<p>sorry guys if I can’t just copy and paste it’s too high tech for me! but congrats on all that have mastered the quotes!</p>
<p>a bit envious of those who can get college stuff for Easter goodies…even tho we’re not doing much this year at all it would have been a fun option alas we are still onboard the boat!
D1 is NOT a school shirt wearer at all but I may buy her one from whatever school she finally picks and bribe her to wear it at her HS before she;s done there. Then it can be a sleep shirt!</p>
<p>Congrats to aria and momofzach for their disembarkation from the SS Indecision. Also, congrats to everyone that I missed the past couple of days on their walk down the gangplank and onto dry college campus ground.</p>
<p>The crowds on deck are thinning out as the last two weeks of this cruise are coming to an end. I am just glad I have a great First Officer who can steer the ship while I partake in all of the congratulatory drinks! :D</p>
<p>Exciting news on all fronts! Momofzach, I’ve heard great things about Lebanon Valley. A friend of mine has a son that is just finishing his freshman year and his parents say he loves it.</p>
<p>Aria - congrats on the MIT decision. I hope you’ll keep posting so we can hear first hand (second hand?) about any new pranks!</p>
<p>Has anyone ever pushed their kids off the SS Indecision? Son is thisclose to deciding and I just want to be done with it so I can make hotel reservations for the parent visit weekend in the fall and let the seamstress get started on his t-shirt quilt that needs the college logo for a panel! Of course, those reasons are so trivial to the big picture that I am keeping my thoughts to myself!</p>
<p>Sadly, I’m one of those who hasn’t been able to figure out the quote function. I have now printed MOSB’s instructions and will give it a try. Hoping I’m not the only one who can’t figure out how to do this!</p>
<p>No decision here yet. We spent 2 days at an accepted student event Sun/Mon and I think the list is now down to 2. But it seems that we’re aboard the dinghy with only one oar and we keep using it only on one side of the boat. I feel as if we’re paddling and paddling but not getting anywhere, just out in the vast sea spinning in circles. Ah well, decision day is approaching, so we can’t stay out here much longer. Can we??</p>
<p>Off to see if I can upload pictures to Shutterfly. I’ve loved seeing all of yours!</p>
<p>LAND HO!!! Not officially getting off just yet, but close. DS#2, who I thought really <em>had</em> made a decision but was just not announcing anything, was e-mailing me about something else yesterday and then in the middle of it all sent the message, “deposit at XXX”. So like him. I’m out of town until tomorrow and said we’d sit down together when I get home and make it more official.</p>
<p>For some reason this doesn’t feel quite as definite as with DS#1 a couple of years ago. DS#2 is still on a few waitlists I know he’s interested in. OTOH, I whispered the possible decision to a friend of mine yesterday. She called me yesterday evening–her favorite pastime is shopping at the Salvation Army and she stumbled into and bought me a “XXX Parent” T-shirt yesterday! How weird is that? We live three states away. We’re both thinking it’s a sign!!</p>
<p>Good morning and congratulations to those that are not dismenbarking the SS Indecision - giddy is exactly the word I would use to describe how we felt when we had a decision…it is now followed by anxiety knowing D will be leaving in a few short months along with indigestion as I begin to write check after check…</p>
<p>So, last night D2 who is currently a sophmore said, “OK she i done, now it is my turn. Where are we going tomorrow?” </p>
<p>Instead of the elation I should be feeling that she is excited and showing interest, I just can’t get myself to shift gears and start all over again. This process has been so draining I don’t think I have fully recovered. The good news is that at least I know what I am doing…</p>
<p>momofboston - well we can both hop over to the '13 thread together, I am in the same boat. This is my dd1 who is a whole 'nother can of worms and I am not ready to go there!!! But there are her classmates taking sat prep over spring break, visiting colleges…omg it all starts again??? Luckily I dragged her with us and she has definate preferences and major not like ds.</p>
<p>I have to laugh at the t-shirt in the Easter basket idea. Because we have season tickets for football and it is my alma mater, our son has so many t-shirts from Mizzou that that he could wear one a day and not have to do laundry for about two weeks. Half of them black, half gold. Some with evil sentiments about kansas.</p>
