Parents of the HS Class of 2012 - New beginnings

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<p>Here we go! We've left high school drama, SAT scores, AP study guides, and 6:45 alarm clocks behind! Here's to four (or more?!) years ahead of texts asking for more money, profs who don't follow the syllabus, and shopping for summer storage!</p>

<p>My hope is that all of our kids go out into the world and try new things, keep integrity in all of their relationships, stay up until 4:00 am figuring out the meaning of life, and step out of their comfort zone some. All while studying really hard. :)</p>

<p>Welcome to all the veterans of this thread: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/658245-parents-high-school-class-2012-a.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/658245-parents-high-school-class-2012-a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>And welcome to anyone just jumping in!</p>

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<p>This is an exciting new thread and chapter for all of us AND mostly for our kiddos. </p>

<p>Here’s hoping we all survive the transition and most importantly our kids are happy and thrive at their new schools!!!</p>

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<p>^ditto that. I have been absent from “our” other thread for a while, and that’s a story for another time. </p>

<p>My best wishes to all the parents and students on the next stop on the journey.</p>

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<p>Exciting times ahead for us all!! Hello!!</p>

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<p>Moved this over so it’s easier to reference.</p>

<p>ALREADY LAUNCHED!
7/15 huxleyalum S1</p>

<p>STILL TO LAUNCH:
8/08 weatherga’s D
8/11 vlines’s S, TX12DanceMom’s D, RTRMom2’s S
8/14 Debbie7452’s D, Lilmom’s D
8/15 familyof3boys’ S, woody35’s D, MeteorMom’s S, geogirl’s S, hsmom2dncrs’ S
8/16 jackief’2 D, psychmomma’s D
8/17 ReneeD7’s D, Oldfort’s D2, michal1’s D, Chrissyblu’s D, Tebow1’s D, 911C2S’s S
8/18 annasdad’s D, MizzBee’s S. Rushedmom’s D
8/19 kleibo’s S, mspearl’s D, nervousnellie1’s S, PinotNoir’s S
8/20 jmnva06’s D, showmom858’s D
8/21 college_query’s S, momsings S
8/22 Mom2M’s D, kc1214mom’s D, Sunshinestatemom’s D, WalkingTessie’s D, Itsthatime’s S, student2D’s S, JenPam’s DS, ohiobassmom’s S
8/23 eyemamom’s S, Lakemom’s S, PNWedwonk’s S, 1012mom’s D
8/24 mimk6’s S, Bucasmom’s S, MommyMommy’s D
8/25 MathinOKC’s D; Mom0809’s S; pacnwmomof2’s S, seiclan’s S, JenPam’s DD
8/26 marciemi’s S, kathieh1’s D, disneygals’ D, notakid’s D
8/27 Glido’s D, maidenMom’s D
8/28 rerunagain’s S, chemusic’s S
8/29 downtoearth’s D
8/30 Gwen Fairfax’ D
9/01 jaylynn’s D, saintfan’s D, giterdone’s D, Mary13’s D, MAOnemom’s D
9/05 absweetmarie’s D, dentmom4’s D huxleyalum S2
9/12 northernwoods S
9/18 Mom2jl’s S
9/20 SteveC’s S, pcaz’s S</p>

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<p>Thank you, PinotNoir, for graduating us! It did make my heart lurch a little.</p>

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<p>It’s hard to believe the 2016’s are starting to launch.</p>

<p>D has found her roommate and the other two suitemates on FB. All the girls are from New York or New Jersey so she will be known as the girl from SoCal which I told her will help her stand out!</p>

<p>We have lots of clearing out to do before we begin packing. Good luck to all launching this week.</p>

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<p>I guess you all should add my D to the August 24 launch date. We’re driving and visiting some family on the way, so we leave home earlier. And we will return to an empty nest since D2 will be at boarding school How strange.</p>

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<p>Added daughters of IJustDrive and KarGaro</p>

