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23 minutes ago, linders said:
Oh, Lisa, that you are laughing is amazing. It sounds like a scavenger hunt.
When we moved 10 years ago the only - only! - piece of furniture that I told the company was precious was my piano. My first purchase as an adult, and I spent a ridiculous sum to have a nice one. Make sure you have piano movers! Make sure they have a piano dolly! Guess the company heard "blah, blah."
So what is the one piece of furniture that they dropped?? Cost half as much as the original piano to repair.
I guess it is a scavenger hunt. Although, this one goes something like: Missing half the shelves? Well, set the legs there, and when we find the rest of the parts you can finish putting it together.
I'm so sorry about the piano! I can only imagine (we moved my childhood piano ourselves. This move marks the 7th time I've helped to move it (14, if you count the packing and the unpacking ...ha!) The piano is older than I am -- probably about 70-80 years -- so it's been moved a lot!
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Thanks everyone... the saga continues today. I had to leave around 3pm yesterday to take two of the girls to practice -- the movers and my husband gave up trying to figure out what anything was, so it's all been dropped wherever there was floor space. 😂 We are starting in the garage today (I know, weird place to start). The garage also houses my laundry room. There are about 12 nice plastic garage shelving sets that are buried out there... and we can't put anything away until those are up. So -- we have to empty the garage.
After that, I expect we'll move a few of the things to where we know they will be and then stack boxes around the perimeter of the rooms, so we can put together a couch to sit on. Then, probably fix the rest of the beds -- and then let the kids work on putting their clothing away.
The randomness as to how everything was packed escapes me. Two of my couch feet (not sure where the others are) were in a bedroom dresser. My oldest started putting together a set of corner shelves. The box contained all of the legs, and half the shelves. We don't know where the other shelves are. In some ways, I feel like you have to really try to pack this badly.
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12 hours ago, EmseB said:
The only other move I've heard of going that badly in my military circles was also from Italy. His packing was going so badly that he made them stop and called the inspector and they had to get a new company mid move. It was obvious things, like packing a ceramic wall hanging in a giant box by itself with no paper or anything.
I heard that story -- in hind sight, we should have just stopped everything too.
11 hours ago, Plum said:I had a move once where we had to have the moving company put our stuff in storage for a couple of months. We had many items on the list that were vaguely labeled. By the time we got our stuff, some things were missing. We had 6 months to remember what was missing and request a reimbursement. At about 5 months, I realized one of the "large boxes" missing was an unopened 2 room tent.
Sorry so much was broken. 😞
I haven't been able to determine if we are missing anything yet -- so far, the most we've noticed are "extra" things that were packed in our things, but are not ours (a random coffee cup, a strange coke-a-cola flask? We have 75 days to file a claim
8 hours ago, MercyA said:I am so very sorry. We once shipped our car cross-country with our household goods. When it arrived, we found that things had been piled on top of our car in the moving truck, leaving huge scratches, and that they had put someone else's lawnmover *in our trunk*, leaving it full of grass! And lots of furniture was scratched up, too, as I recall. But that was nothing compared to your story!
Hugs to you!
OH no!! Our car(s) are supposed to be shipped separately and empty (we didn't ship a car this time). That does not sound pleasant!
6 hours ago, moonflower said:It's too bad you can't pack things yourself and then get reimbursed for what they would have paid the movers - saving money and getting a better result! It just seems like it would make so much more sense that way.
505 boxes! That alone would make me beyond crazy with moving. We move a lot too - at least a dozen times since we've been married - but we're minimalists so we tend to have like 20 boxes, maybe. We do a lot of soft packing - clothes and stuffed animals and the like - in very strong, industrial quality clear plastic trash bags. I don't know whether that would survive an overseas move but it works really well for our purposes because you can see right away where the bag goes.
The whole pack yourself part appeals to me more now than ever before. I packed up my books (because of our prior moving experience), so our school stuff would be easier for me to find. I put all of the decor in one spot, packing up anything that we had original packaging for (figurines, things like that)Part of the problem is that they took stuff I had in certain drawers and packed it in boxes (like clothing), we did have stuffed animals in clear plastic bags. Many of the drawers were then shipped empty. If I had been packing, the linens, towels, sheets, pillows, blankets would have been "packed" into the empty bookshelves, clothes and other soft goods packed inside dresser drawers. That would have saved a lot of container space (and shipping weight. We still haven't found most of my silverware -- we've found bits and pieces in various boxes, and the Longaberger basket we kept it in (my dishware was all on top of an open counter, as we didn't have drawer space). None of this makes any sense.
