<p>Everything is just peachy . We are set to blast off with our borrowed truck with camper top (my trucks are just too small :eek:) at 7:00 A.M.. I will be the guy on campus with the paper sack on my head, ashamed of the excess. </p>
<p>My kid will be the student with the bag over her head , ashamed of the twice-piped 4x4 truck with the big chrome wheels (22's!!) and low profile tires complete with the naked lady mudflaps. They'll see and hear us coming that's for sure. BLAP.BLAP.BLAP.Yee-Haw. </p>
<p>D got her schedule today and everything seems to be just fine. Not a single prof or class section she wanted. She is registered for 11 hours. :eek: Signed up for 16 and 11 hours will not keep her scholarship in place - but I'm betting this has happened before. As of now, Freshmen English is all closed as are all the chem labs. Who needs 'em? Buy a good thesaurus and do the labs in your dorm bathroom. Her proposed and preferred schedule was just overkill I'd say. </p>
<p>Well at least she can use her brand new 17" Dell Laptop with its Sony battery on the way there. That's the one thing we have going for us. You can always count on those two companies. ;)</p>
<p>Well, we're ordering a Mac so we don't have to pack an extinguisher... D has been away as a camp counselor all summer and is finally home. She does not have to be at school until Sept 13th -- she'll need every minute. She has to prepare 4 violin pieces for her orchestra audition, has to read her first book for Freshman Studies before arriving on campus, and has 6 appointments with various healthcare and beauty professionals before we can depart.</p>
<p>She finally picked out some bedding yesterday and insisted on an over-door organizer for all her shoes. I hope her roommate didn't have any plans for the door... </p>
<p>Maybe we could borrow a truck with a camper top too! I'll ask D what she thinks! </p>
<p>Good luck -- please let us know how the move-in goes!</p>
<p>curmudgeon - WOW has time flown for you - and the day is here!!! You will be the hit of campus on your arrival :D Congrats to you and your gal tho - it will all be worth it - enjoy the move-in experience tho LOL......... I am sure you will tho LOL.</p>
<p>As far as the number of credits thing - that will work out - it is not uncommon for classes to open up right before school starts - kids who don't go have their schedules dump'd back into the pile. We ran into that as well - but we were right on top of things - actaully - we called the day we left and was able to get the kiddo into 2 classes she needed because of dump'd schedules......... Keep the faith</p>
<p>Bet that new battery will be on it's way shortly as well LOL</p>
<p>Have a wonderful experience with your gal - you both deserve it :)</p>
<p>Musicmomic----Umm, don't assume Mac batteries don't have their problems. My son had his replaced on an emergency basis about three weeks ago when it suddenly swelled to double its original size--and got very hot. I have no idea how the Apple store disposed of it. </p>
<p>And Curmudgeon--thanks for the laugh. I feel confident it will all work out, somehow.</p>
<p>"D got her schedule today and everything seems to be just fine. Not a single prof or class section she wanted. She is registered for 11 hours. Signed up for 16 and 11 hours will not keep her scholarship in place - but I'm betting this has happened before."</p>
<p>Sounds just like my son's typical high school schedule. I think his freshman year all they'd managed was gym, English and Math.</p>
<p>Great post, Curm! I concur that the schedule thing will work out, but have D start working on her assertiveness exercises on the way north--she'll need them. Scheduling snafus are universal, as far as I can tell, and they get fixed fastest for the most persistent, albeit unfailingly polite, squeaky wheels.</p>
<p>(Not to be confused with those mudflaps...)</p>
<p>Cur, do not forget packing your passports for crossing into Bill Clinton's and Al Gore's country. I just got mine renewed, you know that real big Texan One with the pretty Longhorn stamps.</p>
<p>Good luck, curmudgeon! No doubt my S would prefer your truck to our TWO minivans (gotta fit those brothers in somewhere) - it's a gender thing for sure.</p>
<p>As for excess, my S is fond of pointing to the pile that has been steadily growing in our living room (zero items of which he has placed there), while he invites his friends to laugh at me. Funny thing is that each one of them inventories it and asks "where'd you get that cool ___ - I need one of those too I guess!"</p>
<p>The one and only thing he thinks he NEEDS is the torn bar Natty Boh bar poster announcing cans for $1.50 and that "Lacrosse is Maryland's official team sport." </p>
<p>Just to let you know we both have our priorities straight!</p>
