Happy May 1st! I wanted to put in a little advertisement for the Pitt Parent Ambassadors. I joined a couple of years ago and have enjoyed helping on a Freshman welcome event in our area. Joining has some perks also! Check out the website!
Would you suggest joining now with an incoming freshman this fall or waiting?
Really any time is fine. If you wanted to wait until January or so that would be fine. Your membership is for a year no matter when you start. I think I joined sometime in my DS’s sophomore year.
Do you have to attend meetings? What does it entail?
No meetings. You can participate in events that they have during parents weekend and at other times of the year. It’s laid out well on the website.
Ok. I’ll have to check it out some more. I am not sure if we are going to Parents Weekend. I assume it will be very crowded. I was thinking since we are not that far away we could come up another weekend, or is this not a good idea?
We went to Parents Weekend Freshman year and visited other fall weekends other years. It just depended on my son’s testing schedule or what worked best with our schedules.
I was actually thinking of maybe going up Labor Day weekend since she would be there for about 2 weeks by then. But maybe I will ask her what she would prefer. Maybe she doesn’t want to be the only one who has no parents at the Parent Weekend.