COLLEGE?!?
Last night my daughter attended her very first college level class!
Whoa! I am NOT ready for this.
Over the last few months we have been looking at schools and gathering information, and we’ve been talking a lot about it. But it didn’t seem ‘real’ yet.
After all the talking, she made a final selection of the university she wanted to go to. It’s a big, hard-to-get-into state university. Some of her friends applied to go here, and some applied to go elsewhere. I was proud that she didn’t just pick the same place her best friend did.
We went to visit the university, her first school of choice, and while we were there she even went out to a frat house and a few other places with one of her friends who already is attending the university.
So we have been slowly easing ourselves into the idea that my daughter is not only old enough to be doing this, but actually WILL BE ATTENDING college next summer. But even then, it still didn’t seem quite ‘real’ yet.
She sent in her application (helping her fill it out was just plain weird) and waited.
By the time the decisions were due to come out she was a nervous wreck. On the day they were to be released, some of her friends asked if she’d received her letter yet. As she hadn’t, she called me and asked me to call the admissions office and see when the letters went out.
I found out that letters had only gone out that day and the day before. But I was told that we could also look it up on their website after 5:00pm that day. The mail came and no letter arrived, so we waited for 5:00pm to come.
At 5:15pm (we had to wait for my wife to return from work) we all sat anxiously around the computer, and my daughter started to log in. Got an error message saying she was already logged in. She tried again, and got the same error message. I told her to ‘log out’ first, then log back in.
It worked. On the third try, she got in. As the page loaded, we only got as far as seeing the word “Congratulations!” appear before she jumped up and started screaming. We all did.
And to be honest, even though in the back of my head I thought, ‘she GOT ACCEPTED! so why am I so excited? this means she’ll be away as of June’ it still just didn’t hit me.
After all this, and even though she signed up to do dual-enrollment (high school with college courses) on Tuesday, it was her actually going to this class last night that has somehow really made it OFFICIAL.
My daughter has now attended her first college class!
I am STILL not ready for this.
Whoa! I am NOT ready for this.
Over the last few months we have been looking at schools and gathering information, and we’ve been talking a lot about it. But it didn’t seem ‘real’ yet.
After all the talking, she made a final selection of the university she wanted to go to. It’s a big, hard-to-get-into state university. Some of her friends applied to go here, and some applied to go elsewhere. I was proud that she didn’t just pick the same place her best friend did.
We went to visit the university, her first school of choice, and while we were there she even went out to a frat house and a few other places with one of her friends who already is attending the university.
So we have been slowly easing ourselves into the idea that my daughter is not only old enough to be doing this, but actually WILL BE ATTENDING college next summer. But even then, it still didn’t seem quite ‘real’ yet.
She sent in her application (helping her fill it out was just plain weird) and waited.
By the time the decisions were due to come out she was a nervous wreck. On the day they were to be released, some of her friends asked if she’d received her letter yet. As she hadn’t, she called me and asked me to call the admissions office and see when the letters went out.
I found out that letters had only gone out that day and the day before. But I was told that we could also look it up on their website after 5:00pm that day. The mail came and no letter arrived, so we waited for 5:00pm to come.
At 5:15pm (we had to wait for my wife to return from work) we all sat anxiously around the computer, and my daughter started to log in. Got an error message saying she was already logged in. She tried again, and got the same error message. I told her to ‘log out’ first, then log back in.
It worked. On the third try, she got in. As the page loaded, we only got as far as seeing the word “Congratulations!” appear before she jumped up and started screaming. We all did.
And to be honest, even though in the back of my head I thought, ‘she GOT ACCEPTED! so why am I so excited? this means she’ll be away as of June’ it still just didn’t hit me.
After all this, and even though she signed up to do dual-enrollment (high school with college courses) on Tuesday, it was her actually going to this class last night that has somehow really made it OFFICIAL.
My daughter has now attended her first college class!
I am STILL not ready for this.
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