2 hours ago, J-rap said:Wow, that sounds crazy! We've moved quite a few times, but never with much stuff. Our next move will be a different story (whenever THAT happens!). The bad experiences you all have had make me nervous!
The only time I've had to deal with insurance companies and damaged items was when our home flooded due to pipes bursting in the winter. It was a long process taking photos of every single damaged item, looking up replacement costs, etc., but at least we were reimbursed 100%.
Oh, I miss the days of one large U-haul trailer...lol I do expect over the next several years many of my books will be leaving me as my youngest grows up. As they move out, they will hopefully take some of their own books (also reducing my collection). I had two very large bookshelves of books to get rid of before we left Italy...I expect I will lose at least that much again in the next four years.
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14 minutes ago, prairiewindmomma said:
This was my last move. The claim paid out $,$$$ which was laughable considering how much flat out never arrived. We did find a really fantastic furniture restorer.
I may not have a couch to sit on until this all gets through the insurance. There is just so much. I guess we need to re-focus our efforts on unpacking/sorting/repacking what needs to be repacked to figure out what survived and worry about getting everything really functioning later. This insurance claim is going to be awful. I'm not sure how DH is going to sign off on the paperwork (we have this sheet of "no number" -- and at the end we're supposed to count the empty spots and guess what is there or not there? At this point, I may tell DH just to make sure all of our HVG are actually there and accounted for, and well, if random stuff is missing we'll have to deal with it later.
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17 minutes ago, WendyLady said:
We moved this summer as well. This move has gone surprisingly well, but the move before this one, I had a large collection of totes like you (your #'s 55-70). They were dumped into random boxes and the totes were stacked in a nice tidy stack. It was beyond frustrating and made finding things impossible. Craft items dumped in with baby memory boxes. Table cloths labeled as blankets, boxed with a couple of blankets, and all of my sewing thread. It took me a full year to get things back in order. Just in time to move again. That had never been in issue with any of our previous 8 moves....
This time I very specifically asked the movers to keep items in the totes! It worked!!
I'm so so sorry about your beautiful furniture. They better figure out a way to make it right for you!!
That's about how I feel right now. I think we've found all of the spices... but you never know! One would think the spices (that are all in the same cabinet in the kitchen) could be found in say one or two boxes? FOUR. Spices have been in FOUR different boxes. I wish I could say I couldn't imagine what it would be like to have someone dump the bins -- but I do (maybe not as badly as yours -- I had all of my school supplies in nice stacking bins (one for pencils, one for crayons, acrylic paints...etc. etc.) I opened this box of all of my stacking bins... which are now EMPTY. I have yet to open the boxes labeled "school supplies" out of sheer fear. I *hope* they are all in the same box, but if they packed my school supplies anything like they packed my spices, I'm done for.
I've taken to putting the boxes of randomness into the dining room. I'm going to have to unpack, sort, and repack some things -- it's going to take awhile, and it's the room with the most "free" space.
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In the world of moving -- you can't make this stuff up -- we're winning.
So, they packed up my house in Italy in June. This isn't my first rodeo (I've moved 17 times in 50 years). We are on Day two (probably will finish getting stuff off the truck around 8pm tonight), however, we will be a long, long way from being moved in.
Here's the thing... you know how you put things into boxes (usually things that belong in the same room, or are at least of the same type)? Well, it's fairly customary to you know, LABEL the boxes with what room they go to, and maybe what is in them. About 20-25% of my boxes are either missing labels or are completely and utterly miss-labeled. How bad is it? Let's start with the minor things:
- Box #4 -- Girls' Room -- Box Spring (on the inventory sheet), in the box? Mattress.
- Box #5 -- Girls' Room -- Mattress (on the inventory sheet), in the box? Box Spring.
- Items 55-70 -- Plastic Tote (every line on the inventory sheet says plastic tote -- these totes contained everything from school records, to clothes to cassette tapes, to electrical cords, home decor, to doll clothes to garden tools -- one of the totes that I had packed was already labeled "Blankets" -- but nothing was put on the inventory or on the outside wrapper-- you get the idea).
