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  1. Anybody has à recommendation for a vacuum cleaner?
  2. Room is tiny and fridge is minimal. I need a good water filter that is the size of a 24 ounce cup. Amy thoughts? There is literally no space for a regular Brita filter.
  3. Birds aren’t real is going to be a massive success!!!🙏
  4. Remember, we are trying to stay away from food. 😂😂😂 on a serious note, super cute!
  5. I am told no food. Categorically no food. 😞 Apparently the cafeterias are restaurant grade. So now I am scratching my head what to take. I got a couple of Clairefontaine notebooks that he loves. A royal variety of teas. Any ideas?
  6. They just started in a way. Crazy. I think he is fine, but I wouldn’t know if he weren’t. 😂
  7. Well, I am going to go see mine next week because I just don’t know how much “I am OK” I can trust. I have my reasons.
  8. I am so sorry. I hope he recovers quickly.
  9. My DS’s offers from privates were all over the place. I wouldn’t call any of them generous. CA public gave us middle class scholarship and cost of attendance at a UC with that scholarship is half the most generous private offer. So we know the only way my DS2 goes to private is my DH quitting his second job. Counterintuitive but most definitely financially a better move. What it says about the system is another question.
  10. So if one ED’s to Blair but doesn’t get it to music, will they still consider him for academic ED?
  11. When I had an HSA account, it was so restricted in amount. And you had to spend it the same year I believe. Stories like that always make me scratch my head.
  12. I don’t know much about Harvey Mudd other than they have extensive general education requirements, so that leaves not a lot of flexibility in course selection. They have a super ugly campus, which for us was an instant no, and they have way too many boys applying, also making competition much tougher for boys. Otherwise it’s an amazing program from what I have heard. I honestly think CCS math program is a dream come true. Amazing advisor who cares for students and takes them out for lunch. Small core classes designed for advanced kids with problem sets any math kid would love (hours to ponder a problem I was told), kids who have background from various math circles, research from the start, ability to take grad classes as a freshman if you wish. I mean for a kid dedicated for math, I could not think of a better place. The advisor really hand picks the kids (so a faculty gets to decide who to admit). There is a separate app with essays that are relevant for the course of study. Only for math. Other CC programs only ask for recommendations I think. As you can tell, that was the hardest program to decline for my boy. I still think it would have been a better place for my kid. Their CCS physics advisor is also ❤️. He is one of the coaches for US physics Olympiad team. That place is a gem.
  13. I don’t have an advice overall, but wanted to say splitting physics won’t be an issue at all. Your first semester is probably mechanics. Your second semester is going to be Electricity & Magnetism. Kids go on summer vacations and this sort of splitting is normal.
  14. Weird. My kid was admitted to Georgia Tech without official DE transcript. I just listed them on mine. However if I had to do this again, I would pdf unofficial de transcript together with homeschool one.
  15. I would say well! We spent a night and met up with @rzberrymom! Ran around tried to get all the things at Target only to realize the campus store has more and better things. Last time I was there was summer and the store was completely empty, so this was a shocker. Most of all he managed to get into computer science class he wanted, which is huge! And hopefully slowly he will come out of his shell and make friends and find a way to navigate life without me at the wheel. It’s going to get harder not seeing him daily, but right now I can’t process that he is gone.
  16. Dropped him off. Classes start in a week. 🤞 for a good start and a couple of good friends.
  17. No need for calculus based physics for non stem. You can do algebra based one in 9th. If you are interested in a class, I would recommend Clover Creek Physics. While she uses a conceptual physics textbook, she supplements it with algebra based problems. And with test optional I am not sure you need the score. I have seen kids with 1300 get accepted as test optional into the very elite and 1580 accepted nowhere.
  18. I would not take on a controversial topic in a college essay. My kid took a conservative economic view on one of his school English papers and the fallout was unbelievable. The attacks on him from classmates and from the teacher (who by the way wanted a well supported research paper, which it was) were eye opening. I wouldn’t be a contrarian in a college essay.
  19. Do you know what a quarter system feels like? When you buy something you really want, have to wait for months to get it, and you no longer remember why you were so excited about that purchase. 😂 Still home. On the other hand we got a very generous CA middle class scholarship.
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