<p>S who is home this weekend, as again spoken of how happy and impressed he is with AU. He loves the campus, not too large, small enough to see familiar faces and has spoken many times about the friendliness of the students. He says it is very easy to speak to other students and discover common ground on which to form friendships. He is also impressed with the degree to which AU students are opinionated and passionate. Both liberal and conservative, students in classes make for heated and interesting debates.</p>
<p>Cadmiumred, I second Meiwah for a restaurant for chinese food–it’s across the street from where S1 and his wife live and we have had some very good meals there.</p>
<p>This weekend we tried Zaytania with our sons–yummy, middle eastern small plate menu. It was easy to please my carnivore S3 and my vegetarian DIL. It’s always fun to try lots and lots of interesting choices on the menu.</p>
<p>However, cadmiumred, i can’t figure out why you have such utter disdain for any student who is enjoying a normal college social life. What is wrong with your daughter that she needs to study 24 hours a day? And why always in her room?</p>
<p>Students are supposed to spend 2-3 hours outside of class for each hour they are taking-- if students treat their academics like their job (and most I know at AU do)–
if they have 3 or 4 hours of class in a day, five days a week, and spend about 3 or 4 hours before, between, or after class but before dinner , reading or working on assignments, that is already 15-20 hours of study time. If the student then spends 2 - 4 hours just 4 evenings a week studying or working on assignments, that is another 8 to 16 hours of study time. In other words, without any stressing whatsover, that student is already devoting 23 to 36 hours/ week to the books, even before adding in any time spent with the books over the weekend. My S said everyone he knows works extensively on Sundays, generally 3 or 4 hours in the afternoon and the same in the evening, adding another 6 to 8 hours per week. And this example does not give students any credit for doing any work on Friday nights or any time at all on Saturdays!</p>
<p>For example, my son (came in with 21 hours of AP credit) is taking the average freshman load of 15 hours. He is actually in class somewhat more than that because of his UC course. So he should be spending 30-45 hours/week with his books. Which he does. He has a study schedule posted on his bulletin board and on his google calendar showing what he is working on, and when, for the upcoming week(s). Up to now, he’s been studying/reading about 30 hours/week, but he senses the demands are ramping up now that they are deeper into the semester and he plans to add time as he needs to. </p>
<p>There is plenty of time in the week to be a diligent student and still have a fun social life, playing sports, hanging out, going to concerts, even going to parties !!!</p>
<p>Boysx:</p>
<p>Glad you enjoy Mei Wah. The original one is downtown, and the one where we go is in Friendship Heights. Daughter had a serious talk with roommate, and I think things are going to settle down a little more. She definitely is very studious and likes her quiet time. My daughter is very happy though that the bathroom on this floor is not an overcrowded hangout like the old one. By the way, Town Hall in upper Georgetown, is a nice nouvelle american cuisine restaurant with character. BEWARE though, Good Guys, a topless, bottomless bar, is on that street, a few blocks up from the Georgetown library which attracts many GW, Georgetown and AU students. My daughter said she hears of kids going there as there is no cover. It is just amazing that an upscale area like Georgetown/Cleveland Park allows this type of establishment to remain in business.</p>
<p>Hey just clarify. There is no strip club up the street from Georgetown. There is one two miles north of campus by the Naval conservancy, which I guess is walking distance if you were really determined. It’s not exactly some place Georgetown students go to hang out. I had never heard of it until cadmiumred mentioned it. I’m sure some people know exactly where it is. I just didn’t want people thinking that Georgetown (or GW or AU) students congregate there after a tough day in the library.</p>
<p>Just wondering, CR were’d you get so much info on a topless/bottomless bar??</p>
<p>hec2008:</p>
<p>Just to clarify, there IS a strip club , right in Georgetown, at 2311 Wisconsin Ave. I already told you that it is called the Good Guys Club. Look at the website, hon. It has been there since the 70’s. I have relatives in the Washington D.C. who said it is an institution, and students HAVE gone there. It is Right near the Georgetown library, upper end of Georgetown. My daughter said kids at AU have talked about it. I myself have seen the place from the outside only, when I went to the Town Hall restaurant, and the old popular Grog and Tankard Bar, which only recently moved out and was directly across the street. This was also a college hangout.</p>
<p>The strip club is in Georgetown, right near the Georgetown- Washington D.C. Public library at 2311 Wisconsin Ave., an “upscale,” area. lol.</p>
<p>Why would 'red’s d. have to go to a strip club (her mother gave her the address) when she can see the same thing right in her own dorm? ;)</p>
<p>OK, I grew up in DC and this is not a place I even heard of though I am sure I had friends who did. So I looked it up, it is up the road slightly more than a half mile( what looks like a few long blocks) from the Georgetown Public Library. I don’t know about you but I did not hang out in the public library when I was in college. The college one, yeah but not the public library. (hec2008 was right it is 2 miles from Georgetown Univ.)</p>
<p>DC has many wonderful and less than wonderful places, including a number of strip clubs. I am sure that students have tried to go there and I am also pretty sure that if they aren’t over 21 and don’t have ID they don’t get in. It would not be worth it to the strip club. But more importantly, I don’t care if there is a strip club somewhere within 3 miles of a college, they are young adults and need to make their own choices of behavior. Hopefully, they have been raised with enough freedom and responsibility to make good choices. I have faith in my daughter.
