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She doesn’t have an account on here, so I asked for her. She’s done quite a bit of research on her own, but international organizations can feel a little sketchy. So, we were hoping someone knew of a legit organization.
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My daughter’s university is shockingly short on volunteer opportunities, and she misses being able to help others.
So, can anyone recommend a good short-term volunteer service trip for over the summer? Maybe a few weeks? Open to any location, and she’d love something like working with kids.
I can pick something from GoAbroad, but I thought I’d check first to see if anyone has any experience with one.
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Ahhhh, perfect!! Having the username helped me find the thread: https://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/361425-aops-or-college-algebratrig/
Thanks!!
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I have looked and looked and looked. Does anyone know where to find the old post where someone broke down which of the AOPS Intermediate Algebra chapters fall under precalculus? I can guess which they are, but I remember that thread had so much good info!! I checked if it’s a sticky and didn’t see it. Thanks!!
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Ok, it sounds like I definitely need to get her to a new stable. Thanks all! I really had no idea if I was being a nutty helicopter parent!
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I should have said I really only need opinions from the horse people. All my non-horse mom friends think this is as insane as I do. 😂
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Funny question for experienced horse people, but how often should I expect that a kid will be bucked off her horse??
She’s been riding since she was six and is now 14. At our first stable, she was barely ever bucked. We moved to another state right around covid, it was hard to find anyone who would take a new kid during covid, and so we had to settle for a place that seems lax with horse safety.
The kids are bucked off all.the.time. They have stickers on the back of their helmets for each time they are thrown. The arenas are sand (we’re close to the beach), so the kids swear it doesn’t hurt much.
It all seems weird to me. Is this normal??It’s cheap at this stable. The kids all muck stalls to help pay, the horses are all rehabbed. I love that it’s a bunch of working class families, so nothing is expensive and snobby and exclusive. The kids are so wonderful, and I let this go on too long and they’re family to my kid now.
But she’s thrown about every other week. The last time, she came inches from being kicked in the head. She’s getting tough and strong, and she can handle some crazy horses by now. But I HATE watching all these kids get thrown.
I’m the overprotective mom in the group. It’s just me that feels this way. I’ve talked to the owners—they’re wonderful, but I’m the odd one that thinks this is weird. Nothing is going to change.
So, do I need to get over it and let her be? Or is this as bizarre as I think it is? It will be like a horrible break-up to take her away from there, so I’m struggling so much with this. 😔
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I think taking at least one dual enrollment class REALLY helps. That way, he’ll already have the hang of asking for help, going to office hours, navigating a campus, emailing professors, using Canvas, etc. The stress of transitioning to living alone is plenty for a kid to deal with, so I think it’s nice to already feel confident about the things above.
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16 hours ago, SanDiegoMom said:
My son committed to UCLA yesterday! Then he went and declined the rest of the schools he was accepted to. Berkeley was the toughest to find the withdrawal button - we joked that they probably couldn't believe someone would be declining admission! The rest were much easier to find. 🙂
Congrats!!!!!🎉 Almost all of my kids’ friends at UCLA turned down Berkeley. One even turned down a Regents there!? I went to Berkeley in the 90s and that would have been unheard of. The tide has definitely turned!!!
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That sounds awful for your DD!! My kiddo also dealt with a drunken roommate for 3-4 months. The girl would party until 5am, then sleep all day and get mad when my DD came home in the middle of the afternoon since it woke her up. Their university records almost all lectures, which makes it easier to skip class to recover from the partying. A terrible cycle. We had to jump through a ton of hoops to get her out of the room but we finally did.
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The students at UCLA sell everything to each other. Freshman and sophomores are in triple rooms that were built as doubles—have a spare $2000 and you can find someone to switch with you. Need someone to hold a spot in a class for you? That’s another $500. It makes me sick. It’s all over Reddit and I’ve been waiting for someone to get them in a sting operation.
On the other hand, my kid is THRILLED she’s at a school where no one bought their way in, either with donations, fancy private high schools, or even well-funded public schools (most kids there are ELC, which means they’re top of their high school rather than top overall across the state, to TRY to maintain some equity). The egalitarianism is strong there.
