mstomper, what great news for your son!
Fantastic, MStomper!!
DD is home for Fall Break this weekend, itâs been 6 months, too long!
Enjoy @labegg
DS16 has committed to SENIOR year off campus housing. Wow! Saying that feels weird.
@Cheeringsection We did the same thing earlier this month. And yesterday DS had his advising session for his spring semesterâbut much of the talk was to plan out the rest of his courses from now until graduation!! Eek! I swear I was just there for parents weekend when he was a freshman.
@Cheeringsection DS16 is meeting with his advisor today about schedule. Itâs so hard to believe that he has more time in than he has left to complete.
I agree @carolinamom2boys and @zipstermom ! DS also recently did advising for spring and planning to ensure he is still on track for major and minor completion. I am very pleased with his experience thus far and think he chose just the right school, for him. I encourage all to shop until they can do the same. Going through the shopping with DD20 right now.
Our S now with adviser ensuring path to major/minor. S is considering entering the Coterm program to start MS sequence in his undergrad senior year. Still undecided on that.
DD did advising this week too and announced sheâll be graduating December 2019 (a semester early) with a BS in Meteorology and minors in Math and Comp Sci. She said it wasnât worth it too wait another semester to finish her minor in German as she feels the two remaining classes are more busy work for her at this point. Sheâs started to study for her GRE and says she plans on grad school but thatâs still very up in the air at this point. Although she has been very happy with OU for undergrad she says she doesnât want to continue grad school at OU which Iâm not thrilled about since she has a five year scholarship that can be applied to grad school. I think the internship she ends up in this summer will strongly influence the direction she takes.
S has been working on an interesting project alongside a group of PhD candidates since early 2018. Their research paper has been accepted by conference for publication. Heâs elated!
DS16 turns 21 today. Heading to Charleston to celebrate.
Happy day to you, @carolinamom2boys. Happy birthday to your son.
@Waiting2exhale thank you. Hope everyone is well at your house.
Ooh 21! Thatâs a big one. Hope the celebration was fantastic @carolinamom2boys 
I hope you enjoyed your celebration @carolinamom2boys ! Unfortunately 21 may be the first birthday that we will not get to celebrate with DS16âat least not close to the actual day. I will be sad but understand that he will be elsewhere.
It was a very nice weekend everyone.
@carolinamom2boys: Thanks for that. Yes, we are all well, generally.
I have one last kid to scoot out of the door in '20, and then Iâm going toâŠhmmm, donât know. What does one do after theyâve all gone?
S arrived late last night for Thanksgiving break! This is particularly nice since the Stanford area was suffering due to all the smoke from the CA fires. Classes were cancelled on Friday.
I was really worried about all the smoke, and the air quality overall. Couldnât understand how the university didnât give the kids a heads-up that they were (actually/finally) considering letting them go.
My kid canât seem to find a flight out with any seats open, and doesnât want to have me book a last-minute hotel room for her if she arrives a day early to her travel destination, so sheâll stay put until the scheduled time to travel. Hope that goes without complication.
I found this at the Stanford site the other night and became rather upset:
https://news.stanford.edu/2018/11/15/wildfires-destroying-california-bring-questions-health-climate/
At a multi-disciplinary briefing on âFire and the Future of California Forestsâ in Sacramento in May 2018, Kari
Nadeau, director of the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford, said, âThere is no
safe distance away from a wildfire.â Even in areas where smoke-related particulates arenât visible, they can still
cause cancer, heart damage, immune problems and lung problems.