<p>Yet, I imagine that when we go to campus on Friday, we will buy yet one more! The Alumni Association has an on-campus chapter that students join (True Tigers) and they get a different t-shirt for each home football game for $5. His school wardrobe will be half Mizzou/half Think Geek.</p>
<p>Looking forward to meeting the Vice Chancellor of Resarch who is a graduate of our local high school. Many people have told him and told us that our son reminds them of the vice chancellor in his high school years. He earned his degree in nuclear engineering from that school in Cambridge that shall not be named–except to congratulate aria’s son for choosing it!</p>
<p>Same here! D2 knows what she wants to do and it should be easier this time around EXCEPT D2 can be difficult on just about everything. I have also dragged her along with us to a few but “she doesn’t remember” She is taking drivers ed this week and has started some test prep (1 hr every other week) but I just can’t get my mind wrapped around it…</p>
<p>We’re still at sea- waves at all my fellow passengers. I asked D yesterday if she’d made any decisions and she said, “Nah”. So I moved on. I actually think it comes down to moving away from home- she has to decide if she can do it or not. I don’t care which of the two options so will have credit card in hand on May 1st, asking which she wants…It could also be that this is her vacation week so she will deal with the decision next week. It’s all fine- the company on the boat is lovely. :D</p>
<p>Any 2015 parents here? My daughter is already working on a college list-and sadly for me there are a couple of high reach (yes Ivy) schools on there. I told her it is way to early to be doing this. She has already picked her schedule for the four years of HS so she will be ready to take tests as needed and graduate with the most rigorous schedule and a certificate from the finance academy at the school. She is a very driven, very focused young lady and will not cause me a fraction of the angst her brother has.</p>
<p>If I had a sophomore like momofboston wanting to make visits this week I don’t think I could manage it-I mean yes, it’s been draining and yes-not fully recovered here yet either.</p>
<p>amanda I remember that prank they pulled at the football game-what year was that??</p>
<p>It appears that I may not be done with this college search process for a while. Looks like the school district is going to allow me to be a resource person (as a volunteer for now) for parents of gifted students in our high school.</p>
<p>Our college counselor concentrates on helping the first generation students–or those whose parents went to college locally–with the admissions process. And rightly so. But parents of the gifted kids have been left to their own resources. Many had no idea about the possibilities for the PSAT to turn into NM money, what schools gives good merit aid, IB vs AP for credit, etc. And our school profile really needs a total revamp.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine having one child finish this process and then having to immediately move on to the next. I think that would cause me to wander around my home laughing (in the insane way of course). </p>
<p>I, too, have not mastered quoting but I am going to give it a try one day when I have a few extra minutes. I am also going to finally put some pictures up on Shutterfly after the Prom in a few weeks. DS is notorious for not wanting to have his picture taken.</p>
<p>Yesterday we sat with DS and had the hard fast facts talk about college expenses and expectations. Things like “you need to keep that minimum GPA for your scholarship because we can’t/won’t make up the difference if you don’t” and I told him I felt like a mother bird pushing her baby out of the nest and looking from above as it struggled to launch itself. (I’m a teacher-analogies make me happy!) And, in his typical DS way and without missing a beat, he replied “So what happens if a predator comes along and eats me?” ZING - right to the core of my parent of an only child heart. I just shook my head as he laughed. I wonder if sarcasm counts as a foreign language because he speaks it so fluently?</p>
<p>I imagine he and DH will need to have a talk about communicating with mom (and not feeding her fears) when he heads off to college.</p>
<p>Momofboston - This is the girl who always is the last to order because she can’t decide, and then picks the same thing she always does.
Pepper - '15 class dd2 is right behind dd1. We are going to be together for a long long time!!!</p>
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