- Box #35 -- Plasticware (in the box -- CHINA)
- Box #235 -- Linens (in the box -- DVDs, remotes, etc. We still have no idea where our sheets and blankets are...let alone towels.)
- Not in a box...just loose in the crate... a collectible LEGO set (probably about $60 new, now valued at $100+). Needless to say, it came open during shipment and LEGOs are everywhere. I doubt we have all of the pieces. It was the ONLY set my son didn't hand-pack, he figured it would be okay since it was, you know, IN a box. All they would have to do is either put it inside one of the other 500+ boxes they packed or wrapped up...but no.
- They packed my Waterford Crystal in a manner I've never seen... unwrapped, in between items that were wrapped. And, in other news... how do you break glasses that are packed in their original package? You know, the kind with styrofoam?
To put the sheer amount of how bad this is into perspective -- we have 505 boxes on the inventory sheet (not including all of the random stuff wrapped and stuffed inside things like book cases). At 20-25% completely wrong (I am being conservative), that leaves us with 100-150 boxes/bins we either have had to open to figure out where they go, or once we open them, have to move them somewhere else entirely. The only thing that is keeping the number this low, is the fact I packed 95% of the books myself (we probably have about 50-75 boxes of books). I had also packed all of my clothes into my dresser (apparently, they removed the stuff I put in the drawers, boxed it up somewhere else -- and then packed the drawers with other stuff???). That may go up as we open boxes to look for broken things (you know, the stuff I can't put away because my furniture that was supposed to hold them is... well... broken).
We bought a grand total of 5 pieces of NICE Italian furniture (3 pieces are antiques, 2 are more modern). Thus far two of the antiques are broken and one of the modern pieces is destroyed -- but the Ikea Billy shelves made it just fine (I can't even...) My purple Italian sofa bed is in 5 pieces (not including the cushions). I have no idea if that can be put together again (ETA: Nope, it's broken beyond repair. One of the major frame boards is broken and through the fabric) 😞
This too, shall pass -- on the bright side, my bed is off the floor. Meanwhile, photographing and adding the broken things to a very long list for this moving claim. I thought the one from moving to Italy was long -- but it really wasn't. We just lost a few large $$ items (punched whole in a $800 sectional, broke my Waterford pitcher, a couple of inexpensive dressers and the kids' play kitchen). The breakage coming back is much more extensive and in some ways harder to replace in kind/quality. Wish me luck -- it's going to be a very, very long weekend.
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It's move-in week -- I'm not sure how much I'll be around.
We closed on our house on Friday. Drove to Fredericksburg to buy a car in Manassas, and rent a U-haul to take the things from my parent's house. Sunday, we packed the truck, drove to VA Beach and packed the truck with more, and got to our new house in Hampton around 8:30 at night, made a rapid dash to unload the truck, and get the internet set up because...
- Debate class (online this morning -- make up class for a student who missed on Friday)
- Shower/get ready
- Get stuff that was hastily removed from the truck (so we could access the beds) and move it to where it actually goes (vs. the center of the family room)
- Finish unloading the truck (ha -- I don't have to do that, but it's happening under my watch) Piano/washer & dryer
- Return the UHaul, get some food
- Go shopping, so we can prepare to unpack the kitchen tomorrow, get some pillows, dishes, you know... necessary things).
The next few days are going to be a complete and utter blur.
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On 7/9/2019 at 11:57 AM, ILiveInFlipFlops said:
I just wanted to update here and say that I ended up coordinating the TGC videos with Spielvogel myself. BUT! I also figured out how to get myself registered with Cengage as a teacher (it's a process, but they are very helpful and willing to work with homeschoolers), and that connected me to a whole bunch of teacher resources, including test banks and essay questions, and access to the MindTap for the class. So if you're looking into using Spielvogel (or any Cengage resource, really), consider contacting them to get registered as a teacher.
If you call, they'll email you a form to fill out and submit via fax (actually, I might be able to upload it here, but it's on my other laptop--I'll try later). I also included a letter stating which resource I want to use, and when they set up my account, they connected that at the same time, so it was all there waiting for me. Then they emailed me my login info. It took a little time to figure out just how to use it all, but now we're rolling.
