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CarolynLawrence
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Posted: Tue May 29th, 2007 04:46 pm |
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Entomom, Will she also have a microwave in her dorm room? My daughter found she could really subsist independently of the dining hall food when necessary between things cooked in the microwave and a friend's rice cooker.
By the way, the last month of high school was also the most trying for my daughter. She had all sorts of mixed emotions - sadness that she would be leaving her friends and family, relief that high school was over, excitement about going off to college, and, yes, even a little fear about the unknown. Cranky is a perfect description of her attitude as senior year wore down.
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entomom
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Posted: Tue May 29th, 2007 05:52 pm |
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Carolyn, I'm not sure if they're permitted. But if they are, I'm sure she'll have one, she knows that food is not one of Michigan's strong points! Unfortunately there is no kitchen in the dorm she'll be in freshman year, she will definitely miss having an oven as she loves to bake. I have a feeling she'll move to an on or off campus apartment after a year or two. There are some university run apartments on North Campus, so that would be convenient if she goes into art or arch.
Cranky, snappish, moody.... . I'm so glad that she and her sister will be taking off for 3 weeks in the middle of summer, otherwise we would all likely end up in the hospital. I think it must be some sort of psychological mechanism which makes it easier for parents and kids to separate. While I know I'll miss her desperately at times, right now it sounds pretty good to me  .
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leftcoast
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Posted: Tue May 29th, 2007 10:20 pm |
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My son is a huge rice cooker fan. The summer he was 17, after his junior year in high school, he went to Thailand and had a 3 week homestay with a family in a rural village in Southern Thailand. The family was subsistence-level poor - their 18 year old son had lied on the forms to qualify to take in an exchange student, claiming to have a huge home with a pool... and in fact the family didn't even have a sink. My son shared a tiny room with the kid, the bathroom consisted of a hole in the floor for a toilet and a hose and a bucket for a shower.
But they had TWO rice cookers... always full -- and my son absolutely loved that famiy and that home. He wanted to stay forever. He came home and said to me, "hyoo gai" -- which essentially is Thai for "feed me" and literally means "I want rice". Apparently it was his favorite and most often used phrase. He was very excited by the rice cooker and insisted that we needed to go out and buy one immediately.
So I would agree-- it is a great appliance.
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WestrnMom
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Posted: Wed May 30th, 2007 02:21 am |
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I haven't noticed crankiness, but the kids are spending a lot more time together than they ever did before, both school friends and friends from other schools. It's as if they need to be with other kids their own ages, not family, and make some last minute memories. Although if I asked them, they would say they are just bored with school and trying to stay busy.
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mominva
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Posted: Wed May 30th, 2007 09:59 am |
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It's not crankiness here, it's absence.
DD is off with classmates, work friends, back from college friends, etc. for meals out, movie marathon sleepovers, sunning by the pool, etc. It's the stuff memories are made of.
There are 18 years of family memories already saved.
Last edited on Wed May 30th, 2007 10:01 am by mominva
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limner
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 05:27 pm |
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Just a short update. S is upstairs resting after having all four wisdom teeth out. I need to find the thread on entomom's D's experience with the same surgery. Hopefully, S will heal as quickly as EM's D!
We walked in the door to his AP test grades. He got 5s in AP Eng Lang/Comp, Human Geography, and US Pol/Govmt. The big news was the 4 in AP Calc BC with a 5 in the Calc AB subgroup. He's hoping those scores will get him out of some math next year. 
Hope everyone's having a good summer. I guess it's about time to get serious about those college shopping lists . . .
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 06:27 pm |
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| I hope your son is feeling better. Those grades will help put a smile on his face
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entomom
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 07:45 pm |
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Hi Limner, hope your son is resting comfortably! Do you have the drugs, frozen peas, pop and jello?
That's wonderful news on the AP's, great job! My D is at orientation this week and took placement tests in Chem and Spanish. She was happy to test out of first year Chem and will be able to start with Org Chem next year if she decides to go the premed route. She also tested high enough to start in third year Spanish, which is great because it counts as an honors class.
