<p>what are your college bound freshman doing this summer? My D has always gone to summer camp but she isn't this year. I really would like her to do something constructive besides babysitting-
Can anyone make some suggestions??</p>
<p>Relaxing. I’ve spent four years of high school working my butt off and the last two working hard to apply and get into a good school - us students deserve a break!</p>
<p>Work, work, work! Those books she needs in the fall and that loft for her dorm room aren’t going to buy/rent themselves. She’s hoping for an almost full-time job at the city pool(certified as both a lifeguard and WSI). She’s got one afternoon at the dance studio. Last summer, she worked the extended school day program for ARC. I know she’d cram that in there, too, if it were at all possible.</p>
<p>The fin aid board is full of kids facing the reality that going to college often means getting a job to pay personal expenses, if not contribute to the cost of school. Working one’s tail off during the summer just might mean not having to work during freshman year.</p>
<p>I thought that the summer after graduation and before freshman year was just horrible for us as parents. It seemed that our boys were really testing their wings and trying our patience. The going-away parties all the time, nightly, seemed out of control!</p>
<p>Here in New England, the kids are going to school until almost July this year, and then some will be leaving for college in mid-August. Throw in a family vacation and a trip to visit Grandma and there’s not a lot of time left to work. </p>
<p>All I can say is <em>good luck</em> to the parents of the newly graduated!</p>
<p>If it looks like she might ever need her wisdom teeth removed, there will never be a less inconvenient time than this summer.</p>
<p>I am hoping D can find a job, but our town is tiny and jobs have been few. She may go to the International Trombone Festival, which ironically this year is in Nashville at Vanderbilt! Now that she is admitted, I think she may really want to go. Last year it was local in Austin at UT’s Butler School of Music and she loved it.
She needs to get her driver’s license asap, because I will have back surgery early June and will need her help when my husband is at work. Growing up time!</p>
<p>We’re taking what might be our last family vacation with our college-bound son. No classes for this summer.</p>
<p>My d worked and worked and worked and saved nearly all that $. It has sustained her prestty well through the freshman year and she is looking for another job this summer as well.</p>
<p>My D will volunteer at the hospital, we’ll go on a couple of family vacations, and that’s about it. Oh, and clean out her bedroom - that actually might take the entire summer!</p>
<p>Even though my D gets out earlier than many people’s kids (Graduation May 29th), her college starts up August 20th…throw in an orientation trip, a freshman ‘camp’ and a couple of family trips (Nana’s not coming to us!), the summer vanishes quite quickly. Add in that jobs she’s qualified for, like lifeguard or swim assistant, are out due to shoulder surgery and I think we will get her incidentals this year. Her school has a program whereby she can rent her textbooks for $107 bucks. Next year, hopefully, she’ll find a summer job/internship that will help her decide whether the career she wants is really for her. But this year? She’s worked so hard. </p>
<p>ORMom – Thank God she wants to be an archaeologist. Excavating her room is an excellent place to start!</p>
<p>Travel and relax in June.
Work in a radio station and a cell phone manufactory in Asia for whole July and first week of August. Hope he will learn how to survie in a different country and how to handle the real jobs.
Come back, one week get ready for everything then we might rent a RV, spend one week on the road, to the college ( if he decide to go to that college, if enough FA), drop him off then we take the air plane back home. Beginning of our empty nest life.</p>
<p>Relax, intern for artist, travel with family, get driver’s license. This summer is chopped up with obligations. Three week summer jobs are hard to come by.</p>
<p>I’ve told my daughter to create something she can hold in her hands before the end of summer. I don’t care much what it is – artwork of some kind or a writing a play, or creating a video or whatever. It can be something she’s never done before or something that builds on previous work. I just want her to accomplish something tangible on her own before she leaves for college. She decided to write a detailed Dungeons and Dragons adventure to leave behind for next year’s D&D Club at her high school to play. That’s okay with me.</p>
<p>Great ideas- thanks- we are going on a trip in June but she doesn’t start until late August so I was thinking about what she could do besides sitting around and needing money from ME.</p>
<p>I do think we should encourage our kids to drive as much as possible, even those who aren’t going far for college. The more practice they get now, the better. If you can teach them to drive stick as well as automatic, do so. You never know.</p>
<p>My daughter is travelling to Europe right after graduation, and then starting her lifeguarding job. It’s going to be a short summer though since freshman have to report in at the beginning of August. I think she mostly just wants to hang with her friends since she realizes that nothing will ever be the same again once they all go their separate ways.</p>