HTH someone!
I actually use several Cengage texts... this would be incredibly helpful
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1 hour ago, skimomma said:
I taught at a university for 13 years and often had assignments that were due before the first day of class. It was/is not at all uncommon in my department and students did not complain......to me, anyway. Some of my classes were flipped (they watch my lecture via recorded video before class so we can use class time for hands-on/group/interactive work) and I needed the students to watch the lecture before arriving at the first class. And usually lecture videos were followed by a short assignment to encourage them to actually watch the lecture. Even in non-flipped classes, I often had reading assignments before the first class with some graded deliverable attached. Had someone come to me that clearly had no idea this was a thing, I am sure I would allow an extension, just as I did for late adds.
In my son's case... it was 4 hours of work which required both the book and internet access. The assignment was posted around noon on Sunday prior to his 9am class on Monday (he did set up notifications, so as soon as it was posted, he knew about it and checked it). He was one of I'm guessing very few people in his 200-person class who did it (based upon what the prof said) The prof essentially bumped the due date until Wednesday. His chem class is flipped as you describe. Had we been traveling back from NC (which wouldn't have been out of the question), he would not have had an opportunity to complete the work until late at night.
I don't think the complaint is so much about assignments, but of a lack of notice for assignments. Adults (and students) make plans based upon what we know is happening -- I don't know anyone who sits around just in case an assignment (or in my case a job) shows up and we need to turn it around in less than 24 hours... especially on the weekend. An assignment due the first day of class should have more than 19 hours notice (which includes normal sleeping hours) to allow students the opportunity to schedule around it. As my son is also an athlete, he has to practice at 6am, and would go straight from practice to class.
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100 mile round trip for swimming (left at 0530 -- still at the pool, but almost done)
Public Forum Debate Class Prep (actually kind of fun -- doing this intermittently from the hotspot here at the pool). Hot spot tested 😄
- ensure video links are converted and uploaded to Youku, add new links to course document.
- ensure I have enough activities to fill 90 minutes with 2-6 students (introductory, skill exercises, topic ideas)
- plan the 90 minute class (When/where we are taking 5 minute breaks; highlight interactive activities; ensure homework is planned and understandable)
- upload documents/ppt to class server
- Upload Day 2, just in case things run TOO fast.
Assist w/ College Applications (does this ever end???)
Laundry/Pack
Go to dinner with my dh (returning to where it all began -- the scene of our first date 23 years ago).
Pick up son from college at 10pm!
Get back, go to sleep -- because I have to get up early for my class in China :D)
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I just make judicious use of the delete button. Most ads/promotions go right in the trash -- unless it's something I'm planning to buy or shop (for example, I get at least one weekly email from Michael's -- not going, no time to purchase -- don't bother opening, just trash it). Once we move into our house and as we get closer to fall, I will start looking at ads a bit more with an eye toward Christmas.
News/blog updates -- I may keep those hanging around to read during a dead period of time. But, they wind up trashed (read or not the next day). I'm not going to die if I miss a good article.
Business/Work related emails always get opened -- then immediately trashed or moved to where they need to be (especially, if it's something I can't deal with at the moment).
I probably don't read 90% of my emails, and trash them unread. The other 10% usually gets opened and scanned. I don't have time to worry about non essential things I might be missing.
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There are still issues with the demographic information being utilized. In some areas a zip code may be a monolithic reference to a certain lifestyle (90210). In other areas, not so much. You still have people living in poverty sharing zip-codes with multi-million dollar homes (I think this is most often in what used to be rural areas that have become absorbed by major metropolitan cities (Northern VA for example). The same zip code can contain an excellent elementary school and a not-so-great one. Those kids almost all wind up at the same high school (what is funny, the school our old home was zoned for was further away than a different school -- if we were one street over, we'd be slotted for the closer high school). Our new high school graduates 89% of their students, but only 15% participate in SAT/ACTs and roughly 20% participate in AP courses. My child(ren) are going to be a HUGE anomaly if we are being compared to the students there.
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Wow, that would be really upsetting. I can only imagine what is going on. Unreasonable professors are a royal thorn in my side. I had one -- one I tried to avoid and got stuck with a second time. I should have filed a formal complaint and didn't. One of my regrets.