So far her schedule looks like this: arch drawing studio, Spanish, Great Books, Bio lab, Intro Linguistics and a seminar class on short story writing. She was pretty overwhelmed by all of the wonderful classes offered and doesn't quite believe me when I tell her that her schedule isn't set in stone yet, and that people add and drop during the first few weeks of school.
About buying things, I think we're going to try and take the minimalist route. We'll buy bedding and towels now and definitely order a fan. I'll send cold weather clothes and extras from home later. We did finally order the laptop (with many thanks to mackinaw  ) and D picked up the software this week. That's all she needs, right?? 
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limner
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 08:09 pm |
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Thanks, scoop and EM. He seems to be doing okay. The local anestheisa is wearing off. He's never had novocaine or an IV before (at least, not an IV he can remember), so he got a healthy dose of medical care this a.m. Right after he woke up in the doctor's office, he was feeling his lower lip and asked "What's that" (more like, "Whaazaah?") I told him it was his lower lip. "Yar kiddih?" ("Your kidding?") No, I assured him, it really was his lower lip. Poor kid.
EM, I have pop and yogurt, and frozen corn as well as freezer gel packs. He got his first dose of pain med about an hour ago, which seems to be staying down okay so far. I can't remember a thing about having my wisdom teeth out. I guess I've blocked it all.
EM, your D's schedule sounds awesome. I was envious when I read over the list of freshman seminars S gets to choose from. He's excited about picking his schedule, but decision time has arrived with an equal dose of anxiety. I think that's how it's going to be until he gets settled in: excited but anxious.
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CarolynLawrence
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 10:25 pm |
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Limner,
Glad your son made it through the wisdom teeth surgery OK. Not to alarm you, but after the first week or two, if the swelling and pain come back, get him to a doctor pronto. My daughter ended up with a painful infection three weeks after she had her wisdom teeth out. I was just chalking it up to the initial surgery, but luckily a friend who is a nurse noticed that my daughter's cheek on that side was slightly swollen and suggested I get her back to the surgeon. Infections are rare, however, but just a heads up.
Carolyn
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limner
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Posted: Sat Jul 14th, 2007 01:34 pm |
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| Carolyn, I appreciate the heads up. It would be so easy to think that a little swelling was a vestige of the surgery.
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limner
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Posted: Fri Sep 28th, 2007 10:15 pm |
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I wasn't sure the best place to put this, and I was nostalgic to see the "Class of 2011" heading again. 
Today, S received notification that he's an AP Scholar of Distinction and a National AP Scholar. This is nice to know, although I don't think anything but certificates and bragging rights come along with this--which is why I'm telling you all.
S seems to be really enjoying his classes. I think he's feeling a little easier now that he knows the lay of the academic land. He told us yesterday that he's feeling like he can handle the load. And he's made lots of friends and enjoys his work study job, which is helping faculty with computer problems.
I'd love to hear how everyone else's freshpeople are doing!
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WestrnMom
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Posted: Fri Sep 28th, 2007 10:49 pm |
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Those are great honors. You must be proud! I wondered about those too. D received several California honors (Golden State exams, and some others) AFTER graduation. What is the point then, other than to know they did it? But it is still an honor.
S is adapting very well. He made a good choice with his school, has some good involvement in areas he's interested in, has figured out how to fit in meals in another building (vs eating whenever he wanted to at home), and is meeting a lot of students. He still has no major but doesn't seem concerned (I am, he's not).
I talked to a friend whose D is having a lot of trouble adjusting to the college campus and college life, so I'm doubly relieved. I suggested she offer support to her child and remember it's probably not as bad in reality as it seems to be when they talk on the phone. S's school indicated that it takes about 6 weeks to really feel at home on campus.
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limner
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Posted: Mon Oct 1st, 2007 01:45 pm |
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WestrnMom, I'm glad to hear that your S is settling in. I wouldn't worry about the major yet. My S is taking sociology for the first time and absolutely loves it. There's a lot offered in college that wasn't available in HS, and now's their chance to sample some of that academic smorgasbord.
Carolyn, your last post about the wisdom-teeth infection caught my eye this morning. My S actually did have that exact thing happen. It was about two to three weeks after surgery and one side swelled up. We called the doctor and got him in there. Thanks!
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