I can’t imagine wanting to do that, but she will certainly have an experience to remember even if the game itself is forgotten.
Oh, no way would either of my girls have done that. They are not hardy enough. 
I hope she has an absolute blast, @hopewhite25!
@hopewhite25 39 days in a tent…wow that is dedication. I have no skin in that game so for her sake I hope they win. Watching Zion Williamson in person alone might be worth the days in the tent.
@burghdad He is definitely fun to watch. She has went to all the other home game and been in the front row, which since she is barely 5 feet tall, is a good thing. I am sure I will have a harder time finding her tonight. Lol.
@hopewhite25 I hope she had a good time despite the loss. It’s a great day to be a Tar Heel!
S’s birthday today and it is the first year he has not had to spend it at school - on spring break at the moment.
Also the first year he will be experiencing high teens (centigrade) and on a beach at the beginning of March!! (Florida panhandle.)
Can’t see he’ll want to come home in four years!!
I haven’t checked in to this thread in ages it seems. DP Jr is doing well, and enjoying Spring Break this week. Hard to believe he will be in the Freshman year “home stretch” next week, with a completion in EARLY May.
I miss all the excitement from last year!
I’m definitely feeling the quiet of my house and the disconnect from my kid. It seems like we all put so much effort into raising our kids and getting them into college (well, not as much effort as some other parents, wink wink). And then they are off, and managing their own lives and you only get a short call a couple of times a week. It’s as it should be, but it sure is a change. I’m looking forward to my D’s Spring Break in a couple of weeks. She decided to just come home and veg for the week since all her other vacations were so packed. I’m so looking forward to that!
It’s quieter here but since my 2022 kid was my second to go to college it’s been easier than expected to have an empty nest. I hear from both of my kids via text almost every day so I don’t feel too disconnected. 
I do love when they come home for breaks! Next year D1 will be working and will probably be thousands of miles from home for work plus she won’t have these nice periodic “breaks” to come home… that will be hard.
S in on in second semester and already talking about grad school!!
Should I be worried? :((
@Whistlingal that’s good that he seems to have a plan! D18 has not yet settled on a major, much less a career path.
D18 is flying in tomorrow so it will be nice to see her for the week. She’s having a bumpy time with her roomie so the break will be good. They already signed a lease for next year so hopefully it’s just too much togetherness and will blow over.
@Whistlingal In her first semester, my D, with the help of her advisor, worked out a four year degree plan that would set her up well for grad school. Buuuuttttt…now D has a serious boyfriend, and she’s not talking about grad school anymore. So much can happen between now and then!
@ShrimpBurrito and @drewsmom17 Glad to hear your stories. Have only had vague plan messaged me via WhatsApp. Speaking tomorrow so will find out more.
We had told him that we would contribute to first degree but if he did a graduate programme he would have to fund it himself.
Here in the UK that is normally how people do it. Masters & Doctorates are done part-time with the student funding it themselves by working. So, while he is in the US, we are applying the same rules, really. So he has got some serious saving to do - which is where the WhatsApp conversation was going. So considering money flows through his fingers quicker than Niagara Falls I am absolutely amazed he has come up with a savings plan!! College has done some good :))
Will be so glad to have my S home for spring break soon! Definitely missing him at home, though I’ve thrown myself into some new activities so I’m keeping busy outside of work.
He’s had a very intense quarter academically (thankfully, it sounds like next quarter will be less intense), so we’ll be glad to see him get some downtime over break. He just got selected to be a peer adviser for next year, which he really was hoping to do - very pleased for him!
Just put D18 on a plane back to Amherst. Spring break didnt match up with little sister’s but we made the most of it.
I cannot believe how quickly the time has gone by this first year! Moms and dads, we are on the home stretch
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Home stretch for FRESHMAN year. I was talking with parents of a Senior this year and was thinking how happy I am that my kid is only a freshman. There’s still so many things for our kids to explore and take advantage of at college. I wish we could slow down time for them and cram in as many experiences as possible!
Hi guys! It’s spring break here. I’m enjoying having my D home, and, selfishly, the help she’s been chauffeuring my younger kids around.
We haven’t had much of a chance to disconnect @melvin123 (even though she rarely contacts me and is slow to respond to my texts when she’s at school) because she had a strange issue come up and we got to spend several days together dealing with that, including three days together in the hospital. She’s fine, and, many scans and tests later, they think it was probably just an unusual reaction to a virus. I am very thankful she was close to home while all this was going on. And I have to say, the Dean of Students Office and her professors have been very helpful, and she’s been able to get caught up without additional stress. Hopefully, the rest of the semester will be uneventful. [-O<
When I joined CC, I chose the username MACmiracle because we needed a M-erit A-id C-ollege miracle. (The class of 2017 parents used the term MAC a lot to refer to colleges with good merit, and I thought that was cute, especially when they would comment on getting “big MAC” when the scholarship news was coming out.) It felt like a miracle when my D got full tuition, but now it’s happened again: she was just given a position as an RA next year. She will get free housing, a meal plan, a stipend, and will be living in the very building where she wanted to live next year, where her friends will be. Best of all, she will have an apartment to herself, because even with a good roommate, she does better when she has her own space. She knows there will be lots of responsibility with this position, but it’s the kind of thing she has experience with, is good at, and really likes. I couldn’t be more happy for her. I think we appreciate this gift even more because of the other stuff she just went through. :x
Our kids’ breaks just overlapped this weekend. S18 goes back tomorrow. His brother is leaving tomorrow to visit my parents in TN, but will be back late Thursday. A week from tomorrow the nest will be empty again until May, except for S16 coming home the weekend of his birthday in April.
gloating here - I have all 3 of my kids off and home for the same week!!! (3 different colleges in two states and one high school- how lucky am I!!!
@scoutsmom You better buy a lotto ticket. Or 3!!! That’s amazing. Enjoy every minute :x