I just did it on Tuesday. It wasn't terribly eventful. I enjoyed the experience and will do it again in November.

Congratulations to your daughter! This is so fun and exciting. I think we can all use the hopefulness of this sort of thread!

Whoever is most likely to get it done with minimal reminders/begging ;-)

Sometimes there is simply a dynamic in a long time friendship that becomes dysfunctional/unhealthy and requires a reset. My issue was also in a friendship that began in college, when I was a different sort of personality. Think queen bee and beta bee, and I was the happy beta for a long time. But at this point in life, that role doesn't work for me. A couple years break, and we were able to relate again in a healthier way. This is different from disagreements in politics, of course. Sometimes though, those sorts of disagreements (and disrespectful behavior related to such) are just masking an underlying more fundamental relationship issue.

Excellent advice. I've had to do this. The friendship did come up strong after a couple years. Sometimes it really is about seasons of life.

I think you are right on with the top line. :-) Everyone also needs to think that "science" is on their side.

Portlandia and The Office

You can, especially if you need a fine arts credit for some reason. I would probably try to flesh out the theatre experience with some academic component, as others have suggested above. That said, if the credit is not needed, you may want to label the theater activity as an extracurricular rather than a course on the transcript.

Princeton just announced that the fall term will be fully remote. No undergrads on campus.

I graduated two homeschoolers from high school (who have since graduated from college), but have been "off" for four years. Suddenly putting together curric for a high school junior and I feel new again. So I don't know.

Well, things have probably changed a good bit since 2013, but I can tell you that my daughter got into Grinnell that year with a special package that paid for her visit there and provided a significant scholarship. No APs or honors, but she had been an exchange student to Turkey and is from a geographically distant state. Her grades were okay but not stellar. She had a perfect verbal SAT score but math brought the total down to just okay range.

Our city's Assembly approved mail-in voting (exclusively) a couple years ago, and mailing out ballots to every registered voter is precisely what happens every local election now. And the lists have not been cleaned up, so plenty of people in our very transient state are being sent ballots despite living elsewhere now. My oldest daughter has been registered to vote in two different states since living here and she still gets a ballot every election. She's probably supposed to officially notify the city that she left, but I am sure she is not alone in her failure to do so. I could have sent in three ballots in the last city election, between the daughter that has moved, my own ballot, and the college aged daughter who did not realize a city election was taking place. Apart from the possibility of that sort of fraud, there's the issue of loss of anonymity, as we are required to sign the envelope in which we send the ballot. There's a huge potential for vulnerable people to have their vote unduly influenced by campaign workers who come to their house or group living situation to give an inspirational talk and "help" fill out the ballot. Employers can insist on certain votes and proof of such. Abusive spouses can force their partners to vote in a certain way. It's all a mess and our city has definitely suffered since it was instituted. It shocks me that my more progressive friends who are generally concerned about vulnerable populations seem to have a blind spot as to the potential for abuse with this system. The line seems to be "Oh, it has worked well for years in...(name city)". I think as long as they are generally getting the results they want, they call that "working well."

He's done well, and is happy there. They have been very accommodating of his financial and home situation. He has been able to be involved in various things. When school shut down suddenly, he was allowed to stay indefinitely as he figured out an alternative for housing. They also guaranteed his annual cost for the full four years (under $1600/year) which is extremely unusual.

I haven't made it through all the replies yet, so this may have already been said. It's all a bit of a mystery, of course, but I do think it goes beyond high performing. The kid I referenced earlier really did not have any huge achievements. I did not read his essays, but I think they must have been quirky and interesting. Sometimes it's something about an individual's story that appeals to the app readers. I think something similar probably occurred with my daughter's app to her selective school. She was a busy kid, who had a lot going on, but no major achievements. She had a couple of minor hooks (female going into engineering and geographical diversity), though I would argue that there are plenty in those categories that had greater achievements than her. I'm certain that someone found her essays appealing. In your daughter's case, I'd encourage her to talk about what makes her unique and what she brings to the table as they are building a class.

We end up with our own strengths and weaknesses. 🙂Truly, many people from various places on the spectrum reproducing all the time.

Fair enough, though I did think the education shown on the show was unique and possibly helpful. 🙂

Honestly, it's hard to say not knowing her and her story. I think I have shared here about how I did not encourage (or even mention the option) to my daughter's brother in law to apply to any highly selective schools. He was an achiever, but not an obvious superstar, and money was an issue for him, so I thought his application efforts would better directed toward other sorts of schools. I helped him with his apps to many schools. In the meantime, he secretly applied to Yale and got in. There was something about his story and mix of attributes that appealed to them. He struggled to make the money work, but ended up getting awesome aid on appeal and is starting his third year there now. All that to say, it's just really hard to know how things will play out. Those schools will be lottery for everyone.

I really enjoyed it. I wish that sort of relationship education was readily available to adults on the spectrum everywhere. My dad is almost certainly on the spectrum, as is my husband, two out of three daughters and my son-in-law. I really questioned the attraction between my daughter and her husband in their early dating time but came to realize that they communicate very similarly and really "get" each other.

I'm still not clear on the symptoms. Your said your husband had a 99.7 temp? What was your son's temp? How long has this been going on? I might not be running out to be tested, depending.

I say hold off a bit. You can typically update apps with accomplishments but you run the risk of the update not connecting with the app. 🙂 4H president would be a significant accomplishment.

Apparently. In the case of my friend's parents' winter home, they do keep bricks on the toilet now when they won't be there for a time. It was a big deal (and expensive, as you can imagine, cleaning up a house with a significant infestation.)

A good friend found herself in a nightmare situation when she returned to her parents' Florida winter home after it had been unoccupied a few months. Rats had been coming in through the toilet and were everywhere. I shiver thinking about it. I bet Jean is right about their home base being in the neighbor's yard.

A lot of things have been tolerated in the past. We want to do better, right? I just find it interesting that the same people gleefully proclaiming "OK, Boomer" are typically the same ones decrying other sorts of injustice. There are inconsistencies in all sorts of human activity, of course. It's fascinating to observe though.

I'm just smiling because I know the precise airport scenario to which you are referring 🙂 We tend to pull down to one of the "other" airline's sections, haha

Thanks for the history. I wanted to assume good intent since I really did not know. There's the misogynist element. I also see an increasing tolerance of ageism, with the Karen meme coming on the heels of the "OK, Boomer" response.