@TiggerDad Our kid’s Southern CA school did not have IB. I myself didn’t know what IB was. I was sort of glad that the school went towards deemphasixing AP classes because I think our kid would have gotten more Bs if his high school classes were more intense. As it was, 35% or 40% of his classes were A- which still counted as 4.0 gpa.
Because he was busier with ECs in high school than at college, I would also agree that he doesn’t find college more difficult than high school, but he enjoys college more because he gets to take the classes he finds interesting, whereas he took some classes in high school, just to show he could handle hard classes.
High school can be more time consuming than college due to greater in class time and higher volume of easier homework and assignments due to the needing 70% of the work doable by C students.
Yeap. Skips breakfast also. Every time I hear about UCLA cafeteria food, I get jealous. Now, had our kid been offered a Regents I would have lobbied harder for him to seriously consider UCLA. I feel strongly that kids should at least look forward to eating good food every day. My kid also is jealous of the revamped UC Irvine shopping area full of decent eateries including Blaze Pizza.
Another kid my kid knew who had even lower GPA in high school is doing really well at Berkeley maintaining 3.8 gpa as a CS major through sophomore year. I was hella impressed. But apparently according to this kid, there are so much demand for internship from so many CS students at Berkeley, they have to try very hard to get summer internships.
Canada Goose is indeed a status thing. No one would pay that much if it didn’t come with that label on it. You can always get a warm coat from Land’s End. Also, I believe they use real animal fur.
Our DD was frustrated when she was the only one in her Animal Science class that could not see semen under the microscope. She complained to DH and I, that she was “obviously at a disadvantage because clearly the rest of the class had more experience with semen.”
My daughter’s shock went the other way, that there were hopeless kids in the world who can’t do anything themselves. My kids have been doing their own laundry since they were 11, could figure out flights and how to reserve them, how to buy clothes and shoes and use a debit card.
She’s still in shock that her boyfriend’s mother did/does everything for him, from registering for classes and buying books, to making airline reservations for every break and holiday, to making his dentist appointments. When hurricanes were coming, his parents made all the reservations for flights or hotels. His mother used to overnight spaghetti sauce and meatballs to him so she knew he was eating right. I know the entire wedding will be planned by Mama.
Seems like if they do get married, she will get both all of the work and all of the control with respect to household matters, assuming that she replaces his mother in doing these types of things for him.
My eldest kid didn’t know that you had to wash sheets. Like - at all. Apparently she only caught on to this great truism after about 8 weeks of college when her sheets started to feel “funny”. facepalm
My kids had never done their own laundry either at home or at school, where they had a laundry service. The first time they both had to do it was abroad. And because of the different settings I couldn’t really give any guidance. dd1 texted me her first week in Australia:
“Why were people freaking out? (friends parents who were like ‘OMG you’ve never done laundry, oh hope all your clothes don’t get ruined when you do them).’ I looked up how to do laundry on google. The whole process took like 4 minutes of my time. Why do people need practice for this??!! You literally do almost nothing after sorting which you should be able to do if you can, you know, see colors!!”
They also never had to cook or clean at home. Both are excellent cooks now and keep their places neat.
The one thing they did had to do at home was get themselves up and out every morning from 3rd grade on. They were surprised that some people’s parents had always woken them up in the morning and made them breakfast.
Most people have managed some degree of life competence before college, and some have managed a great deal. It is not that any particular task is overly intellectually challenging, it is merely one more thing to take responsibility for in self-care, as an adult. Like tying your own shoes, or bathing yourself or doing your own laundry. Keeping yourself and your surroundings clean is a basic life function. Yes, you can hire helpers for any of those tasks if you wish/need to instead.
IMHO, Canada Goose is a lot like Range Rovers-no one who really spends time in say, Northern Alberta, or the wilds of Africa (and I have family in both) would dream of using them, but they are popular status symbols for those braving the mid-atlantic chill or the suburban jungle. Whatever makes them happy.
"Canada Goose is indeed a status thing. No one would pay that much if it didn’t come with that label on it. "
While it definitely has become a status thing, people did pay that much for it before it was a status thing because it was actual expedition gear. Used to be just research scientists and people who worked in Arctic conditions and needed that level of tech bought it and they paid - or their research grants or their employer paid - that much for it. In the last few years it became a status thing and now people who don’t necessarily need Arctic level warm buy them.
I only know this because when my son was admitted to a college up north we had to get him warm gear and several friends in NY and Boston suggested CG. After doing some reading, we decided that wasn’t the route we wanted to take.
“IMHO, Canada Goose is a lot like Range Rovers-no one who really spends time in say, Northern Alberta, or the wilds of Africa (and I have family in both) would dream of using them,…”
Anyone like me who has to regularly walk near the lake and river in Chicago’s not unheard of subzero winter temps not to mention it’s pretty common sub zero windchill would like me 100 percent dream of it. Indeed it’s been a dream fufillled for me. Never understood just how important having seams sewn the way they are on the CG was until I got one. After 25 years of being miserable walking to work from coats that didn’t keep me warm and /or were so stiff I couldn’t move and/or didn’t have CG’s ingenious indoor carry straps I found my bliss.
When a garment is new, I get washing it with like colors, but in general all this sorting is unnecessary. The dyes in clothes have come a long way since 1960.
“When a garment is new, I get washing it with like colors, but in general all this sorting is unnecessary. The dyes in clothes have come a long way since 1960.”
Colored clothes with heavy weaves tend to shed a bit onto my kids black silky leggings do those are washed separately. As are whites because we bleach them.
