Colleen27
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- Joined
- Mar 31, 2007
Last college visit is done, and we have a decision:
San Francisco it is! I had a feeling this was going to be how it went, and sure enough... DD wasn't wowed by Bryn Mawr. We ended up having to cut our trip shorter than I'd originally planned, but DD felt like she saw enough. It didn't feel connected enough to the city for her, though there is a train into Philly, and the bi-co/tri-co arrangement made it feel less like a women-only environment, which was the main appeal of Wellesley in her view. Which is a mixed blessing - USF is going to cost us more, but I'm more confident of their programs in both of her fields of study. But it is nice to have the decision made at last!
Making a decision was a bright point in a tough week. My FIL passed away unexpectedly last week, and DD is taking it fairly hard. They were really close and she knew this was likely to be her last Easter at home, so she was supposed to be cooking with him on Friday and Saturday and making a really big deal of it. He passed in his sleep on Thursday night. So Easter was a mess - MIL didn't feel up to company, with all of the arrangements to be made and well-wishers stopping in to check on her, so we had the holiday here. I never host, so it was entirely improvised and ended up being a nice time but not the big "last holiday living at home" that DD was planning, and she's so stressed about missing school next week for the visitation and funeral with the AP exams coming up so fast. But the girls seem to be leaning on one another, and we did end up doing her last (or not - she still wants a few shots with her bunnies) senior picture shoot yesterday as scheduled, which I think was a nice break for her since we did them in a park she really loves and went out for a nice dinner afterwards. Fortunately this is our spring break week, so she's got a few days of breathing room before she has to get back to the grind.
San Francisco it is! I had a feeling this was going to be how it went, and sure enough... DD wasn't wowed by Bryn Mawr. We ended up having to cut our trip shorter than I'd originally planned, but DD felt like she saw enough. It didn't feel connected enough to the city for her, though there is a train into Philly, and the bi-co/tri-co arrangement made it feel less like a women-only environment, which was the main appeal of Wellesley in her view. Which is a mixed blessing - USF is going to cost us more, but I'm more confident of their programs in both of her fields of study. But it is nice to have the decision made at last!
Making a decision was a bright point in a tough week. My FIL passed away unexpectedly last week, and DD is taking it fairly hard. They were really close and she knew this was likely to be her last Easter at home, so she was supposed to be cooking with him on Friday and Saturday and making a really big deal of it. He passed in his sleep on Thursday night. So Easter was a mess - MIL didn't feel up to company, with all of the arrangements to be made and well-wishers stopping in to check on her, so we had the holiday here. I never host, so it was entirely improvised and ended up being a nice time but not the big "last holiday living at home" that DD was planning, and she's so stressed about missing school next week for the visitation and funeral with the AP exams coming up so fast. But the girls seem to be leaning on one another, and we did end up doing her last (or not - she still wants a few shots with her bunnies) senior picture shoot yesterday as scheduled, which I think was a nice break for her since we did them in a park she really loves and went out for a nice dinner afterwards. Fortunately this is our spring break week, so she's got a few days of breathing room before she has to get back to the grind.