Thanks, he’s going to try to force add it. The problem it’s reserved for students who picked that track from the beginning, and he can’t transfer over until second semester, but hopefully the professor will just let him take it. There’s space in the class.
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I’ll pass that along to my college kids. One has used Course Pickle before which sounds similar.
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Was a great holiday, D23 was really happy to be home. Really appreciative of simple things like her room and the snack cupboard. She’s happy at school. She had entered as a marketing major and I’m a little concerned that she is not getting any room to explore anything else. Her advisor seems bent on getting her requireds out of the way, which is good…but she is also interested in advertising/PR and we were told it was very easy to try those classes and it hasn’t happened. I’d just like her to sample one of those classes sooner than later in case she wants to switch majors.
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That is why my son is switching
up his major. Part of why he chose Cuse was because he wanted to dabble in music industry and sound and recording.
With vocal performance he has 8 classes with little to no room for anything else as times overlap.
He still wants to sing but hoping for more opportunity for exposure.
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They are gone and we get our quiet empty nest back.
D23 was home. D19 came home also and D19’s old roommate(our adoptive daughter) visited us well. Just the 5 of us for Thanksgiving. I did take the two older girls out for blackout Wednesday and we had D23 as a driver. It was fun.
D23 was in and out a bit visiting her boyfriend and others. We did have the talk with her about spending money while at school. She has recently gotten a job to help with her spending.
Man these girls can make a mess and can be loud. I am going to start charging them one of those cleaning fees like the AirBnBs do.
D23 made it back safe driving yesterday in some snow. I do hate when they are on the road. At least she had a passenger to help if she were in trouble.
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D23, the last of my travelers left this morning on an 8:30am flight. Dh flew out yesterday evening for a business trip and S21 had a late night flight. Lots of airport shuttling for me! Fortunately, only Dh had a slight delay - the kids flights were on time. I got no sleep last night tho b/c I waited for S21 to text me he was back at school (1:30am) then I tossed and turned until my alarm went off around 5:15 to get up to take D23.
D23 has adjusted well so far, and has had the easiest adjustment of my four kids. D17 really struggled her first semester to find a friend group but second semester was much better. My sons both had a little bit of adjustment in different ways (S19 had a nightmare roommate that required RA involvement). D23 joined club tennis team and got to travel to a tournament in St. Louis. She also joined the Model UN team and they had their first conference the weekend before Thanksgiving. Her classes are going well, but lots of work. She’s in the honors program so lots of reading/writing for those extra requirements (she said being in IB in high school had her well prepared!).
I didn’t get to see much of her while home except for Thanksgiving so the two of us planned an outing to Wash DC yesterday to the Holiday Market. It was right in front of the National Portrait Gallery so we went there afterward, one of the few DC museums I’ve never visited. Took her to late lunch at The Dubliner, a place with some sentimental meaning for me and dh. It was fun to have the one on one time with her.
She said she missed home a little bit. But she said she is happy where she is which I’m so glad to hear, knowing how difficult my older D’s transition was (also went to school far from home). Made it a little easier dropping her off at the airport this morning!
Small world tidbit - her flight on Tuesday night from Chicago, she saw at least six kids from home (none of whom go to her university). Most of them she went to K-8 with. D23 went to a diff h.s. and hadn’t seen them in over four years! S21 also had a K-12 classmate on his flight last night whom he hasnt seen since they graduated!
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What’s he switching from / to? Does it impact his scholarship? Wasn’t he on a music voice/talent scholarship?
More music industry based yet still doing voice.
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This is my daughter too. She is planning on applying to transfer somewhere. She said her school just feels wrong. 
Had a nice Thanksgiving though. Then a 13 hour round teip day taking her back yesterday.
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Our S23 missed his flight out of Cleveland back to Bama yesterday. He was home for Thanksgiving and wanted to delay saying goodbye to his girlfriend as long as possible. She’s a HS senior now and they’ve been dating for a year. It turned out he waited too long because the lines at the airport were much longer than he anticipated based on his limited prior experience. He ended up being transferred to another flight four hours later and texted us at 3AM (Bama time) to let us know he made it back to his dorm. We figured he’ll learn from that and not try to arrive “just in time” at airports in the future.
We have the opposite problem as Gatormama. He and his girlfriend are trying to keep the long-distance relationship going even though he can only come home once or twice a semester. He has mixed feelings about Bama, too. He has met some good friends there and likes several aspects of it – the football games, most of his classes, the campus, and particularly the warmer weather – but wishes he could see the other people in his life more often. His social life is made more difficult because he (appropriately) feels he should keep some “distance” between himself and any girls there that start getting flirty with him. (It’s a good problem to have, and one I am largely unfamiliar with, but he’s a pretty cool and handsome guy.) He is also not a fan of the frat culture, although he admits it’s not too intrusive in his daily life.
I told him on the way to the airport that he needs to travel poorly a few times in order to learn to travel well. He learned something valuable without paying too steep of a price.
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Sorry to hear your daughter’s school isn’t what she hoped it would be. Does she have any ideas as to what schools seem like a better fit? She is a dancer, yes?
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Not on the Sunday of Thanksgiving. We sent both back Saturday. Cheaper and we drive right up to the terminal. On Sunday, the line to the terminal is a mile long. It’s one of the busiest day of the year. Even for Saturday, Southwest sent a warning text to arrive at least two hrs later.
It’s good they had availability on a later flight. Lucky on a day like yesterday.
Life lessons for sure.
This is a bummer. I remember you worked so hard to find the proper and affordable school. Is the original “neighboring” choice viable ?
Hopefully it gets better there or you find a good fit.
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Took S23 back yesterday after a quiet Thanksgiving with just the three of us, as his older siblings did Thanksgiving together on the east coast. It’s nice that he’s only an hour away, and we saw a really beautiful sunset together. I think he appreciates the views of the ocean from campus. This is from the bottom of the hill.
He’s happy with his choice and doing well. Gets on well with his roommates and has made a few friends, though he’s not very sociable and doesn’t like parties. He is pleased to have all three classes next quarter in math, physics and astronomy, I think he’ll put off the general eds as long as possible (fortunately he only has about 5 GE classes to do).
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Beautiful - where is that?
That would certainly make a day to day impression on life - environment matters!!
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Santa Cruz. Though you can’t see it in the photo, the ocean in the opposite direction was full of surfers. I’m trying to persuade S that he needs to get back into surfing. But apparently it’s not the done thing to take your surfboard on the bus.
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I mean, that’s heaven on earth. My daughter has a favorite spot (the battery) in Charleston - and I think it’s important for kids to have that place they can just - lose themselves in.
That’s stunning. I’m jealous.
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Mine was also the Battery, and a couple of the decaying graveyards in town. Love Charleston!
@ CarPayDM – for my son, the warmer weather is not a plus. He texted me over the weekend after he got back:
“Every time the weather goes below 50 degrees the pro column gets another tick
Also; I think I need to go and study in the library more. I get more work done there and I feel better
Entirely possible that the only thing I dislike greatly here is the weather.”
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Studying in the library is often way more productive than in the dorm rooms. I’ve heard a lot of kids make this observation.
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You would think the buses would have a rack on the front for bikes and maybe a surfboard would fit there.
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