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1 hour ago, freesia said:
Please don’t beat yourself up. Make sure she is also looking for opportunities.
1000% agree with this. ❤️❤️ Honestly, this could be a very good thing for her—learning to take more control now will mean she’ll be much more equipped when she gets to college.
The one thing I wish we had done was get a much better start on the essays during the summer after junior year. This helped my DD tremendously: Hack the College Essay
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44 minutes ago, Roadrunner said:
if he goes to the southern one, we should do a get together with WTM moms down there!
😀👍
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My college kiddo has also thanked me several time for making her do AOPS. Says she can always reason backwards and figure out whatever math is in front of her.
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My DD got a research job on campus at the beginning of the school year, and she’ll be able to keep doing that over the summer. Her professor gave her a fantastic research project, but it’s totally unstructured—this will be her introduction to the ‘it’s up to you to get it done’ life of a grad student. I have no idea how it will go. I’m crossing my fingers for some big jumps in maturity over the summer.
Her voice teacher is on campus all summer too, so hopefully she can make real strides there too.
For next year, she’s stuck in a triple room again—I thought she was going to cry when she found out. Her school guarantees housing for all 4 years, but the options aren’t great. Off-campus is extraordinarily expensive, so she’ll have to bear it another year. 🤷♀️
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11 hours ago, SanDiegoMom said:
Good news today -- acceptances for BOTH DS and DD to UCSD, and DS got into UCLA! So happy for both of them -- my daughter was stressing after waitlist and rejection, and UCLA is the top choice for my son. So now we can breathe easy.
Congrats!!!!!! 🎉🎊🎈
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I don’t track her phone either. You’re not alone.
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I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I kind of, maybe agree with your kiddo. I’ve wondered how in the world universities are keeping up with the changes going on in CS right now, with all the upheaval and progress AI is bringing. Everything is changing so so fast!!
And I don’t buy that these professors are able to keep up. My DH is an engineering professor, and he has to train his students in Matlab, Python, Excel, etc. as part of that—with all the other pressures (publish or perish, department meetings, office hours, editing journal articles, politics, etc.), there’s NO WAY he can keep up with all the changes happening with regards to programming. Things are changing weekly!
So, if I were a really smart kid with tons of coding experience, I may be tempted to do a coding boot camp and just try to go for it. Even a year ago, I never would have thought that. But for the right kid, it feels to me like things are evolving too quickly to waste time on a 4 year degree right now. 🤷♀️
I am super risk averse, so this is out of character for me.
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5 hours ago, SanDiegoMom said:
My oldest went to UcLA and doesn’t regret it at all, was usually able to get all her classes, got involved in the Daily Bruin, but certain things she definitely felt were challenging. The noise level of having so many students on campus, having two other roommates and never having personal space, and having very little in the way of advising.
Ahhh, that makes sense. It definitely seems pretty darn crowded! ☹️
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Definitely check out the College of Creative Studies at UCSB, especially for math. @Roadrunner knows way more about it.
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I wouldn’t discount the UCs. DD started at UCLA over the summer and nothing feels sink-or-swim so far. The pre-med students are intense and competitive, but I think that can be true at any university. I think Caltech or Stanford would be WAY more sink or swim than anything I’ve seen so far.
The only hard part is staying on top of bureaucratic deadlines (registration, housing) since there’s not a lot of hand holding. But that has felt worth it to me since the price is low and the resources are absolutely tremendous, especially for a kid who eventually wants to go to grad school. (there’s also a pretty widely available middle-class scholarship)
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1 hour ago, Roadrunner said:
I would say well! We spent a night and met up with @rzberrymom!
Two musical, science-y homeschoolers running around in the non-stop California sunshine!! 😃
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My kids have had great luck starting with Duolingo and then moving to audiobooks in the new language, ideally with books they already know very well. Then movies/tv in the new language.
I find the audiobooks help them get completely immersed in the language, without the distraction of what’s happening onscreen.
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Summer volunteer service trip?
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She would like to go abroad. I was hoping someone may know of a legit organization.