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On 8/26/2019 at 5:52 PM, Sebastian (a lady) said:
I think all that any student can do is to do their best to present their case as a future part of a college's student body. That is based on records of past performance and the admissions office's best assessment of their potential.
Some will have no problem saying yes based on what she has. Some will be willing to consider alternative references. Some will steadfastly want to see specifically what they ask for.
It sounds like she has had strong academic results and swimming results. It will be up to the schools to decide how to evaluate the fact that this was done without outside teaching and coaching.
You may want to address this head on in in your School Profile and Counselor Letter.
She should contact the academy and ROTC to ask about her options for other inputs (even assistant coaches or family friends who can address her maturity might be welcome).
She should ask other schools if there is an option of an interview.
If she is quite interested in being a Naval Officer, some students apply for USNA as college freshmen or join a Navy ROTC unit as a non-scholarship college program student and then apply for the next year's scholarship cycle. Since the application opens in March and the first board is in August, some students applying the summer before college can get most or all of freahman year covered.
I apologize for details of her situation I'm missing. We are in the midst of a move and have only been visiting the board occasionally. It sounds like a lot has been happening for your family that I haven't kept up on.
We are seeing what we can do WRT interviews in lieu of LORs, or other individuals who might suffice. Full disclosure -- NROTC/AFROTC are only really being looked at for schools she may not swim for, or wouldn't have sufficient scholarship money (for example, she will receive full-tuition+++ from LU and VA Wesleyan, needs ROTC for VMI/Princeton/Dartmouth. She would most likely not do ROTC at a school it was not a financial necessity, and join post grad instead. The nomination applications are underway, but thusfar, we still have not heard back from the Senators' offiices regarding substitutions to the specific LORs, nor has she heard back from the biology teacher (two emails, two weeks). Thus far all attempts at a math evaluation/rec have been a bust.
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Laundry (done)
School with kiddos
College app stuff (found everything I need for the transcript requests for the DoDEA school!!)
Swimming
Testing out a 4G hotspot in a Zoom meeting (where, I hope he tells me that I can officially start the full time job in about 5 days). This test is for recurring online courses I teach in China/Vietnam/Korea (speech and debate...seems I'm going full circle back to my roots).
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Leave at 530am to drive 50+ miles to swim practice. Get stuck on the bridge due to an accident. Watch the sunrise over the bay from my turned-off car. Skip the last 30 minutes of practice once traffic starts moving, go to a farmers market and ooh and ahh and buy stuff I wasn't going to, because they had meat at half price....hold myself back from buying more. Drive back to VA Beach, stopping at CFA, because we're hungry. - Discover a huge pile of dirty clothes that apparently didn't get included in the weekend laundry (all of my stuff?). Run a load of laundry I hadn't planned to, but just relieved because I've found all of my missing clothing!
- Start working on administrative tasks (cleaning up my computer files, lesson planning plans, answer emails)
- Help DD with college app stuff (nag, nag, nag some more).
- Pack some more things.
- Leave at 2pm to drive 50+ miles to HOPEFULLY attend swim practice this afternoon. Meander back in time to pick up the birthday boy after his evening lab gets out at 7:30pm.
- I will be going to bed when I get home around 8pm. Because I have to get up for morning practice again tomorrow.
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On 8/25/2019 at 8:23 PM, Snoopytwo said:
Yep, my son is a freshman. His classes start tomorrow. He has an assignment for his chem class that has to be completed before tomorrow. And,... the professor just posted it this weekend!
Do our sons go to the same school, with the same prof? This happened to us too!
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- Dog Food Recipe (done)
- Dog Food Prep
- Laundry put away/pack (2 loads)
- Debate Class Prep (teach my first debate class in 10 years to a group of Chinese kids on Friday)
- Dental Appointments (new dentist...always fun)
- Pack up office area
- Work on common ap (so dreading this!)
- Swimming (all afternoon...)
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8 minutes ago, Quill said:
Why do some companies put up their ads without salary information? I mean, let’s not be coy about it: I’m only looking to work because I require money. How are either of us helped by you (the company) putting zero information about the salary - at least the salary range - you intend to pay the employee you’re looking for? I don’t want to waste my time. You don’t want to waste your time. So can we just be frank about the pay?
That is all.
