<p>My S will stay on campus and take 10 qtr hours of classes. He wants to keep going full steam ahead and do really well in a course that he needs for his major. That course requires a certain grade, and he wants to be able to really concentrate on it. He and his roommate have snagged a great on-campus apartment, where each will have their own bedroom. He'll have a month off before school starts again in late September, and we might take a vacation during that time and go hiking or something.</p>
<p>I am missing him, since he hasn't been home since the end of December. I am happy that I get almost daily calls from him. He is missing us, too, and really wants us to come visit him! We will probably fly out to California to see H's elderly dad, and will see our S, too.</p>
<p>D is home for about a month during which she’s working at Panera who has kept her on their payroll and given her lots of hours. We like to tease her about bringing home the bread. In June, she goes back to school for ten weeks to do research based on a proposal she wrote last spring. Then she’s home for a few more weeks before fall semester starts. While she’s home now and not working, she’s having fun catching up with her friends who are home from college. She has also devoured too many books to count–even some Henry James. She has no time for free reading at school–she feels too guilty to read for fun there.</p>
<p>My graduating senior son and his fiance will spend a month with me and then head off to grad school. First summer they haven’t worked in four years.</p>
<p>DS, a junior, has an internship in Japan for ten weeks. Then he’ll come home and hang out for a month before school starts again in late September.</p>
<p>My daughter will be returning to a camp where she has worked as a counselor for the past two summers. She originally considered pursuing an internship near her college, but her heart is with her kids. The camp is dedicated to peace and social justice issues, and many of the campers come from very difficult home situations; she wants to be there for those kids, most of whom will age-out to the next level after this year. The pay is minimal, she’ll only be home for two days before she starts working and about a week after she’s done at camp, but the experience: priceless.</p>
<p>Just graduated S1 is home for summer for first time since started college. He needs to de-stress and take a break from studies before beginning PhD program in the fall. Is last time he will be home for an extended stay, so plan to enjoy having him around.</p>
<p>Rising senior is away for his 3rd summer internship (3rd city, 3rd employer). Yes, I know: it’s great that he has been able to pull this off. I miss him.</p>
<p>My rising senior daughter was home for a week and returned to school to move into her off campus apartment. She has an internship in the grad school related to the field she wants to pursue after she graduates.</p>
<p>D1 is staying at school and continiuing to work on her MA. She wasn’t going to, but she managed to get a teaching assistant job for the summer (she is guaranteed one during fall and winter semesters, but there are fewer classes in the summer and most MA students don’t get one).</p>
<p>D2 has been home for almost a month and still unemployed. She is hoping to get a wonderful history internernship that would start in June, but if she doesn’t she is working as a lifeguard for July and August and hopefully babysitting or something to make some $$.</p>
<p>Rising junior daughter has an internship in Washington, DC, starting on Tuesday.</p>
<p>This sounds more glamorous than it is. We live within commuting distance of Washington, so she will be living at home and traveling back and forth by car and Metro every day. She did the same thing last year for a different internship, and I think it’s getting a bit old. But with this economy, she’s lucky to have found something related to her major to do at all.</p>
<p>Son in graduate school will be staying on his campus to continue with his research – except that he gets to go to Ireland for a conference in June. He’s really looking forward to that.</p>
<p>S returns from year abroad in a few weeks. He’ll be home for less than 24 hours before he departs for his college town where he has somehow landed a nice internship. All good stuff, but I really wish he had a few days (weeks??) at home to cool his jets and rest up before the whirlwind starts again. I miss him, but remind me again that we’ve raised him to grow his own wing and fly.</p>
<p>D is returning to her job at a summer camp. At first we were inclined to make her look for something a little more forward-thinking. Now we’re just glad she has a paying job!!</p>
<p>Rising D junior will be doing an internship in NYC and teaching as well. The internship was very understanding about allowing her time to teach in a summer camp in the middle. Well, the internship is not paying her, and the teaching is, so they are happy for her. We live in NYC, so she will be living home. I’m happy for her! (And for me:) )</p>
<p>D, rising Junior (I can’t believe it), has a 6 week internship at the Louvre Museum starting June 1st, and then plans to spend a few weeks in Berlin.</p>