<p>I had the wonderful opportunity this past weekend to host some of your sons and daughters who were snowed in here. They had come to my area in order to perform in a festival which eventually was canceled due to the weather. It was a rare opportunity to be a "fly on the wall" in my own home, which became a college dorm for about 28 hours. I know quite a bit about Swarthmore since my son is a junior there, but it seems that these 3 schools share a lot besides their Quaker heritage. They ate, played cards, played Monopoly, snacked, watched a DVD, ate, AND they studied. At times my house was so quiet it sounded like an old-fashioned study hall. I had kids spread out on the floor of my living room working, kids around my kitchen table working. Engineering, physics, German, English Lit, History, Political Science. I overheard discussions about poetry, literature and medicine. My DH's comment was, "We could never use this crew to film a sequel to Animal House." They worked and they seemed to have a lot of fun, too. Just as I have always heard, except that I got to see it for myself.
And, they were very polite!</p>
<p>Momof3sons, I know exactly what you mean! I had a roomful (4) of my son's friends over the winter holidays. We got used to having them around....they discussed stuff like 'Is Science like a Religion?' at 2AM in the morning...as well as read, play around and have fun. Went to NYC on several occasions.</p>
<p>I actually didn't think I'd say this - but I miss those kids!</p>
<p>My husband and I had gone to India during the Thanksgiving holidays and my son had brought his friends over...they cleaned the house before leaving and actually left a lovely bouquet of flowers on the table for us with a 'Thank you' note! :)</p>
<p>Achat,
I had 10 of them here and one of my younger sons suggested doing "room draw" to see where everyone would sleep. The "visiting students" humored him by laughing. (Actually, they thought it was quite funny.) I know what you mean by missing them!</p>