AMEN! That has been incredibly frustrating for me as well.
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3 hours ago, Sebastian (a lady) said:
WHY would she take the ASVAB?
I have two sons on 4 year Navy ROTC scholarships and I have been a Naval Academy BGO for many years. An ASVAB is not part of that application process.
If a Navy recruiter is asking here to take an ASVAB she should poke at why.
Thanks, I clarified with DD -- she wrote it down as "something she would have to do" -- but understood that it wasn't part of the application process. I didn't understand her note in that way. Misunderstanding on my part cleared up.
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Food prep:
- Fresh fruit salad (done)
- Breakfast Burritos (trying a new chorizo sausage, subbing riced cauliflower for potatoes) (done -- cauliflower is a keeper, especially for DH and me)
- Guacamole
- Taco meat & other sides
(we're prepping some food for the week. Oldest heads to college all day, no food plan -- so trying to make sure he has enough food as he's in training, so we need to make sure he's getting enough calories and protein throughout the day that is easy to eat cold or reheat --- he has a lunchbox that would normally fit enough food for three people!)
Freezer/fridge clean out (moving in about 7 days, need to make a good inventory of what we have in the freezer here, to make sure we use it or plan to use it soon)
Laundry (2 more loads)
Bathroom Cleaning
Kitchen Floors
Prep for my Friday Debate Class (I'm teaching speech and debate to Chinese students).
Help DD with more college stuff (I've been avoiding the common ap, but apparently we can't get out of it this year 😞 )
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I'm so sorry for your family's loss. Even under the worst circumstances and broken relationships, losing family members is never easy. My prayers are with you all.
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49 minutes ago, FriedClams said:
1. Deep breath. It'll be ok! Really.
2. I'd contact the academies and see if there's a rep near you that you could meet with. This can help a ton with the process and connection for a recommendation. I'd have your student take the initiative on connecting and setting up a meeting. Go beyond the fairs. Grads (I'm one) and reps love to talk about their academies and love initiative. Recruiting helps but she still has to get in.
3. Overall, I'd recommend emphasizing your student's uniqueness. The competitive colleges see A TON of similar, highly qualified candidates. What makes your student special IS the weirdness of your journey. Celebrate it. She's smart, capable, and has walked an interesting path - communicate that. She needs to also. You have opportunities with the educational statement and she can do it in her essays. It's the time to share your journey.
4. If she's a junior - seek out the academy summer programs. Highly recommended.
Hope that helps! Really, don't underestimate her LIFE. It's far too interesting to stick in the standard box and that's A GREAT thing for selective colleges. Hang in there!!
Thank you so much for this -- it's exactly what I needed to hear. She hasn't had a typical high school experience (or even a typical homeschool highschool experience). Yes, I'm having her do all the contacting (unless it's financial aid questions, I typically handle those as they involve letters of professional judgement type things -- scholarship questions are hers). Thank you!!
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4 hours ago, lewelma said:
DS had a real problem finding a STEM recommendation for MIT (required 1 STEM and 1 Humanities). DS is self taught. His online chem teacher was in chemotherapy and his 2 math profs didn't know him from Adam. He ended up asking the team leader who took him to Hong Kong for a Math Competition 2 years before, who was only 24 and doing a PhD at Pitt. Haha. But it was all we had. He asked what he should write about, and we gave him a list as we figured that he had never been asked to write a recommendation before. We suggested things like Maturity for travelling at 15, Stress management for dealing with a competition he was going to fail, Persistence for working for so many years towards this goal, etc. He was *very* appreciative that we gave him a list. So perhaps pick someone who has worked with your dd even years before, and then put together a list of ideas to kind of help it along.
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Thank you for the idea... that pot is way too far removed (she would have been 11, and she is very much not the same timid 11 year old girl they knew :D). She is using one of our former team coaches (one of my assistant coaches), though. We are stretching... and reaching!! I may have found a local math instructor who may give her an evaluation -- she'll have to sit down with the teacher at minimum for a couple of hours, but I think that would be enough for her to figure out what her math aptitude is (I don't speak math beyond Geometry/Alg 2, so PonyGirl might like the opportunity to discuss fancy math terminology with someone who truly appreciates it!)
It's so bad we're out of tears and are left laughing...
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Thank you -- I hope so, too. Muddling through....