<p>Yep, Irish is right- at least that's what I remember reading in the Observer.</p>
<p>That is great news that they are building more dorm space.</p>
<p>Do you know when they are breaking ground and when they expect students to move in?</p>
<p>From what I understand, they will most likely break ground within the next year. The plan is to move the existing basketball courts and sand volleyball pits out of what used to be the back nine of the old golf course (or was that the front? All I ever did on that course was cross country ski...) </p>
<p>The first dorm to be built will be a guys' dorm. From there, the plans are to build on a pay-as-you-go basis. They apparently have enough contributions to build one dorm. When they get enough, they will break ground on a second, presumably a girls' dorm. </p>
<p>From what my son tells me, they are going to build more along the lines of the historically more accurate new construction like the bookstore or the addition to the law school than the more generic architecture used to build the four "west quad" dorms of O'Neill, Keogh, Knott, & Welsh--none of which I can tell apart. These new dorms will have varying room sizes, and all sorts of rooms from quads and doubles to singles and triples, comparable to the older dorms, as opposed to the one-size-fits-all doubles of the late 1990's construction of west quad.</p>
<p>My son knew all of this stuff. I knew none of it. Guess it makes all those extra groceries we stocked last weekend worth it? :) Like us, he really wants his little sister up there with him.</p>
<p>As per admissions numbers of this year versus past years, I don't know if they plan to cut back on acceptances or not. While a great football season and a surge in the birth rate may have put more students in the mix, the economy isn't quite where it was last year, either. People are always panicking about how this is the hardest admissions year ever...</p>
<p>Hopefully, when they get the new dorms built, they can move kids out of study rooms and pseudo closets and give them a little breathing room again!</p>
<p>Here's the Observer link. I guess they are keeping the hoops and just moving sand volleyball. Good--those are the greatest outdoor hoops courts I've ever seen! I have been elbowed by my children playing on those courts many a summer we spent a week at Notre Dame Family Hall...</p>
<p>This is another cool one I just learned about while reading the online Observer. A whole new commercial area to go with the new infrastructure and intersection of the Juniper Street bypass.</p>
<p>These people know how to do things right!</p>
<p>Perhaps that's why they charge $42K a year?</p>
<p>Oh well, it's worth it...</p>
<p>Great links.</p>
<p>Will the commercial area be close enough to campus so the students can walk there?</p>
<p>sweet... that sounds great...</p>
<p>Umm... my thread got completely hijacked. Oh well...</p>
<p>ahhahahhaha....... sorry ryfrky07....</p>
<p>anything else that you need to know??/</p>
<p>Thing is, ryfrky, what more can people say about your original topic? No one on this board is making the decisions. It's all conjecture. Way I see it, it helps to do something other than obsess as we await word from the Golden Dome......... We post stats in the hopes people will affirm our hope that we, or our kids, will gain admission. Everybody is going to be polite and put the best face on the situation. </p>
<p>But let's be realistic. Nobody knows. Which is why we're so edgy with the countdown!</p>
<p>If I made a time machine to warp to March/April, Notre Dame would definitely accept me and we'd all know if we got in or not! I dream... I need to go read about string theory, and dark energy. BYE!</p>
<p>I'm kidding here. I've been kind of mean to my friends lately, so I understand the on edge thing with college admissions. It is way too stressful for an 18 year-old to endure.</p>
<p>DD...... i like this sentence "Thing is, ryfrky, what more can people say about your original topic? No one on this board is making the decisions. It's all conjecture"</p>
<p>especially the use of the word conjecture... its a top ten most used sat vocab word......</p>
<p>thanks for that!</p>
<p>I agree with you bout the whole stress thing......
I'm only a junior and it seems like every test i take is not only about my grade... but for my future at ND......... kinda weird .... but i still think that</p>
<p>I'm an obsessive middle aged mom, so there's not all that much I'm missing by stressing about this :)... Seriously, you kids are young and in high school--go out and have some fun! Go cheer at a high school game until you're hoarse! Flirt with the opposite sex! All the time you spend stressing now is time you don't get back...</p>
<p>ooo trust me i still go out and have fun..... just got home from a basketball game ( were awful by the way )......</p>
<p>I was just saying that the college thing just puts more pressure on top of the stuff that we already have......</p>
<p>Im not saying that its taking over my life...lol</p>
<p>But i would say that i come on this site a bit too much..... but its mainly cuz i get to talk to other notre dame people......</p>
<p>I have no time for fun. Too much crap for me to do right now.</p>
<p>That's kind of sad, really... If we adults have created an academic climate so over-competitive as to take the fun out of being a 17 or 18 year-old high school kid, then we've really done your generation a great disservice. </p>
<p>There's nothing wrong with setting goals and aiming high, but when the college admissions process has gotten so dysfunctional as to strip away enjoyment of the present, what's the point? Twenty years from now, the hoops the admissions folks put you through will mean very little, but the memories will last forever.</p>
<p>Good for you, chillin, for going out and having some fun!... If you can balance fun and ambition in high school, you are in good shape for the rest of your life...</p>
<p>ahha
im not gonna lie though ddjones... monday through thursday.. i dedicate for my athletics and school work........yet come Friday... its a diff story...</p>
<p>umm ryfrky07....why are you so bogged down?.... besides the college thing?</p>
<p>Umm... 6 papers are due in 3 weeks. I have a youth conference this weekend. I have my familial comittments and lots of fun crap!</p>
<p>i can hear you on the papers.........</p>
<p>I go to a jesuit school.. so I have relegion classes</p>
<p>So far my Gospels in action class has had about 500 points.... i have like a research project that will prob be around 50 pages (included research) and that it worth about 450 points....... so my whole grade comes down to this project.......... Its rough right now....... but sometimes you just gotta get done whats most important and not stress about stuff thats not in your hands...............</p>
<p>What type of youth conference is it?</p>
<p>It's Kentucky Youth Assembly. It's a mock session of government. We can get scholarships at it, but there are other things that are going on that have me frazzled.</p>