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6 hours ago, frogger said:
DS is also at UAH. He is switching to all online. It just makes more sense with us being so far away. He is trying to rearrange his schedule so important labs won't be taken until the year after next. I'm sad he will be stuck at home for school but I do know this makes more sense all things considered. I'm contemplating a donation to the school even if a donation from our family will be tiny but he is tuition free and now has no room and board. Well, he ups OUR grocery bill but in the grand scheme of things just books and fees is small peanuts and I know we are blessed with steady work and a family home for everyone even if it means he leaves home a little later.
I'm going to have to rearrange my house though.
How is he feeling about it playing out this way? It will be nice to get the financial savings if nothing else.
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6 hours ago, 8FillTheHeart said:
Dd's U announced yesterday that classes are all switching to hybrids or fully online. Students can opt to take all online. She won't her actual course options for a while.
How is she handling the news?
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15 hours ago, Matryoshka said:
Yeah, she was planning on getting an apartment out near school, but if classes are online she decided she'd like to be closer to home, and especially if things get shut down. She had an apartment out there this spring when things went south, which was better than a dorm, but her roommate had to go back to her home country, and then she was left alone and felt really isolated. She came back home and it's been okay, but she'd rather be on her own. This should be her senior year, so she's hoping she can just stay in the apartment and find a job within commuting distance after graduation. I'm thinking they're going to have to let people continue online in the spring if they want to, as it's not going to be easy for anyone not in a dorm to move out there for just a the few months of spring semester.
So many unknowns. There was so much focus on this year's seniors and what they would miss, but I'm feeling worse about the kids heading for a 2021 graduation.
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2 hours ago, Matryoshka said:
Now to hear what other dd's university is doing - in the same UMass system, but it seems each school is a-doing its own thing. Fortunately that dd already has an apartment and will be in it whatever happens.
The apartment is a good idea. Will provide some continuity if things end up getting cancelled again and she will feel more adult being on her own.
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2 hours ago, fourisenough said:
Quoting myself with a quick update. DD was just offered a dream job: a new grad nurse resident position in an ICU at the Cleveland Clinic. She isn’t necessarily thrilled with having to suffer through Midwest winters again, but she knows it is an amazing opportunity to work in one of the best health systems with some of the sickest patients. So glad that she has finally gotten some good news. The uncertainty and continued cancellations of important events this spring and summer has been a real bummer, so this is an especially welcome development.
That really is awesome! My first nursing job was part of a dedicated nurse internship and it is a great way to ease into the profession.
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10 hours ago, whitestavern said:
I agree with HilltopMom, that it seems unlikely schools will be able to have in person instruction come August. Since our S signed a housing agreement indicating there would be no refund of housing if school had to pivot to online, we are now thinking maybe we just have him do online from home. I am wondering if/how that will affect merit. Could the school reduce his merit, or is that directly tied to the education portion of the invoice? Anyone know?
It's really hard to say. Not much precedent for this situation. If merit was tied to housing, I would guess there is an impact.
When the school year was cut short this year, everyone at my daughter's school got the same amount of housing cost refunded without regard to merit.
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39 minutes ago, TracyP said:
Yes, and I have spent a fair amount of time wondering why these cases are so different than what you hear in the news. Maybe viral load? I also suspect that this is more typical when testing is easier to come by and you pick up the mild cases.
FWIW, of the three people I have known personally who had Covid, two were in NYC (living right across from Central Park, actually; I visited them last August). One woman was in her early 30s, one woman in her late 50s. Mother and daughter, so they lived in the same apartment, and the mother was (is) an ER nurse. The other case was in Minnesota. Flu-like symptoms, and full recovery within 10-14 days without lingering effects.
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19 minutes ago, TracyP said:
Blood work was consistent with a bacterial infection and he made a complete turnaround 24 hours after starting an IV antibiotic. The only reason they worried about clotting was when they thought it was COVID. 🤷♀️
Yeah, that article doesn't make sense. And written with a lot of drama. I imagine that her pre-existing interest in epidemiology played a part in the way she was interpreting events.
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20 hours ago, Just Kate said:
Lol! I’m not really handy either but I want to be (does that count?). I like the idea of being handy...but, I have a lot to learn.
Honestly, if you are not handy and don't have a significant amount of cash to hire someone else to fix it, I would not do it. Your story sounds like us when we bought this house of similar size 19 years ago. Undoubtedly you will run into additional issues that need work. We thought we could learn how to do things, and it inevitably turned out that we would make expensive mistakes. I have spent almost 20 years regretting this house and feeling stuck in it.
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If it is feasible to submit an optional portion of the application, I would submit it.
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The high school here hasn't announced an official plan yet. They have floated the idea of a form of block scheduling so that there are fewer classes per day: two core classes meeting for a longer period of time per quarter, along with two electives meeting for one period.
The online learning for high schoolers here did not involve meeting a certain number of days. There was just work assigned to be done by the student as it worked best. They did have issues with students not doing the work though.
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1 hour ago, PeterPan said:
Yup, I saw that. It's pretty logical. Frankly, I don't see cruising being a thing till next spring/summer. I just don't see it. I don't know where I'm going to go for winter sun, but I don't think I'll be getting it on a cruise.
This is a huge economic blow for Southeast Alaska
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Do you feel confident that it is not hairpulling? One of mine struggled with trichotillomania around that age with small bald spots. Is it more generalized hair loss?
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This is one of those situations where if you feel the risk is too high, you just don't participate. It's reasonable to contact the leaders and tell them the specific elements that bother you as that may be helpful to them in planning future events.
