Parents of the HS Class of 2009 (Part 1)

<p>Sigh…MIL and SIL have volunteered to take my my girls shopping for their dorm rooms. I am graciously accepting their sweet offer but am a little sad. Harriet we were planning the BB&B Pack and Hold option. Will suggest that MIL and SIL take that option as well.</p>

<p>How long ahead of move-in do you make your initial choices?</p>

<p>expecting housing info later this month</p>

<p>No clue about computers but MIL is getting those for girls for grad gift. She has even less clue but will consult the resident expert, my nephew who also attends SMC.</p>

<p>I think D will know within a week or so about Scripps.</p>

<p>Woke up this a.m. at about 3:00 after a dream that I was leading my kids down a tunnel and when we got to the end we learned we were inside a dam and I almost fell into the turbine. They were able to safely get out but I when I woke up I was trying to decide if I should let go and follow. Any interpretations?</p>

<p>Really! Despite the expiration date(s), BB&B honors their coupons. And despite the “one per visit” fine print, they’ve always let me pile them on, too.</p>

<p>egads! 4 pages already?! i am late to EVERYTHING!</p>

<p>but oh so happy to be here - i could not have done it without all of you :)</p>

<p>Thanks HMW, that makes sense. Off to Twitter I go…</p>

<p>Are your kids freaked out that their parents are on FB & Twitter? Mine are split. My D is ok w/ it and allowed me to be her friend but my S is having nothing to do w/ me. I do a friend request once every two weeks or so but he always rejects me. I told him all I want for my birthday next week is to be his FB friend… hahahaha… quilt him into it :D</p>

<p>My older two invited me to follow them both on Twitter, but we aren’t Facebook friends, and I’m okay with that.</p>

<p>D frequently sends me FB pictures (you can share them with non-FB people, or people you’re not FB friends with, through a particular link), though I’m sure she’s editing her collection heavily.</p>

<p>uh, hmom, I’m no Dr. Freud, but tunnels are associated with transitions and births…Any transitions going on in your house? ;)</p>

<p>We got the linen purchase package flyer too, and I think S’s school may be the only college that doesn’t participate! </p>

<p>Feels like we’re just in the calm before the next storm around here. His last AP exam (hooray!) is tomorrow, and he’s mentally DONE. I’m not sure what his teachers are doing as far as finals, but hopefully not much. He goes to a freshman preview overnight the end of June, and the rest of summer is still up in the air. I’m leaning to letting him totally relax, but that’s a lot of gaming time!</p>

<p>I’m considering the new student pack linen package that the college D is going to has. Price seems right and no running around. She seems good with it too although we haven’t yet really looked at the colors and when we do there will probably be nothing she likes. Currently though it sounds like the right thing to do.</p>

<p>All this talk of buying linens and tension rods and last AP exams is making me want to cry. Can I go back to the 09 thread? I’m not ready for college!</p>

<p>I am definitely not ready for twitter or facebook. I can barely keep up with cc and market news. </p>

<p>H thinks we can use S1’s sheets for S2 since he is out of dorm now and using a regular bed. I need to dig down to the bottom of the linen closet and try to find them. By the way, we put a nice long slash in a brand new twin comforter on move-in day for S1 by using a box cutter to cut something or other on the newly made bed. Luckily, I had my sewing kit with me but that damage very nearly caused me to have a total melt-down. S1 of course didn’t care.</p>

<p>Good morning all. Wow–so happy to see everyone here. Someone suggested we put our HS '09 thread at the top of this one so that we can find it easily over the years:o–is there still a way to do this?</p>

<p>Posting on this new thread is making me teary - what in the world am I going to be like come August? Wait, no more nagging, no more fighting to get S out of bed, no more eye rolls, a clean bedroom, and hopefully a happy young man entering adulthood. I’ll be thrilled!</p>

<p>Huh? I go to sleep, go to work, and this is what happens? We’ve graduated?</p>

<p>S and I have been looking at laptops - no Dells! I’ve suffered through Dell customer service and never, ever, ever want to repeat that experience. I think S will probably go with an HP.</p>

