<p>We've been talking about how we're going to manage the finances next year and so I was wondering what ATMs and associated banks are at Midd. How do parents and kids handle the money thing typically? Do kids use the bank in town, is there a student union type thing?</p>
<p>national bank of middlebury is the most common bank in middlebury. they have two ATMs on campus as well as a few in town that are walking distance. if you want to use your non-midd atm card, it charges a 2 dollar usage fee in addition to other fees your bank might charge.</p>
<p>Saw where they have epanthers accounts. They are sending me some sort of info in the mail.</p>
<p>Now we’re discussing how we’ll do the “take the kid to college” thing. I want to go to parent stuff, but S has to be at school Aug 30 for football. The Drive is a little over 23 hours or 1300 miles. Thinking we could do round trip flight for S (plan the return at holiday or something), then we will do a road trip with the plan to arrive on the first with all of his stuff.</p>
<p>The other option is for all of us to fly, pay the extra in luggage and hotels for the long weekend. </p>
<p>I am just curious what other fall athletes’ parents do.</p>
<p>i shipped all son’s stuff via UPS–about four boxes–and planned it to arrive when his fall semester housing opened. he took what he needed in his oversized backpack and left early. it was very cheap.</p>
<p>Did you then go to parent orientation stuff or did he just go on his own?</p>
<p>modadunn–this was not, btw, middlebury but another nescac school. like you, we had a 25 hour drive and son said ‘don’t bother, just ship the stuff,’ and no, i did not do the parent orientation. he hung out with his new suite mates, took advantage of what the school offered, met with an academic advisor, took some tests, and settled in. it’s been a great experience for him and i hope your son enjoys, equally, all middlebury has to offer.</p>
<p>p.s. all his stuff arrived safely and it was quite easy. he, and all his mates, are storing their belongings over the summer in a downtown storage unit so it makes out travels back and forth from the midwest much easier.</p>
<p>Mod- If I were you, I’d skip parent orientation since he’ll already be here and settling in and plan to come for Parents’ Weekend one month later.</p>
<p>That very well might be what we end up doing. Only snag is my husband has yet to even visit the school! And yet he’s paying the bill. :-)</p>
<p>Ok… do they send the Spring Middlebury Magazine to new parents? My daughter’s college did. Point is, I was reading it online and would prefer to have a hard copy. Plus, the H rarely does a lot of online reading. He’s still a major newspaper guy.</p>