Fantastic news all around! Agree it is great when they find their path. S18 also seems to have found his path…Brand Management, and fortunately he is at a school that has a great program. He seems well suited for it!
He is home and the move-out was not as difficult as I had pictured. I can’t believe how quickly the year flew by.
I’m leaving a hotel about 45 minutes from campus (try getting a room in Ithaca on move-out weekend) to go pick him up. He said he should be ready to take stuff to the car when I get there; he bases that on the amount of time it took when he helped his gf get her stuff ready yesterday. I guess that means she left already, so I don’t get to meet her yet.
Thankfully Amherst provided storage bins and space on site. She packed up and stored what she isn’t flying home with and is sending a couple of things with her roommate for next year. We won’t be any help to her across the country. So here’s to hoping and praying she finishes strong and stress free!
Waiting for him to vacuum room and turn in key. After that, first year is in the books.
D is done! I took home half of her stuff already but she’ll be in her dorm for a few more days for some training.
She warned me that she won’t get all A’s like last semester because she is struggling with staying focused, and besides that she says she wants to have a life…
All of her activities are very positive so I don’t really know what to say. She’ll be fine as far as her scholarship goes, so I’m not too worried yet. But next year may be rough with all she has taken on. I’m seeing a pattern of overcommitting to good things.
Her plans for this summer seem to have worked out better than expected. She’ll be commuting to work in a research lab on campus.
D has been and gone, she flew back for 5 days last week, and now she’s moved into a different apartment for the summer with some friends and her classes start again on Monday. She’ll have 45 credits by the end of the first half summer session, then she’s doing a dance intensive for 4 weeks, and was even complaining that the system won’t let her sign up for 22 credits next semester until other registrations are done in July. There’s a lot to fit in for a BFA plus a BSc and required Honors courses in four years (and she can only get out of about 5 or 6 courses with her AP credits, so needs to earn about 150-160 semester credits in total). But she seems to enjoy being busy and has a 3.9 GPA so far.
Meanwhile S has another 5 weeks of the quarter left (with midterms next week) so we won’t see him until mid June. But he’s planning a more relaxed summer writing a research paper.
@MACmiracle - we are in a similar situation. My S18’s second semester was more of a struggle but he is involved in 2 major activities and told me he is on a leadership track for one of them. We’ll see how the grades are but I do want him to enjoy college. It was so wonderful when he got in the car to come home and said to me, “I made the right choice coming here.”
S18 invited me to a baseball game with him. Not often he asks me to something with him, so I was pretty happy. His summer class at the local college starts soon, and his summer job starts just a few days after that. Gotta earn some spending money for year 2!
@chb088 That your kid wants to hang out with you- that is the cherry on top of raising kids, isn’t it? 
She’s home! My heart is full. Flew in last night. It seems kind of late though in comparison. Anyone’s kids still finishing up?
@Meddy My S18 is home, but D18 is still in Montreal. She’s doing a Maymester (Calc 3) and settling into a new apartment so she’ll be good to go when she returns in August. She flies home in two weeks.
Gotta brag about our S here. We were not sure if the Park School at Ithaca was a good match for him. He never liked school much, and it’s a competitive program. It’s a small sample size, but he finished with a 3.7. In addition, he met his first GF, who will be visiting the first week of June. He got a B+ in his “hardest” class (hardest because he didn’t like it). He’s never had grades like this for a whole school year.
I’m at ND this weekend for older D’s graduation. Man, that went fast!! Don’t blink folks! Younger D has had a great year but boy that went fast too!
Sorry, that’s a lot of exclamation marks. ?
I think Meddy exactly expressed my sentiments about my D being under my roof tonight, “my heart is full”. Also, in the car ride home today she said that she always imagined college being great, but the reality is better than she could have even imagined. It just doesn’t get any better than this.
@Meddy My S has another 3 1/2 weeks!! Ah, the quarter system.
@Genevieve18 Wow. Well, my guess is the weather will at least be nice by then
I saw it was beautiful there this past week - 80 degrees. Going back and forth between 50s and 75 the next week or so. It’s lovely by the lake in nice weather.
We are in Williamstown! We arrived last night and started the packing. We take our son home today.
I think that it hit me today more than ever how much I missed him! I have such a sense of well-being and joy just knowing he will be living at home this summer.
But it also feels right that he is growing up and becoming independent. His freshman year was amazing. He really loved it. He excelled academically, was intellectually stimulated by his readings and discussions, grew in confidence and independence, did meaningful stuff extracurricularly, and had fun with his friends. I look back on his first year with pride and pleasure in all that he accomplished.
Lots of joy to all of you as you bring home your kids. Wow- freshman year is over already. How the time flies!
@TheGreyKing So wonderful. I hope that our Class of 2018 parents can say the same for their kid’s first year experience.
Can I brag? My girl earned all A’s. I am so proud of this kid. She leaves in a week to visit three of her college friends in three different states. Good grades and good friends. I’m happy for her.