Ellen</p>
<p>I’ve got nothing whatsoever to say about strip clubs, except that DC is a major metropolitan area, and like most, its neighborhoods can change drastically from block to block. (I’m sure there are crack houses too a brief Metro ride away from AU, but when you go to college in a big city, you get the good with the bad.) I do want to let people know that D was officially detripled today, and she can’t believe how big the room feels now. Loft is gone, top bunk is gone, extra desk and bookcase are gone. Nice to see that AU made this happen for at least two CC’ers this early in the year. So far, all AU promises have been kept.</p>
<p>Mini:
Is this Ellen the hospice nurse or Mr. Mini the father, the one who hides behind Ellen? I never know to whom I am responding. Anyhoo, my daughter only heard about this club from other students at school and not from me. She would never go as she is a serious student. Anyway you cut it, this strip club is definitely in a busy, bustling part of Georgetown, near the gorgeous Georgetown Public Library, which has a fireplace and has attracted numerous tourists, politicians, people and students of all ages. It has a rare collection of manuscripts and documents related to Washington D.C. history. Anyone, and I mean anyone actually raised in D.C. and is well educated, knows this library and would know that the strip club is nearby. You can’t deny it though, many would wish that it would close. Some of the manuscripts and wonderful documents were lost in a fire in the library a few years ago unfortunately. It was a major D.C. news story.</p>
<p>Cadmiumred,
Your posts are a pleasure to read. They’re highly entertaining. </p>
<p>You know what else DC has? Prostitutes!! and Homeless People!! and Cheating Husbands!! and Cheating Wives!! and Alcoholics!! and Drug Addicts!! But enough about Congress!</p>
<p>I live in Kentucky, within a three mile radius of my fab historic home I have several strip clubs, crack houses and other unsavory type places. Doesn’t everyone living in a city? I also have an outstanding regional theatre, ballet, orchestra, a 400 acre park, great restaurants, art galleries, etc. That is the trade off-- cities cater to a wide range of tastes, some of them tasteless.</p>
<p>On a more AU topic-- We are taking our 2 daughters, ages 11 and 6 for family weekend. Are any of the official activities appropriate for children?</p>
<p>^When we came for Family Weekend during D1’s freshman year, we ended up skipping the official activities, most of which I felt would be too boring for my youngest child (then aged 10). Instead we explored D.C., including some of the Smithsonian exhibits, the monuments, etc.</p>
<p>my son is 13… he will be coming with us to family wk, we’ll skip the official activities too… not on sunday but on saturday we’ll be exploring DC.</p>
<p>Deirdre:</p>
<pre><code>I would be concerned about the property value retention of your fab historic home if there are crack houses and strip clubs only 3 miles from your place of residence. On another note, why is the family weekend so expensive? We are already paying huge tuition costs and now having to foot the bill for family weekend travel and activities. There should be a free extensive buffet breakfast with lox, sable, etc. and maybe a nice brisket luncheon. The Newseum fees etc. should be covered by the school. We do not have bottomless pocketbooks.
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<p>That’s funny. Up until now, I’ve always thought there was a slight chance that cadmiumred was really a psycho mother. However, todays post makes it all clear.</p>
<p>I bow to you cadmiumred. Excellent job. We’ve been punked by the best of them. It’s like Andy Kaufman all over again. You are a funny son of a *****.</p>
<p>My personal theory? </p>
<p>That since her little birdies have flown the coup, Cadmiumred doesn’t have any chicks left to micromanage and fill her day…so she spends her time trying to create mountains out of molehills to keep herself occupied.</p>
<p>She’s all alone in her house with no one to pay attention to her, so she goes all out to be as outrageous as possible to get the attention she craves. From the academic deans and the housing administrators and the RA…and from us! I wonder what other forums she posts on?</p>
<p>At the same time, I find myself wondering …</p>
<p>While we were in DC last week, we had lunch with S3 and a friend in TDR so we could sample the food (good for dorm food…realizing that it is, of course, dorm food…)</p>
<p>The girls at the other end of our table were celebrating the detripling of their room…apparently the girl who moved out was a real pill who insisted that the room was “hers” and believed that her wants should trump the desires of the other two roomies…she spent a lot of the time whispering on her cell phone to her mother…the girl insisted on spending all her time in the room unless she was in class, did not like the other two girls to have guests in the room ever, and wanted to keep “high school” rules and hours. When one of the girls made a suggestion that they create a rotating schedule where each girl would have a day in turn to determine the use of the room, whether to study, sleep, entertain friends, whatever…the one girl would not consent.</p>
<p>Do you think they could have been talking about cadmiumred’s daughter?</p>