<p>ALREADY LAUNCHED!
7/15 huxleyalum S1</p>

<p>STILL TO LAUNCH:
8/08 weatherga’s D
8/11 vlines’s S, TX12DanceMom’s D, RTRMom2’s S
8/14 Debbie7452’s D, Lilmom’s D
8/15 familyof3boys’ S, woody35’s D, MeteorMom’s S, geogirl’s S, hsmom2dncrs’ S
8/16 jackief’2 D, psychmomma’s D
8/17 ReneeD7’s D, Oldfort’s D2, michal1’s D, Chrissyblu’s D, Tebow1’s D, 911C2S’s S
8/18 annasdad’s D, MizzBee’s S. Rushedmom’s D
8/19 kleibo’s S, mspearl’s D, nervousnellie1’s S, PinotNoir’s S
8/20 jmnva06’s D, showmom858’s D
8/21 college_query’s S, momsings S
8/22 Mom2M’s D, kc1214mom’s D, Sunshinestatemom’s D, WalkingTessie’s D, Itsthatime’s S, student2D’s S, JenPam’s DS, ohiobassmom’s S
8/23 eyemamom’s S, Lakemom’s S, PNWedwonk’s S, 1012mom’s D
8/24 mimk6’s S, Bucasmom’s S, MommyMommy’s D, IJustDrive’s D
8/25 MathinOKC’s D; Mom0809’s S; pacnwmomof2’s S, seiclan’s S, JenPam’s DD, KarGaro’s D
8/26 marciemi’s S, kathieh1’s D, disneygals’ D, notakid’s D
8/27 Glido’s D, maidenMom’s D
8/28 rerunagain’s S, chemusic’s S
8/29 downtoearth’s D
8/30 Gwen Fairfax’ D
9/01 jaylynn’s D, saintfan’s D, giterdone’s D, Mary13’s D, MAOnemom’s D
9/05 absweetmarie’s D, dentmom4’s D huxleyalum S2
9/12 northernwoods S
9/18 Mom2jl’s S
9/20 SteveC’s S, pcaz’s S</p>

<p>1012mom’s D - Tufts University
5boys S - St. Lawrence University
911C2S - Bucknell University
absweetmarie’s D - Kalamazoo College
amtc D - Knox College
Angry Dad’s D - U of Chicago
annasdad’s D - Truman State University
AnotherFSUdad’s D - U of Alabama Honors College
bbarty - Macalester
BeeZeeMom S - U of California at San Diego
bhmamacita D - Wesleyan University
BluePoodle D - Case Western Reserve University
BobWallace D - Agnes Scott College
Bucasmom S - U of Connecticut
Cal1983 S - William & Mary
CalmlyiChaotic D - Sewanee, The University of the South
Chardo S - U of Alabama
cheekymonkey S - Tufts
chemusic S - Vassar College
Chrissyblu’s D - UC Berkeley
cindymoose Twin A - MIT
collconf01 D - Kenyon College
college<em>query S - Bowdoin College
commasplice S - Columbia University
Cortana431 - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
CPUscientist3000 - Harvard
Creekland S - U of Rochester
Debbie7452 D - Texas A&M
dentmom4 D - Kalamazoo College
disneygals D - Adelphi
downtoearth D - Northeastern
dwhite D - Wake Forest
ELKyes S - College of Charleston Honors
Everythingbut S - Lafayette
eyeamamom S - U of Rochester
familyof3boys S - Hiram
fiddlinmom S - College of Wooster
forthree D - Case Western
fourkidsmom D - NYU Tisch
fredricksdottir S - U of Chicago
gaelicbred D - Kenyon
GeminiMom D1 - Northwestern
GeminiMom D2 - Cornell
geogirl1 S - U of Miami
giterdone D - U of St Thomas
Glido’s D - Wellesley
Gourmetmom S - Harvard
gradygrad D - NYU
Gwen Fairfax D - The Hartt School (@ Univ of Hartford)
hawkeyes55’s S - Temple U.
Highbury D - U of Chicago
hookedondwd S - Rochester Institute of Technology
hsmom2dncrs S - U of Notre Dame
hutch14 D - Carleton
HuxleyAlum S1 - Rose-Hulman
HuxleyAlum S2 - Knox College
IJustDrive D - Yale University
Illyria’s D - St. Mary’s College of MD
intouch1520’s D - Syracuse University
Itsthatime S - Columbia University
jackief D - Case Western Reserve University
jasper44 D - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jaylynn’s D - University of San Diego
JenPam D - U of Maryland
JenPam S - U of Maryland
jmnva06 D - Beloit
jupiter1 S - U of Chicago
Kandjad D - U of Alabama
KareninCA D - Lewis and Clark
KarGaro D - Towson University
kathieh1 D - Pomona
kc1214mom D - Syracuse
Kleibo S - Carnegie Mellon
kttmom S - William & Mary
Lakemom S - University of Rochester
Lark123 D - Pomona
lilmom D - Morehead State
linnylu D - U of Alabama
lisabees S - Oberlin
lovemykids2 S - U of Alabama
maidenMom D - Wellesley
MAOnemom D - Princeton
marciemi S - MIT
Mary13 D - U of St Thomas
MASSMOM1 D - Purdue
mathinokc D - Olin
MemphisGuy S - U of Alabama
MeteorMom S - Univ of Miami
MidwestMom2Kids</em> S - U of Mississippi
mihcal1 D - UC Berkeley
mimk6 S - Yale
Missread D - U of Alabama
MizzBee S - Wabash
Mom0809 S - Sewanee, The University of the South
Mom2jl S - Stanford
Mom2M D - USC
Mom60 D - UC Davis
MommyMommy D - U of Vermont
momof2inma S - Tufts
Momsie D - NYU Florence
momsings S - Chapman University
mother<em>of</em>perl’s T1 - Yale
mother<em>of</em>perl’s T2 - MIT
mspearl’s D - Ohio State
Mutti2012 S - U of Chicago
NDSmom S - U of Alabama
nearandfar S - University of Notre Dame
nervousnellie1 S - Ohio State
newtothismom D - Bryant University
NJMom23 S - Cornell
nly2012 S - Lewis and Clark
northernwoods S - Northwestern
notakid’s D - Barnard
NWMom2 D - Case Western Reserve University
ohiobassmom’s S - Capital University (conservatory of music)
ohksaj04 D - Denison
oldfort D - Cornell
pacnwmomof2 S - Colorado College
pamayawaa D - WUSTL
partyoffour’s D1 - Denison
pathways D - Umass Lowell
pcaz S - Northwestern Univ
performersmom D - Yale
pghmomof2 S - University of Oklahoma
PinotNoir S - U of Rochester
PNWedwonk S - U of Rochester
PRJ D - NYU
Proudmama3 S - U of Alabama
psychmom S - NYU
Psychmomma D - Southern Illinois University
pullinghair D - Duke
rayrick D - Olin
ReneeD7’s D - Tulane
rerunagain S - Swarthmore
rescue23 D - Willamette University
rushedmom D - Texas A&M
S2012d2017 S - Davidson
Sactonative S - U of Alabama
saintfan D - St Olaf
sbjdorlo S - MIT
seiclan S - Emory
sewhappy D - Princeton
shootingsilver - U of Chicago
showmom858 D - FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology)
skibum4 S - MIT
Sniner D - U of Alabama
Snowdog D - USC
SnowflakeVT S - St. Lawrence U
SoClose S - Bryant University
solat10 D - U of Alabama
SteveC S - Northwestern University
stressed56 D - College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA)
student4ever S - Harvard
sujormik D - Northeastern University
sunmachine S2 - Willamette
Sunshinestatemom D - Florida State University
talaria D - Univ of Pennsylvania
Tebow1 D - Univ of Notre Dame
Texaspg D - Stanford
The3bears D - Yale
tozubri D - Franklin & Marshall
tozubri S1 - RIT
tozubri S2 - U of New Hampshire
vlines S - U of Alabama
WalkingTessie D - Syracuse University
wdaveo S - U of Alabama
weatherga D - U of Georgia
Woody35 D - Earlham College
xxjcat - U of Alabama
Yalemom16 S - Yale
ypcccu S - Princeton</p>