<p>I’m also looking at memory foam mattress toppers. But nobody ever bought me a mattress topper when I went to college! Did they even exist back then?</p>

<p>Twitter-free and proud of it, but I am on Facebook. H just joined last weekend.</p>

<p>Not a 2013er but I thought I would advise those considering the linen packages to check out prior years’ threads. Many posters in the past have not been happy with the price and/or quality.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/530177-school-sponsored-dorm-supply-packages.html?highlight=sheets+package[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/530177-school-sponsored-dorm-supply-packages.html?highlight=sheets+package&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>There’s also a good thread stickied at the top of the cafe regarding shopping lists.</p>

<p>I am keeping an eye on the JMU waitlist for two of S2’s friends, but that forum appears to be pretty defunct. Historically they have taken around 1/3 of their waitlist–several hundred kids–so I think S’s friends should have a good shot. Not sure on the timing though. Is anybody here waiting on a JMU waitlist call?</p>

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Woke up this a.m. at about 3:00 after a dream that I was leading my kids down a tunnel and when we got to the end we learned we were inside a dam and I almost fell into the turbine. They were able to safely get out but I when I woke up I was trying to decide if I should let go and follow. Any interpretations?

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You led them through. It’s a little scary at the end, but they’re out safe and on to the next thing. And now you’re hovering there at the edge, watching them, trying to decide whether to follow them out. Doesn’t seem too mysterious, really, although I’m not sure what the dam means… something personal to you?</p>

<p>geek_son told me last night that he was worried that I would hover too much, and worried that I wouldn’t hover enough. We made a deal that he can text me freely with things like, “Please send food/money/quarters/my interview suit/a clean change of clothes,” as long as he sends periodic status updates – and if I have the status updates, I won’t worry and therefore won’t hover. Yeah, we’ll see how that works out. :o</p>

<p>I am so not ready for dorm shopping.</p>

<p>Made airline reservations for D and I to Florida next month. Spirit Air had less expensive tickets in “first class” than “coach”. Weird. I purchased 2 “first class” tickets to Florida (her one-way, me round-trip).</p>

<p>I told D she was flying first class to Florida for school. It sounded so special, the only perks I think are bigger seats and you get to arrive and depart the plane before anyone else. Oh, and we were able to select our seats for FREE!</p>

<p>Now if they would only allow us FREE baggage, or at least the 1st bag, we’d be set! I hate having to pay $19 for each piece of checked luggage.</p>

<p>What shipping company is the least expensive?? I’m thinking of shipping stuff she wants instead of lugging suitcases.</p>

<p>This is what I tell my kids… If you don’t throw me a bone once in a while, I will have to go digging. And they are very much aware that if I start to dig, I am sure to uncover something they wish I hadn’t. Now… how this will apply to S being at college, I am not sure, but I am hopeful that he has learned that merely texting me or giving me a call once and awhile is pretty much all it takes to keep me happy. I look at it this way… his having a cell phone makes my odds of hearing from him far more certain vs his having to search out a pay phone like we did in college!</p>

<p>Most of our friends last year shipped UPS. I however would check with the school to see how they handle packages of such size and scope. Some schools deliver to dorms and some schools would have you going to the nearest federal post office or UPS center to collect.</p>

<p>I have actually cried thinking of my eldest son leaving for college. He is so ready though, I’m the one in mourning. He’s going to Northwestern (Chicago) and we live in New Jersey, so there will be no pop ins and no him coming home just for a good meal and laundry. Most likely when he goes, he won’t be back till the Christmas break. We talked about him coming home for the Thanksgiving break, but I told him that if he wanted to just use that time to sleep, catch up on homework or studies, that he could just stay out there if he wanted. Northwestern is on the quarter system, so the semeter is very short and rushed and he may need that time to regroup before finals and papers. It just killed me to tell him that though. We will be out there the last weekend in October for Family Weekend, but that’s it. Good Luck everyone. It’s such a wonderful journey that we are all on and I just can’t wait to see how it all unfolds.</p>