S’s last exam today - 2 music recitals.
Job on campus all summer with student orientations sprinkled in that plus the welcome week in August.
We’re heading Stateside for 3 weeks in the summer and he’s joining us for 2. Can’t wait.
He says - via Skype - that’s he’s had a great year and definitely made the right choice.
Happy child - Happy parent!
@burghdad and @Genevieve18 . . . .yes, so much later start and end times than most of yours!
We took advantage of the late start date (end of September) before school started to have a fantastic overseas trip last year. It was so nice to be able to avoid crowds and score very inexpensive airfare compared to flying during the summer months. I have my fingers crossed that my younger son will end up on a similar schedule when he starts college for a few more easily-scheduled family trips.
My D has been home a week. She earned her BSPS and has two years of pharmacy school left. She is doing a hospital internship later this summer.
My S has the last musical performance tonight, he is in the ensemble, so a lot of dancing. Then finals and juries next week.
No summer classes, he needs to come home and work, and he will participate in a musical production at the local theater.
D is moving him out. This is the first time I’m not helping with move-out.
I am visiting my parents and get to spend mother’s day and my dad’s birthday with them.
I didn’t think I would be able to go, but D insisted that she can handle everything.
My DD is officially done on Tuesday. But, she has been back home off and on for the past week she just runs back to campus to take her exams. Since we moved closer to her school, we are a bit over an hour away, back in Feburary it is convenient for her to get home whenever she wants. I have to say it has been a very easy move out of the dorm process, with small loads coming home over the past month. She is going back this weekend to go to a friend’s ring dunk party.
It has generally been a successful year, just a few minor bumps along the way! She switched her major from a BS to a BA in Psychology (lol, huge change right?); and has decided to pick up a pre-law certificate, which is basically a philosophy minor. I think she has set law school as a target. It looks like she will be finishing up her undergrad in spring 2021, so a year earlier than we expected. She taking 3 courses for this summer - Intro to Logic, as a 3 week Maymester class, and 2 online: Texas Government (which is required of all college students attending a TX public University) and Technical Business Writing; all 3 classes meet core requirements and then she will be done with her core subjects! She has found a few organizations that she is happy to participate in regularly and was selected to take on a sophomore leadership role in one next year.
No exciting internship, jobs or study abroad lined up this summer, as it looks like she will be having an orthopedic surgery at the beginning of June which will have her laid up for about 8 weeks.
Overall she seems to have found her footing academically and socially and is happy that she selected Texas A&M. Which is all we can really ask for as parents, right?!
(My 2016 DD comes home on May 11. She is scheduled for knee surgery on May 16. She is bummed that she had to come home this summer, as she has been living pretty much full-time at school since her sophomore year. She will be taking that dreaded college course - OChem- at our local CC while she is recovering. Not gonna lie, I am sort of happy to have her home one last summer; time sure flies!)
S will be home Tuesday. Monday is his last final. He’s shipping home things and will fly home with just suitcases.
S18 will be home Sunday to drop off his stuff and then on Monday and flies out to CA to visit his GF for a few weeks . He was selected as an alternate for the CLS in China so he was kinda keeping things open for that but it doesn’t look like that’s going to pan out. He’s applied for a summer program in Korea which would be covered by his scholarship but I don’t know if he’s been accepted or not. I’d be just as happy for him to spend some time at home!
My D flies home tonight…hopefully! She is sitting at the airport now and her flight keeps getting delayed! Can’t believe Freshman year is done. She had a great year (in spite of one very unstable suite-mate who caused unimaginable trouble), loves her school and has had lots of success including finishing with a 4.0…very proud of her!
S is figuring out how to see his GF over the summer. She lives close to Ithaca, so she’s pretty far away from us. She may be coming down here; her parents take her part of the way, and we pick her up. That’s better than having a GF back home and going to school far away. He’s already met her parents. I’m sure they were wondering why she stopped coming home every weekend. 
S has his last final on May 9. He gets to relax for about 10 days and then he gets his wisdom teeth out.
Ow!!
@Momma2018 I wish your son well. We had all of D18’s removed a month before she went off to Amherst. She was miserable for a solid 4 days. Actually, the entire household was if we are being honest. So much so, that the younger one said she would never do it. I told her she better hope she is like the Inuit’s who have remarkably low rates of wisdom teeth. Well, what do you know? At her last dentist appointment, not a wisdom tooth to be found. A dental miracle!
23 hours is a long, long way to drive home.
@mommdc , we did not help with move out either this year. A few hiccups but he managed to get home despite a car so stuffed he could not see out the back and a 3 hr loss of time to turn around and retrieve his drivers license. My son had juries last week. So stressful! Hope your son crushes it.
@davidpuddy. You have me beat! I’m “only” 19 hours.
Went and picked up daughter over the weekend. Did 10 hours drive 2 days in a row. It is great to have her home. Please excuse the bragging parent…but … she was sweating out a grade in an Econ course and she got a 99 on her take home final so she managed to eek out a 91 keeping her 4.0 in place. So proud of her 19 credits and a part time job and still managed to make all A’s.
@burghdad Congrats to your girl! That is a very nice way to finish off that first year. No apologies for bragging. This is where we welcome it! (at least I do) Anyone else? 
@vistajay Thanks! He has been sick so I’m hoping he can sing, and get done with his finals and get some rest.
My S18 is done! He had a rough fall semester, but bounced back nicely with a 4.0 Spring semester!
Brag away on those grades, they worked hard to get where they are - brag, brag and brag!
My student pulled a 4.0 this semester which I was reminded included the last of the heavy sciences/math as they have switched from astrophysics to art history. First semester was a 3.8, this semester a 4.0
The most important to me is that my student seems to have finally found their path, is happy and enjoying their college experience.
Here’s my brag, DS was just awarded a very competitive scholarship from my DH’s multi-national employer:-)