It's not a scenario that would bother me at all.
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If it was in a group, it will have the "seen by". A regular post should not have that.
And not every group has their settings that way.
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When my daughter got questions like that, I advised her to name a couple of colleges similar to the one asking. She is not under any obligation to give her whole list. 🙂
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On 6/14/2020 at 10:22 AM, dmmetler said:
DD just submitted her first (to Carthage College, which ticks a lot of her boxes, but will need a really, really awesome scholarship package to make it equitable with many of her other choices). She's excited. I feel slightly nauseous.
Most of her others don't open until August 1.
How exciting, and hoping it is a positive and educational experience for her. I think there is a lot of growth and development that can develop from the process.
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I had to go to a medical appointment today in a clinic within a larger medical facility. Though I suppose our state is "conservative", the city/medical facility/staff are certainly not.
There was a sign to "check in" when you walk through the door. There were three people sitting with computers at the area, immediately adjacent to each other. I waited, and was not acknowledged. After a minute, I asked, "Do I check in here?" They looked up, asked if I had an appointment and whether I had used the hand sanitizer, and pointed me toward the clinic.
There were tables in front of the check in area for the clinic, so distancing from staff happening there. However, the staff was all sitting together, passing papers and such back and forth. No particular setup for distance in the waiting area, but it wasn't super busy either. Then I got called into a tiny room where I sat in the enclosed space immediately adjacent to a young man with a beard and loose mask to talk about insurance.
Back in the exam room, they used a standard thermometer and actually auscultated the blood pressure, so a staff member had her face by mine for a prolonged time getting the reading with the stethoscope. The provider who saw me had a loose mask that was hanging below her nose most of the time.
I do know they had a positive case at the facility just hours before, so it's not like they had no experience with the situation.
Anyway, interesting. I'm not super worried. I could have walked out if I was. Again, not a remotely conservative population at this facility.
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My Great Dane is normally with me, but, yes, daily. Yesterday a small black bear popped his head up about 10 feet from us 🙂
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Our state is mostly open, though there have been a number of events cancelled.
My daughter was out selling bracelets at an outdoor market yesterday, then we went to a friend's home to sit on the deck. Went to a baseball game the day before, where I noted that no one was masked. I talked to a local pediatrician who was there watching her son play, also unmasked. She described the struggle to keep the practice afloat during the crisis. They ultimately had to take federal money to be able to pay salaries, and she is not sure how much longer they can continue.
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9 hours ago, teachermom2834 said:
In my son's case I think the May 2021 ceremony would be fun. It is a tiny school and my ds has a close friend group, coaches, teachers, administrators, etc. he all had personal relationships with. I can see his group having a fun one year reunion celebration especially as most of them have jobs or nice grad assistant gigs and it could be fun for them to come together for a weekend to catch up (and actually have some cash in their pockets to play with). We will see how it plays out.
We have had a snafu transferring car insurance that has taken several weeks and several phone calls to resolve. So he is getting a taste of real world tasks for sure :)
I hope it works out. One year post-grad is a good time for the students to get back together. Most are not overly tied down with adult responsibilities at that point.
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9 hours ago, Melissa B said:
My dd just graduated. I am sad for her today. The university just announced yesterday that they will not hold the rescheduled graduation ceremony in July. She was homeschooled throughout and has chosen not to pursue a graduate degree at this time so this would have been her only ceremony. She has her cap and gown and the special cords she had earned. It is so disappointing. And job prospects are not great either. At least she has a part time job in her field which she really enjoys. However, it doesn't pay well enough for her to move away from home and there isn't really any opportunity for full time work or upward movement in her field if she stays with that company. So another disappointment for her. She is enjoying the freedom of not being in school or having to make any plans concerning her education. And she is hopeful job opportunities will increase as the economy begins to recover.
Oh, that is SO disappointing! Would have been special to have the experience of walking at graduation. I hope for the best for all our graduates...hoping the jobs come! Glad she can stay with you in the meantime.
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18 hours ago, teachermom2834 said:
My ds graduated in May with no ceremony of any kind. Originally the school planned an October graduation weekend but now rumor is they will combine it with the class of 2021 graduation. He has had an accounting job lined up since September 2019 to start September 2020. So all this time thinking he was all set and then this virus hit and turned everything upside down. He is still scheduled to start work in the fall, though the company has said it might be pushed to October because of covid. So hopefully it will still come through.
He has spent the time since graduation studying for his CPA exam (because of de credits he was able to complete the required coursework during his undergrad). He also picked up a job sanitizing golf carts at a country club once things started reopening and he is coaching a travel baseball team. So he is keeping busy, making some money, and working toward his CPA.
He is also taking care of things like changing his residency to where he lives now, switching off our car insurance policy to his own, etc. trying to really get independent.
My daughter's school says they will do a May 2021 grad ceremony for the 2020 class. I don't know how many parents would go if it plays out that way; sounds like something that might be fun for the students though.
Ah, those transitioning to the adult world tasks! Daughter got an insurance quote just today herself!
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18 hours ago, fourisenough said:
Yes, *sigh*, it was virtual. On the upside, the video was shared widely among family and friends, so many more got to watch it than would have been able to attend in-person. And we’ll always have a high-quality, professionally produced video of the ceremony rather than just our faulty memories to rely on! 🤪
There definitely were upsides to the way it all played out. I liked the sharing with extended family aspect too.
2020 College Graduates
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Such a sad time for people in the arts. It's a tough transition from college under the best of circumstances, especially for someone who was very connected socially at school.