame Gift Guide. It’s coming fast!</p>
<p>Has anyone chosen yearbook pictures yet? Yikes. They have NOT entered the 21st century.</p>
<p>No yearbook, as far as I know (big state university). We’ve been getting graduation announcement mailings, but we’re not doing that. I need to nail down the likely schedule for graduation events so we can make plane reservations before the SW fare goes through the roof. We have hotel rooms for more nights than we’ll need, so eventually I’ll cancel some of those. This all feels so. . .weird.</p>
<p>S has a week off for Thanksgiving, so I’m not working next week. Having him home eases the inevitable family-related holiday angst because he has a great sense of humor about it. His big paper period of the semester always happens in the two weeks before TG, so he’s been busy. I like it that his next semester includes courses that fascinate him but that he hasn’t had time to take: Hinduism, U.S. history of the '60s, linguistics. He did his senior capstone this semester. At his school you can take upper-level courses as a senior in some departments without prerequisites, which means these aren’t big lectures full of freshmen.</p>
<p>S took yearbook pictures a few weeks ago, but we haven’t seen the proofs yet. I hope it comes out better than his HS yearbook picture.</p>
<p>Woo Hoo!! DS just got the job offer he wanted!! The National office offered a certain amount. Then he got a call from the office hiring him that they were upping the offer by 4K and adding a signing bonus! He is a happy camper.</p>
<p>Older s is taking a new job across country, leaving in 2 weeks. I am sad that he is moving so far away, but its a good opportunity for him so am happy for that/ So, older one has been off the payroll for 3 1/2 years, and we have one semester to go for younger one!!</p>
<p>I don’t know if D1 has a yearbook or not, but she says a lot of her friends do “senior pictures” with private companies to send out in graduation announcements. Also, she says that they are taking reservations now for restaurants so at Thanksgiving we are going to work on a headcount so we can make dinner reservations for after graduation.</p>
<p>Congrats to your S, jym626</p>
<p>jym – wahoo! Congrats to both your guys! S1 has not made one peep about graduation preparations, though he did look at the webpage before he left for the fall to see that he didn’t need to do anything yet.</p>
<p>S1 has started asking about budgeting and health coverage, 401(k)s, etc. He and GF are trying to get a grasp of what they need to do. S2 has been asking these questions around the campfire on family camping trips since he was a soph in HS.</p>
<p>Don’t think there will be graduation announcements, portraits, etc. We booked rooms at International House on campus, and at some point we’ll need to contemplate what kind of vehicle we’ll need to rent to bring his stuff home. He’ll leave right after graduation to spend a couple months with the GF in the UK before starting work in September (and hopefully she will have a job/visa and return with him as well!).</p>
<p>Sounds like your S2 is way ahead of his time, CD. Congrats to you too!</p>
<p>S1 is the theoretical one…lives with his head in the clouds. S2 is my realist. :)</p>