<p>Thanks, folks but are we THAT early? Somebody else has to be moving this week, don't they? Where are y'all? Esquette, when do y'all head out?</p>
<p>I had set a dorm room budget and the girls managed to get the nine large plastic containers full of stuff stacked neatly at the front door under the budget. Oh, not the stuff. Just the containers. :eek:</p>
<p>Good thing you have two bags! If you look at the thread in the Parents' cafe, started by Robert E. Lee, luggage is superfluous; all you need is lots of garbage bags!</p>
<p>We're driving Son Number 1 and his siblings to Notre Dame tomorrow, but the siblings are coming home with us. In tears, most likely. :)</p>
<p>Fortunately, my big brother is driving his truck with all of the stuff. The doubles in Morrisey Manor look to be too small to hold much, so he may be ferrying some of it back home.</p>
<p>I'm delighted that my boy is going to Notre Dame, but I wonder where those years went - on this date in 1987, we were anticipating his arrival, and the mix of uncertainty and excitement feels similar. We've only added sadness.</p>
<p>Yes. Mudgie. Fond farewells from the crowd at cc. Knock 'em dead. Goes without saying and I am sure she would do it anyway:). Who if anyone is escorting her on this voyage? Who will be the lucky parent kissing her back goodbye as she runs off up the hill to the rest of her life?</p>
<p>Thanks Alu, ma and pa will do the honors together. As radionicist said, there will be some small sadnesses but there will be more grand smiles at what is yet to be.</p>
<p>AAAHAAA - the trash bag tripping thing LOL - brings back fond memories - my son owned a very small car - EVERYTHING was packed in black trash bags - or shipped off by UPS - he didn't even own a suitcase or bin to his name LOL ...................... last trip home from school cost $213 for 13 UPS'd boxes and 1 little car full of trash LOL.............</p>
<p>What school, curmudgeon? (or are you keeping that private? - I only looked briefly through your other posts)</p>
<p>How common is it not to get the classes you need? I'm hoping its less common at the smaller schools. I went to a giant UC (10,000 years ago) and waited in hours long lines to get the classes I needed. Very educational process for a 17 year old person! ;-P</p>
<p>musicmomic: Did your daughter have a chance to talk to/email her roommate so they can talk about the use of the door? :-)</p>
<p>I was in Bed Bath and Beyond yesterday picking up something for the house and though I'm usually not much into shopping, looking around at all the "dorm room stuff" got me looking forward to next summer when we'll be buying stuff for D!</p>
<p>CURM you are off to the race of the beginning of the rest of her life - so go in peace :)</p>
<p>I have watched you travel the long road to get her to where she will be going - with candor - alot of caring - and a wonderful sense of humor........... this is a new beginning for you and for her - cherish these moments and enjoy the journey you both are about to take - and stay away from the pot holes please - that truck will give ya'll a real bump if ya aren't careful :D - sure don't want those 9 plactic bins to fall out!!</p>
<p>Curmudgeon - he moves in on Sun Aug 27 - and that's a week before the regular move in day Sat Sept 2. Doing the pre-o service week - staying in low income senior housing doing manual labor while learning about poverty - a highly appropriate simulation of what his life will be like if he doesn't keep his scholarship . . . .</p>
<p>Many southern schools are earlier though - S's best friend heads to Clemson Thurs, another friend to High Point U Thurs, another to VaTech tomorrow. Another already at Wake Forest's pre-o week. </p>
<p>No schedule yet, not finalized until he gets there. But he was "stoked" to get a popular chemistry prof as adviser. Email exchanges confirm that hopeless science geeks will always find each other fascinating. And he did pass the online alcohol education course. Guess he can always say he aced his first college exam?</p>
<p>sushi, ain't nothing real private about our trip through the tulips. At least not after 2800 posts on CC. :) </p>
<p>(edit: check that, 2*9*oo posts. Sheesh.)</p>
<p>D is Rhodes College, Class of 2010.</p>
<p>Did I say those plastic containers are huge? Does each dorm usually have a forklift or pallet truck? How common is that would you say? Should we call ahead? LOL</p>
<p>And folks I haven't mentioned the garbage bags of clothes. Bags. Multiple bags. Baling wire and duct-taped dark green hefty cinch sak luggage bags. LOL.</p>
<p>That reminds me: S actually instructed me not to get those *** white trash bags, just the black ones. But he hasn't gotten around to getting his meningitis shot yet. Priorities . . . .</p>
<p>Washington and Lee University, Class of 2010 -- "livin the dream"</p>