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<p>D is busy meeting new college friends (facebook really changes things from "meet your roommate on move in day), while spending time with high school friends and family. It’s exciting and stressful!</p>

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<p>14 days and counting. So sad our family of 5 will be no more on a regular basis. So happy because DS has a bright future and will have a wonderful 4 years. So happy. So sad. So happy…</p>

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<p>We are all moving on! Went to a meet up in my state last nite for the U of Roch freshman class of 2016 so we parents could meet and the students could too. So it is time for this group to enter college mode!</p>

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<p>Dawned on me at dinner last night that there will be an empty chair at our table. Now THAT hit me harder than most of the other reminders of his impending launch!!!</p>

<p>But happier thoughts. Got something from the Parents Council today! Not “just” a form letter, but tailored to us since he’s a double legacy kid. (It will be interesting to find out how many others there are.) Still waiting on roommate assignment!</p>

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<p>geogirl1 wrote:

I like to think of it in terms of the nuclear family decreasing in order that the extended family might one day increase. It’s all in the spin. :)</p>

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<p>Fingers crossed that 4 years means 4 years (without grad school ;))</p>

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<p>Yes - I remember it hitting me hard when I set the table for just 4 people the first time!</p>

<p>Lakemom - wish we could have done a meet up, but none were close enough. And really, we are all so busy right now!</p>

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<p>Our meetup was great for letting D get a little more excited about school. It was definitely worth the drive, though it would have been nice to be a little closer. </p>

<p>A month from today I’ll be flying home sans my baby. I know I get her a little longer than many of you. But it still hurts me. </p>

<p>Hugs to all of us who are letting go in the next couple of weeks!!</p>

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<p>Woot! Thanks for starting the transition PN!</p>

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<p>today is my S’s 18th birthday -he is my youngest. This, coupled with his leaving for college, has me all emotional today. I can’t believe my children areall technically adults…Does not seem possible. He is in a great state of mind and very eager, yet appropriately nervous, for the start of school. I am going to miss him.</p>

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<p>I’m hawkeyes55, my son is going off to Temple (Not private, not ancient, and not religious, even though everyone I’ve talked to seems to think it’s all of those 3 things) on August 23rd could someone add my S to the list?</p>

<p>Also my S had a bit of drama in regards to whether he should go or not, but I’ll just leave that to the other thread. Seems quite high-schoolish.</p>

<p>So yeah, I’m looking forward to him going off and exploring his interests, even if he isn’t 100% convinced.</p>